Atlético invite Manchester City to Madrid expecting to upset a 1-0 first-leg shortfall, a Kevin De Bruyne goal having given the English heroes the edge against their Spanish partners in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals.
City, in the last eight for a fifth progressive season, struck the principal blow in the bind with 20 minutes left of the initial leg in Manchester, substitute Phil Foden setting up De Bruyne to beat Jan Oblak.
Atlético expelled City's nearby opponents Manchester United in the round of 16 yet are without a success in their last six UEFA Champions League home games (D4 L2), despite the fact that City have lost two of their four away games in this season's opposition.
City got through their quarter-last in 2020/21 after three progressive ends at that stage, while Atlético have not been past the last eight beginning around 2016/17. Be that as it may, their great disposal of Manchester United in this season's last 16 set up their second quarter-last debut in three years and by and large they have three total successes at this phase of the UEFA Champions League to the English club's two.
The primary leg of this tie was the sides' first experience, the only one of the four 2021/22 quarter-finals in which the groups had not recently met. It is likewise the only one of the last-eight ties not to include no less than one previous European hero.
This is City's 100th game in the UEFA Champions League, bunch stage to last. They are the 25th club to arrive at that achievement and the fifth from England.
The champs of this tie will play Real Madrid in the semi-finals.
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Atlético
• Atlético's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W6 L4:
2019/20 Leipzig L 1-2 (n)
2016/17 Leicester W 2-1 (1-0 h, 1-1 a)
2015/16 Barcelona W 3-2 (1-2 a, 2-0 h)
2014/15 Real Madrid L 0-1 (0-0 h, 0-1 a)
2013/14 Barcelona W 2-1 (1-1 a, 1-0 h)
1996/97 Ajax L 3-4 (1-1 a, 2-3 h)
1977/78 Club Brugge L 3-4 (0-2 a, 3-2 h)
1973/74 Crvena zvezda W 2-0 (2-0 a, 0-0 h)
1970/71 Legia Warszawa W 2-2 away goals (1-0 h, 1-2 a)
1958/59 Schalke W 4-1 (3-0 h, 1-1 a)
Atlético are in the European Cup quarter-finals for the eleventh time, and the 6th in nine seasons. They have won three of their last five quarter-finals.
Atleti oversaw just two successes in this season's gathering stage (D1 L3), both away from home - 2-1 at AC Milan on Matchday 2 and, vitally, 3-1 at Porto in their last apparatus. In Madrid they lost to Liverpool (2-3) and Milan (0-1) after a goalless draw against Porto on Matchday 1. Having been held 1-1 at home by Manchester United in the round of 16first leg, a 1-0 win in north-west England took them through.
Heroes of Spain for the eleventh time in 2020/21, Atlético completed two focuses in front of Real Madrid in the last Liga standings to allow them their second association title under Diego Simeone, who likewise directed them to the title in 2013/14.
This season was Atlético's 10th progressive UEFA Champions League bunch crusade and twelfth in general, level with Valencia; just Barcelona and Real Madrid (both 26 interests) have included more among Spanish sides.• All yet two of Atleti's 12 gathering appearances have stretched out into the knockout stages.
Last season, Simeone's side completed second in their part behind holders Bayern München, getting nine focuses. They were the main side to deny Bayern triumph in Group A, the 1-1 attract Madrid on Matchday 5 consummation the German club's record run of UEFA Champions League triumphs at 15.
Atlético then lost 1-0 against Chelsea in the primary leg of their round of 16 tie, a game that was played in Bucharest,before a 2-0 loss in London.
The Madrid club have now arrived at the quarter-finals or better in six of their last nine UEFA Champions League crusades - all under Simeone.
This season's success at Manchester United is one of just eight Atlético triumphs in their last 23 European matches (D57Club L10).
The main leg draw against Manchester United broadened Atlético's unbeaten spat home UEFA Champions League knockout matches to 15 (W9 D6), since a 3-2 misfortune to Ajax in the 1996/97 quarter-last second leg that fixed a 4-3aggregate loss.
Atleti have been triumphant in ten of their 13 two-legged knockout challenges against English groups, last season's total loss by Chelsea finishing a run of five progressive triumphs; just Derby County (1974/75 UEFA Cup) and Bolton Wanderers (2007/08 UEFA Cup) had recently killed them.
Atlético lost home (2-3) and away (0-2) to Liverpool in this season's gathering stage, completing each game with ten men,the first-leg draw against United thusly finishing a run of four progressive misfortunes against English clubs.
The Matchday 3 loss in Madrid against Liverpool was one of just two Atlético misfortunes in 16 visits from English clubs(W8 D6), the other a 2-1 opposite against Chelsea in 2017 in their first European game at the Estadio Metropolitano.
