After having resisted against Athletico Madrid in the quarterfinals (1-0 and 0-0), the band of Josep Sala Guardiola will find on its road the other Madrid formation ( Real) that it already faced in this same phase, during the 2015-2016 season where the Spanish had won on the whole of the two games (1-0 and 0-0).
For this seventh confrontation in Ldc, the second semi-final after the one of the 2015-2016 season, Manchester City will have to redouble its efforts to overcome this new Madrid stage in order to reach the final, for the second time in a row. The citizens, who failed last year in the final against Chelsea (1-0), are desperate to lift the cup with the big ears this year. But to achieve this, they will have to eliminate Real Madrid, who had taken them out at this very stage of the competition, during the 2015-2016 season.
As for the men of the Italian coach, Carlo Ancelotti, their main mission is to put a fourteenth trophy in the well-stocked repertoire of the Casa blanca. Having suffered enough during the eighth round against PSG and in the quarters against Chelsea to get to this phase, Real will have to be wary of Guardiola’s men who has already humiliated them by a two-way ticket, in the last 16, during the season (2019-2020) on identical scores in the first and second leg (2-1 and 2-1). For this new double confrontation, forbidden to the cardiac, the two formations already know what to expect!
The last confrontations in Ldc.
2012-2013: group stage, first leg: Real (3)-City (2) / return: City (1)-Real (1)
2015-2016: in semi-final, first leg: Real (1)-City (0), second leg: City (0)-Real-(0)
2019-2020:in the round of 16, first leg: City(2)-Real(1), second leg: Real(1)-City(2)
Results: 6 matches
2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses for both teams.
7 goals scored on each side and 7 conceded.