Real Madrid against Manchester City: Champions League Playoff Round, second leg – Live | Champions League

This game doesn’t need too much. It is Real Madrid against Manchester City, for heaven’s sake. It is Pep Guardiola, Barcelona legend, in Bernabéu. Carlo Ancelotti’s eyebrow is tempting. Apart from Real and City, no other club has put the old big ears in four years in four years, the Champions League Trophy. Do you want a story? You understood it.

It really doesn’t get bigger than that, especially on the playoff round. It seems bizarre that this is more of a qualification feature for the 16th round than a semi -finals (remember?) Or a final. But these are these two for an overwhelming league.

Of course, Real Madrid are favorites. They have this competition practically after offering six of the last eleven titles. You are at home and have a 3-2 lead in the first leg, which helps. But nobody believes that city is no longer. It could only take a moment, from Erling Haaland, a ridiculous cross from Kevin de Bruyne, a Mazy Phil Foden Dribble and Shot and the whole tie could turn.

The Barcelona team from Guardiola Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final in 2011 defeated as a coach on Bernabéu and put six past them in their most resonant victory in La Liga. After losing the first leg 3-2 last week, none of the results he secured here as City Manager would be enough to look through them, and after the first leg he said they had only a 1% chance. Carlo Ancelotti said that he hadn’t bought it and rejected the suggestions that Madrid’s chances were 99%and claimed that he would ask Guardiola if he really thought that his hopes were so small.

The mind games are in full swing. It promises to be an absolutely delicious night of the association football.

Start: 8 p.m. GMT, 9 p.m. in Madrid.