Champions League Preview: Real Madrid VS Manchester City – Top-of-the-League Titans Collide!
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- Real Madrid and Manchester City have met 14 times in the UEFA club competition, with Madrid winning five and City four. They have met in each of the last four seasons in the knockout rounds of the Champions League. Last season, Madrid eliminated City in the knockout phase play-offs via a 3-2 first leg win in Manchester and 3-1 home success.
- The Merengues have won 13 of their last 14 Champions League group stage/league phase matches at home (L1).
- Eduardo Camavinga (23 years and 30 days) could become the second youngest French player to reach 50 appearances in the Champions League proper after Kylian Mbappé (22 years and 339 days).
- Kylian Mbappé has achieved his best-ever tally in a Champions League campaign with nine goals and has scored seven goals in seven Champions League appearances against Man City, including a hat-trick in Madrid's 3-1 home win in last season's knockout phase play offs.
- City have won six of their last seven Champions League group stage/league phase matches against Spanish opposition (L1), including the last four.
- Erling Haaland has scored nine goals in his previous nine appearances against Spanish teams in the Champions League proper and has struck in his last five starts in the competition proper, netting seven goals.
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Location: Madirid, Spain
Stadium: Bernabéu
Date: Wednesday 10 December
Local Kick-off Time: 9 p.m. UTC+1
Referee: Clement Turpin(FRA)
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Real Madrid Team News
Four points below Barcelona in the La Liga title race, boasting just two wins from their last seven games in all tournaments and suffering their first home loss of the season on Sunday evening, Real Madrid have arguably hit crisis territory by their lofty standards.
Everything that could have gone wrong against Celta Vigo did go wrong for Los Blancos, who saw their defensive injury crisis worsen, attackers miss several promising chances and no fewer than three players handed red cards in a Bernabeu implosion.
From overseeing 13 wins from his first 14 games in charge to just two from his last 630 minutes of football, Alonso's future in the Spanish capital has inevitably been called into question, as dire results succeed reports of alleged player discontent.
However, the ex-Liverpool midfielder will undoubtedly be in control of the reins for the visit of Man City in the Champions League, where the 15-time winners have collected a pleasing 12 points from 15 on offer, although they only just scraped by Olympiacos 4-3 on matchday five courtesy of a Kylian Mbappe quadruple.
Nevertheless, earlier victories over Juventus and Marseille at the Bernabeu means that Real head into Wednesday's blockbuster with a 100% record in UCL home games this season, and 13 of their last 14 group stage/league-phase matches on home soil have ended in victory.
Manchester City Team News
Tackling Alonso's current club after being outwitted by Alonso's former club, Man City have their own wrongs to right from a 2-0 home defeat, succumbing to Alejandro Grimaldo and Patrik Schick's goals against Bayer Leverkusen on matchday five.
After overseeing the Citizens' first Champions League loss of the season, Pep Guardiola - who made a staggering 10 changes for that fixture - conceded that he may have gone too far with his alterations, especially as his side are now outside the automatic last-16 places.
Collecting 10 points from the first 15 on offer, the ninth-placed Citizens trail the coveted top eight places by virtue of an inferior goal difference to Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon and Chelsea, and results on Tuesday could bump them further down the rankings.
However, Guardiola's men have responded to their Leverkusen loss with a three-game Premier League-winning sequence, conquering Leeds United and Fulham in multi-goal thrillers before a straightforward 3-0 success over Sunderland on Saturday.
All too familiar with the team in white, Man City are aiming to avoid a third straight loss to Real Madrid after last season's 6-3 aggregate beating in the knockout round playoffs, but they have won just one of their seven previous visits to the Bernabeu - a 2-1 triumph in February 2020.
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