The highlighting of the Champions League playoffs is undoubtedly in the heavyweight category of Real Madrid with Manchester City, but the 15-plow winners of the Champions League will have more than their opponents who will take care of the first on Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium.
The veterans champions were organized in the early stages of the renewed first phase format before they included style when it was really important for the cruisers next to RB Salzburg and Stadea Brest.
These two victories confirmed the place of Madrid in the Play-off with the knockout, with the hope that the top eighth end of the prematurely completed defeat of Lille, Liverpool and AC Milan would end.
A little would be foreseen City To need a win in the last match just to seal the top 24 ending, but that’s exactly what the trouble Pep Guardiola found himself when Club Brugge was rocking in Manchester.
After heading half -time, City came out of energy and demanded a 3-1 victory -The Champions League of Champions League draws them with a Madrid equalizer we are used to seeing the semi -final phase.
Madrid Whether they are favorites for progress, thanks to the continuation of the City fight in all competitions, but Carla Ancelotti plans for a double leg could be suspended by suspensions with key players. Going to the first meeting in Etihad on Tuesday, Jude Bellingham, Luka Modric, Aurelien Tchouamen, Eduardo Camavind and Endrick threatening to miss the return fixture.
Quintet all picked up two Champions League Reservations to this point and will be banned for the other leg if they choose another caution – Ancelotti walks the same tegraps and will not be allowed on the Santiago Bernabeu Touched line if it is in Manchester.
Bellingham is the most prominent player in danger, with important goals in important times that are central to the success of Madrid in big games. Modric continues to defy the time, meanwhile, looking at anything except 39 years, while continuing to control games in the heart of the midfielder.
Tchoumeni and Camavind are invited to help the Madrid crisis of defense injuries in recent weeks and months, and the talented French duo may be most likely reserved with respect to their combat roles on the team.
Any forced absence for Endrick would not be catastrophic at this stage, because the Brazilian teen still finds his feet in the Spanish capital, finding himself on the outskirts of the first team that plays underestimation like Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo.
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