After the 3-3 result in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, the confrontation between Real Madrid and Manchester City promises to be a real great game between, possibly, the two best teams in Europe. Both are in a good dynamic, so the duel will be exciting. Ancelotti's team is having a very good season, with players in great shape, and with a squad to which the Italian coach has managed to give balance, so they will try to give their best version to achieve another night for the team. memory and qualify for the semifinals.
As for Pep Guardiola's team, it comes after a great victory in the Premier League against Luton Town, in which the Spanish coach was able to rotate given the enormous depth of squad he has at his disposal. It is clear that the eleven that play will give the highest level, and will seek to propose a duel that allows them to have the ball to try to hurt the white defense, with the aim of reducing delivery errors as much as possible.
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After the several confrontations between the German centre-back against City, one thing has become clear, Rüdiger is the best option to stop the Norwegian titan. The Real Madrid defender only has one mission in these games, but he fulfills it like no other. The entire game at the mercy of what Haaland does and always sticking to him, this match will once again be important.
It is true that in the first leg the English midfielder was not in his best version, and since 2024 began, he is perhaps not making the differences that he did at the beginning of the year. But what better scenario than this to demonstrate why he was in the conversation of the best in the world at the beginning of the season.
The Brazilian will once again be the main cause of concern for the English team's defense, the skilled winger can do on a tile what others would never do on the entire field, and that is that his level is very high. Player made for these matches, if he seeks glory he must start with matches like this.
If there is an essential player at Manchester City, it is undoubtedly Rodri. One of the best in the world in general, and the best in his position, he is the one who marks City's first line of pressure, and the one who generates a large part of the beginning of the game and the team's eternal possessions, so a good Rodri is essential.
Little can be said about Foden that he did not demonstrate with his goal in the first leg, and the young English player is at a level this end of the season that is undoubtedly one of the best in the world. In addition, this season he is finding that shooting resource from the front that he is getting a lot of use out of.
And although many say that Haaland is missing, he is much more important to Pep than it seems at first glance. The fact that his quality and scoring ability is so high means that at least one defender, if not two, is always on top of him, so with his movements alone he is already opening holes and helping his team to generate superiority in other areas of the field.
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