Atlético have won 12 and lost 11 of the UEFA contest ties in which they lost the away first leg, losing the latest against Real Madrid in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League semi-finals (0-3 a, 2-1 h). While going down 1-0in the away first leg their total record is W3 L3, two of the triumphs coming in the latest ties, both in the UEFA Champions League - against Schalke in the 2008/09 third qualifying cycle (4-0 h) and Bayer Leverkusen in the2014/15 round of 16 (1-0 h, 3-2 pens).
The last tie Atlético lost subsequent to tumbling to a 1-0 loss in the main away leg was against City's close neighbors Bolton (0-0 h) in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32. Bolton and Sion, who won 4-2 on total (1-0 h, 3-2 a) in the 1984/85UEFA Cup second round, are the main two of the 23 groups who beat Atlético in the home first leg to have stayed away from a second-leg rout in Madrid.
Atlético's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L4:
6-7 v Derby, 1974/75 UEFA Cup second round
1-3 v Fiorentina, 1989/90 UEFA Cup first round
1-3 v Villarreal, 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup last
3-2 v Bayer Leverkusen, 2014/15 UEFA Champions League round of 168-7 v PSV Eindhoven, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 163-5 v Real Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League last
Manchester City
• City's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W2 L3:
2020/21 Borussia Dortmund W 4-2 (2-1 h, 2-1 a)
2019/20 Lyon L 1-3 (n)
2018/19 Tottenham L 4-4 away goals (0-1 a, 4-3 h)
2017/18 Liverpool L 1-5 (0-3 a, 1-2 h)
2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain W 3-2 (2-2 a, 1-0 h)
City gathered 12 focuses in this season's gathering stage to complete a point clear of Paris, dominating every one of the three home matches however losing two of the three away, at Paris (0-2) and Leipzig (1-2) either side of a 5-1 triumph at Club Brugge. They then facilitated past Sporting CP in the round of 16 on account of a 5-0 win in Portugal and a goalless attract Manchester.
In 2020/21 City finished a show of three progressive quarter-last ends to going the entire way to the UEFAChampions League last just to lose 1-0 to Chelsea at Porto's Estádio do Dragão on 29 May.
City beat Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-0 a, 2-0 h), Borussia Dortmund (2-1 h, 2-1 a) and Paris (2-1 a, 2-0 h) enroute to the last. They had completed first in Group C with 16 places, keeping five clean sheets and yielding just a single goal - equalling the UEFA Champions League bunch stage record.
City have previously surrendered ten goals in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League, five a bigger number of than in their 13 games in last season's opposition, in spite of the fact that they have kept clean sheets in every one of the three knockout stage matches, having neglected to record any during the gathering stage.
Bosses of England for the seventh time in 2020/21, their third title in four seasons, City additionally asserted the English League Cup for the fourth season in succession and the eighth by and large.
This is the Cityzens' eleventh UEFA Champions League crusade; they have been associated with the gathering stage each season starting around 2011/12 and have now arrived at the knockout rounds in nine progressive missions.
Enthusiasm Guardiola's group have won 14 of their last 21 away European matches (D3 L4). The last two losses before the misfortune in Paris on Matchday 2 had both come in England; the past away game they had lost abroad was at Shakhtar Donetsk (1-2) on Matchday 6 of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League.
This season's triumph at Sporting made it five progressive away wins in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage and seven in succession outside England. Generally speaking, notwithstanding, City have won just eight of their 15 away knockout stage matches in the opposition (D1 L6).
City have dominated their last four matches against Spanish clubs, beating Atlético's city equals Real Madrid in the 2019/20UEFA Champions League round of 16 (2-1 a, 2-1 h) in their last such apparatuses before this tie.
That made City's record against Spanish clubs in two-legged knockout ties W2 L4 and finished a run of four progressive losses. It was additionally their first total triumph against Liga adversaries in the UEFA Champions League,having two times lost to Barcelona in the round of 16, in the two 2013/14 (1-4 total) and 2014/15 (1-3 agg), and Madrid in the 2015/16 semi-finals (0-1 agg).
The 2-1 win at Real Madrid in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg was just City's third triumph in their 11 visits to Spain (D1 L7). It was likewise their first knockout win away to a Spanish club in their 6th apparatus (D1L4).
City have won in six of the eight UEFA rivalry ties in which they won the home first leg, most as of late against Dortmund in last season's quarter-finals. Whenever the home first game has completed 1-0, their total record is W1 L1, beating Linfield on away goals in the 1970/71 European Cup Winners' Cup first cycle (1-2 a) yet losing to Juventus at a similar phase of the 1976/77 UEFA Cup (0-2 a). Their just other aggr
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