Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester City: Jack Grealish says Man City 'can't stay' at home but who will win?

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“If Haaland can’t get you, De Bruyne will”
In the 90th minute of the second game, City were ahead by two goals in total against Real Madrid last season but lost spectacularly.

Rodrygo scored. Two more in extra time and Karim Benzema scored a penalty in extra time, giving Spain a 6-5 lead. 49-7 on aggregate, the gap is clearly in favor of Pep Guardiola’s three-time winner.
“At Etihad we feel unstoppable,” added Manchester City striker Grealish.

“We’re here to win, but scoring a goal in a place like this shows our character. In the end, I think it was a fair result. They had a chance, so did we.”

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‘We are quite properly at prevailing finals’

Within the opposing camp, however, real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois says the defending champions can not be discounted.
they have got already convincingly crushed Liverpool and Chelsea faraway from domestic in this season’s opposition.
“next week will be like a final, and we are pretty exact at prevailing finals,” stated the Belgian. “hopefully we will mentalise it like that even though it is at city and it’ll be hard for us.”
metropolis’s preceding eu knockout ties to end in 1-1 away draws within the first leg each saw them progress to the subsequent spherical.
meanwhile, real have advanced from just of their nine Champions League knockout stage ties whilst failing to win the first leg at domestic – each of these have been in opposition to Manchester United (1999-00 and 2012-thirteen).

“Real Madrid has nothing to lose”

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, former Marseille and England footballer Chris Waddle said he was struggling to find a real favorite.

“Good result for City. But a good result? Will Real Madrid be willing to go to Etihad because they have nothing to lose?” Waddle said.
“City controlled most of the game. I think they can be a little tougher in the last three, I think they can get a better result than that.

” You have to say Real Madrid knows how to control the game. Sometimes their football is pretty good.

Former Celtic manager Neil Lennon added: “I think Pep Guardiola will be happy with the result and the performance. Everyone expects City to win these games 2-0 and 3-0 but that is not true because they are playing against a top team.
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“Like Advantage City” – What Do You Think?

Opposition social media is leaning towards home as experts wait for Madrid to approach when they head to Manchester on Wednesday, May 17th (20:00 BST):

Paul: Doesn’t the city have many excuses for not winning the Champions? League and even before tonight, but now they are outside of Real Madrid, they have no excuses and they are sure to win the championship. They definitely can’t bottle it this time…

Shamshad: Etihad seems to be better for Manchester City. But don’t forget what happened in the last 10 minutes.

Amrul: Is this a good result for the City when we don’t have a far destination? All Real Madrid had to do was counter or stay at 0-0 and take the penalty shootout.