This season's Champions League semi-final is about to start, Manchester City will play at home against Real Madrid, these 2 teams in the Champions League in recent years, although not an old opponent, but they are not very strange to each other, one is the Champions League upstart, although it has not completed the championship, but with strong strength, Manchester City is still the most optimistic team in the Champions League. The other is the most successful team in the history of the Champions League, although the last time they won the title was a few years ago, but Real Madrid's Champions League results in recent years are not ugly.
The game has been played to this point, the so-called background theory has no meaning at all, and the two sides are basically competing for willpower and talent at this stage. For Manchester City, they have to continue their consistent style of oppressive football, while Real Madrid should compete with this difficult opponent from experience.
In fact, in recent years, Manchester City, in the Champions League, usually encountered very small challenges, which mainly refers to the fact that this team, whether in the group stage or the first half of the knockout stage, has rarely encountered really strong teams, although the group stage and Paris Saint-Germain are divided into a group this season, but the same group of Leipzig and Brugge is too weak for these 2 teams. Entering the knockout round, the opponents encountered by the team are not strong, the first round of knockout matches against Portuguese sports, these 2 teams are not awe at all, and facing Atletico, although they have encountered a little trouble, it is more of an opponent's physical foul than pure football, so Manchester City has been very easy along the way.
In contrast, Real Madrid's road to promotion is much more difficult and has a greater gold content. In the group stage, with Real Madrid in a group of Inter, there is no difficulty in qualifying, but in the knockout round, Real Madrid is facing the two super teams of Paris and Chelsea in a row, but Real Madrid shows the tenacity and oldness of a really strong team and a giant team when facing these 2 opponents who do not seem to be losing to themselves. Although most of the players are very old, with real veterans such as Benzema and Modric, Real Madrid can still eliminate opponents despite the difficult process, and the game process and scenes and the results are satisfactory.
From the perspective of pure strength, these 2 teams actually have certain advantages over Manchester City, but at this stage of the Champions League game, it is indeed more competitive to compete with the experience and talent of the players, and at this point, Manchester City and Real Madrid have a certain gap. Manchester City's overall strength and ability to balance players are arguably the strongest in football today, but players like Benzema and Modric in real Madrid's squad, who can really change the game in an instant, are key factors that cannot be ignored.
The two teams have met 6 times in the Champions League, and since the rise of Manchester City is only a matter of recent years, the two teams have not played each other much in the history of the Champions League, with the results of both sides being 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, and even the number of goals is the same, each with 7 goals. Among them, the 2019-20 Champions League quarter-finals 2 legs are the last 2 meetings between the two teams, of which Manchester City has completed a double against Real Madrid, but in the second leg, Real Madrid defender Varane has made consecutive big mistakes undercover. Overall, the Manchester City advantage at home in this game is still very large, and small wins should not be too much of a problem.