The MANchester City and Real Madrid’s demonstration is a delicacy for the Champions League playoffs starting on Tuesday. For the fourth year, teams have been in a row.
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The first round of the renewed football champions league could hardly have had a greater show. The previous two -seasons champions Manchester City and Real Madrid were awarded against each other and the teams will face the first match on Tuesday.
The City’s exceptionally poor tone is a particularly interesting match. And not only a tune, but a depression that lasted for almost the entire season. In the previous Premier League match, City received a 1-5-starring owl from Arsenal, and over the weekend, the third Leyton Orient kept the City in the FA Cup. Its match Pep Guardiola At least the coaching group turned himself.
Even in the Champions League, City did not play itself in the last match against Club Brugge, even after the first episode, in a defeat and in danger to fall.
When Real Madrid has to march to the field Kylian Mbappen, Vinicius junior, Rodrygon and Jude Bellingham A similar attack quartet, is a winged and shaky defense of Manchester City, perhaps the toughest challenge of the season.
– It is impossible to keep them in control for 90 or 180 minutes. I have nothing new to say about them. They are special, Guardiola said at a pre -match press conference.
The question marks also float around the Madrid people, even though the team leads the Spanish league and the summer mega-acquisition Mbappe has found a great game and goal.
Namely, injuries at the defense end discipline with a hard hand. So hard that Ancelotti described the situation under the match “Full of an emergency”. Dani Carvajal, Antonio Rüdiger, David Alaba and Eder milita are all on the side of the opening part.
And that’s not all, the last one from the team that traveled to Manchester fell off the captain Lucas vazquez.
One of the only one of the central defenders in the game, the topper Jesus Vallejowho has played exactly ten minutes in all competitions throughout the season. Mid -field players who are capable of defense are still available Aurelie’s tchouamen and Federico Valverden in terms of.
– I have no problem with Vallejo. His contract is about to end, so I wanted to give opportunities to younger players, Ancelotti said.
City and Real are now in the Champions League for the fourth season. The previous three times the winner of the match pair is also crowned as the winner of the entire Champions League.
– This has become a modern classic, and I think the most of the Champions League’s most battle couple. Playing against City always causes headaches. It is surprising that we are already facing at this stage, but it is a fault for both teams, Ancelotti said at a press conference.
City slipping out of the Premier League Championship and numerous losses have not been affected by Ancelott’s thinking.
– City is still one of the best teams in Europe and has the best coach in the Champions League. This is the hardest match we can have, Ancelotti said.
Injuries have also gotten the city. Especially last year’s best player in the world Rodi has left an invaluable opening in the midfield and the balance of the whole team.
– We have been like a machine in recent years, but this year the balance has disappeared. But we will come back. It would be important for the club to continue in the Champions League. I know how we play against Real, but there is still thinking about the line -up, Guardiola said.
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