Entering this week, the high-profile Champions League 1/4 finals are about to start, the first leg of the 4 games are all giants, but only Real Madrid VS Manchester City is the battle between the champions, this game will start at 3 o'clock in the morning on April 10, Beijing time, 14 crown winner Real Madrid sat at the Bernabeu Stadium to face the defending champion Manchester City, CCTV CCTV5 channel live broadcast. Judging from the past encounters, Real Madrid has a clear home advantage, beating Manchester City 3 times in 5 games, and playing the first leg well has the hope of advancing to the semi-finals for 4 consecutive seasons.
In the group stage of the Champions League this season, Real Madrid and Manchester City won all 6 rounds and easily qualified for the first place, and then in the round of 16, Real Madrid eliminated Leipzig with a thrilling aggregate score of 2-1, and Manchester City easily eliminated Copenhagen with an aggregate score of 6-2.
Before the draw for the quarter-finals, many opinions from the outside world predicted Real Madrid vs Manchester City, and the two favorites really met in advance. According to statistics, in the last five seasons, the two teams have met for the fourth time, especially in the last two knockout rounds, each side eliminated the opponent once, and finally won the Champions League.
At present, the two teams have met in the past 10 times, Real Madrid has 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, scoring 14 goals and conceding 17 goals, and all 3 victories have come at home, as follows:
In 2012-13, Real Madrid beat Manchester City 3-2 at home, in 2016-17, they beat Manchester City 1-0 at home, in 2020-21, they lost 2-1 at home, in 2021-22, they narrowly beat Manchester City 2-1 at home, and in 2022-23, they drew 1-1 at home.
Now sitting at home again, Real Madrid is full of confidence, on the one hand, the team's heritage, on the other hand, Manchester City's dominance this season has declined, so that Ancelotti is not afraid of Guardiola.
According to statistics, in the past 10 meetings between the two coaches, Ancelotti has a record of 3 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses, and if you exclude the record of 4 defeats in the four meetings between the two during his time in charge of Everton, then the record against Pep Guardiola is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Compared with Manchester City's recent encounter with the devil's schedule, Real Madrid ushered in good news in this regard, the last game was on April 1, and then played in the Champions League knockout match with Manchester City, with 9 days in between, with a physical advantage, plus sitting at home, it is also expected to be able to overturn Manchester City again and lay the foundation for entering the final four.
Real Madrid have reached the last four of the Champions League in the past three seasons, and of course Manchester City has done the same, and now the two teams meet in the quarter-finals early, which means that only one team has advanced to the semi-finals for four consecutive seasons, and the other team has exited early.
According to German transfer statistics, Real Madrid's whole team is worth 1.04 billion euros, and Manchester City's whole team is worth 1.27 billion euros, adding up to more than 2.3 billion euros, and it is also the most expensive matchup in the Champions League so far this season.