In the 1/8 finals of the Champions League playoffs, Real Madrid will host Manchester City. The game will take place at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on February 26th. The meeting starts at 23:00 Moscow time. Forecast for Real Madrid – Manchester City.
“Real”
In the current season of the Champions League in a group with “Real” PSG, Brugge and Galatasaray also played. In six matches in the Euro arena, the Madrid team managed to score 11 points.
5 points behind Parisians, she took the second place in the quartet A table. During the group stage, the Spanish grand managed to score 14 goals, and missed this club 8 goals.
The start in the new Champions League was a failure for Madrid. In France, the team of Zinedine Zidane flew “Paris Saint-Germain” (0: 3). And in the second meeting “Real” on the “Santiago Bernabeu” painted the world with “Brugge” (2: 2).
Then, Blancos twice prevailed over Galatasaray (1: 0; 6: 0), after which they tied with PSG (2: 2). In the last match, “creamy” dealt with “Brugge” (3: 1).
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Domestic affairs Real Madrid started to go wrong. More recently, the team of Zinedine Zidane said goodbye to the King’s Cup, having flown home from Real Sociedad (3: 4), and in the last matches in the Spanish championship, frequent misfires led to the loss of leadership in the standings. At the moment, the “Royal Club” is second, behind Barca two points.
Having recovered from the relegation from the Spanish Cup, Madrid on February 9 in Pamplona, having missed the first, managed to defeat Osasuna in the end (4: 1). On the 16th of the current month, the Blancos at Santiago Bernabeu earned only 1 point in the confrontation with Celta, which is fighting for survival this season.
The match with the club from Vigo ended with a score of 2: 2. And the other day “Real” away was defeated by Levante (0: 1).
“Manchester city”
The English team from Manchester confidently finished first in the Group C standings. In the quartet with Atalanta, Shakhtar and Dynamo Zagreb, she earned 14 points.
This team managed to get ahead of the closest pursuer by 7 points. In six matches of the group stage “sky blue” managed to score 16 goals, and they conceded only four goals.
In the first Euro Cup match of the current season “Manchester city” Away easily defeated Shakhtar (3: 1), after which the wards of Pep Guardiola rather modestly coped with Zagreb Dynamo (2: 0). A little later, the English team defeated Atalanta (5: 1).
In the second leg in Milan, the rivals split the world (1: 1). The standoff with Shakhtar ended in a draw (1: 1). On December 11, the “townspeople” defeated Dynamo Zagreb (4: 1).
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Amid news of removal from European competition and transfer to the lower league “Manchester city” fighting for the country cups. In the Premier League, the Guardiola team is currently second with 57 points in reserve.
More recently, the “sky blue” went to Manchester United in the League Cup, beating the team Sulscher in the sum of two meetings – 3: 2. During this period, “City” managed to knock out “Fulham” from the FA Cup (4-0).
And in the first February game in the Premier League “Manchester city” lost points in the confrontation with Tottenham Hotspur (2: 0). Two weeks later, Pep Guardiola’s team at Etihad calmly sorted out West Ham (2-0). In the last match to date, this team minimally beat Leicester (1: 0).
Forecast and Rates
The victory of Real Madrid in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League is estimated at 2.84, the bookies give a 3.84 odds for a draw, and 2.42 for a Manchester City victory.
Madrid will not be helped in this fight by Marco Asensio, who has been in the infirmary since the summer, as well as Eden Hazard, who will again miss two months. Among the losses “citizens” can be identified Leroy Sana’a. Sterling’s participation is still in question.
Both clubs this season are highly motivated in European competitions, especially the Guardiola team, which runs the risk of saying goodbye to the Champions League for several years. Our prediction and bet on the match is a total of more than 2.5 with a coefficient of 1.65.
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