In the early morning of April 27, the first leg of the Champions League semi-final will kick off, and Premier League champions Manchester City will take the lead and sit at home to meet the visiting La Liga giants Real Madrid. One is the world football giants with 13 Champions League titles, and the other is the Upstart of the Premier League, which can be regarded as a collision of the new and old orders of world football. At the same time, for Real Madrid, Guardiola and Ancelotti, it is all a journey of revenge.
Prior to this, the two teams had met a total of 2 times in the Champions League knockout rounds. In the 2015/16 Champions League semi-finals, Manchester City, who reached the top four of the Champions League for the first time, met with the Galaxy Real Madrid in the narrow road, and in the first leg Manchester City sat at home to draw 0-0 with Real Madrid, which C Ronaldo was absent, but moved to the Bernabeu in the second leg, although goalkeeper Johart completed 5 heroic saves, the family was difficult to defend, and was finally defeated by Fernando's oolong ball.
Of course, at that time, Manchester City was still a new champions in the Champions League, and it was already a good result to lose out. And when the two teams meet again in the Champions League knockout rounds in the 2019/20 season, the last laugh becomes Manchester City. Although Guardiola's Manchester City career has never won the Champions League and is often questioned because of the whole work, guardiola's platoon arrangement against Real Madrid in the two legs of that season was quite bright, including the pressing of Aguero on the bench to let Bernardo Silva and De Bruyne partner the front, and the Brazilian striker Jesus playing the left forward. In the end, Manchester City reached the quarter-finals with two 2-1 doubles. Zidane, who entered the palace for the second time, no longer has the magic of three consecutive Champions League titles.
Therefore, this time they meet again, real Madrid want to repay the revenge of being killed twice last season. This season, they have killed the Ligue 1 giants Paris and the defending champions Chelsea, and the tenacity of the team and the explosive state of the veteran Benzema are the biggest magic weapons for them to continue to soar.
Real Madrid want revenge, and So do Manchester City, but this time they are fighting for their manager, Pep Guardiola. In his coaching career, Guardiola and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti have only met once in the Champions League, which was the 2013/14 Champions League semi-final. It was Guardiola's first season in charge of Bayern and his side was once again in the semi-finals as the defending Champions League champions. As a result, after the Bernabeu was defeated 0-1 by Benzema's fatal blow in the first leg, Bayern, who returned to the home of Hoho, was brutally washed by the opponent 4-0, and Ramos's fatal two-consecutive strike in the 4th minute plus C Ronaldo's two-time scoring made Guardiola have no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.
In fact, in the 3 seasons of coaching Bayern, Guardiola not only won 3 consecutive Bundesliga titles, but also 2 German Cup titles, 1 European Super Cup and 1 Club World Cup, the record is not bad, but in the Champions League, especially the bloodbath of Real Madrid in the two games, so that Guardiola's trip to Germany does not look perfect. This time he encountered An Shuai again, and revenge was his only thought.
However, An Shuai is also an out-and-out avenger. Although he has humiliated Guardiola in the Champions League, in the past two seasons, his Coach Everton has not lost the slightest temper against Manchester City, who is managed by Guardiola, losing all 4 premier league games, scoring only 2 goals but conceding 12 goals. Now, Ancelotti, who led Real Madrid to make a comeback, is no longer Amon, and if he can kill Pep Guardiola's team again in the Champions League semi-finals, it will naturally be a beautiful thing.