Manchester City and Liverpool have joined Real Madrid and Villarreal in this season's UEFA Champions League semi-finals. Structure, details, vital participants and why they can win it - UEFA.com surveys every semi-finalist.
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Real Madrid and Villarreal endured to the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday with their last-four rivals affirmed as Manchester City and Liverpool individually the next evening.
MANCESTER CITY
Why they can win it
Barely any groups are fit for managing City's metronomic passing and tenacious squeezing. Their solidarity inside and out is unmatched across Europe, while their strive after a lady Champions League win stays as savage as could be expected. All things considered, they could never have gone a lot nearer in Porto last May.
Record v elimination round rivals Real Madrid: P6 W2 D2 L2 F7 A7
Uefa positioning: 2
European Cup best: other participants (2020/21)
Keep going season: other participants (L 0-1 v Chelsea)
Last elimination round: 2020/21 (W 4-1 agg v Paris)
This season
Record: W6 D2 L2 F24 A10
Top scorer: Riyad Mahrez (6)
Quarterfinals: 1-0 agg v Atlético
Round of 16: 5-0 agg v Sporting CP
Bunch A: champs
Forebodingly for City's adversaries, there is still opportunity to get better. The Group A winners lost two of their three games from home in the segment - though barely - and just kept their most memorable clean sheet of this season's opposition in their last-16 first-leg win in Lisbon. They have now kept four in succession after that restricted total accomplishment against Atlético, which features how, on top of their much-praised going after characteristics, they can safeguard with real flexibility as well.
How they play
City play the Guardiola way: a group set up in a profoundly liquid 4-3-3 who need to overwhelm the ball and beat groups with the speed of their passing and development. They shield in a high square and press the resistance with force, hoping to hurt them on lightning-quick turnovers. Also, to wrap things up they are honored with spectacularly gifted people like Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden, who have such mindfulness, inventiveness and abilities of execution.
Vital participant: Kevin De Bruyne
The 30-year-old rascal passed 250 appearances for the club last season and stays a supernatural figure in their midfield notwithstanding the wealth around him. He persevered through something of a sluggish beginning to the mission however appears to be getting back to his best, making a propensity for scoring in key games since the finish of the gathering stage remembering his triumphant strike for the quarterfinals.
Coach: Pep Guardiola
One of the most enlivened coaches in the game, the 51-year-old won this opposition two times with Barcelona. He has scooped three association titles each in charge of the Catalan club, Bayern and City.
Guardiola has now arrived at his 10th Champions League elimination round - outperforming the eight of old enemy José Mourinho.
REAL MADRID
Why they can win it
On the off chance that they can turn that tie against Paris around, against all the chances, and afterward endure such a surge from holders Chelsea, nothing is past them. Karim Benzema is as his life and with Vinicíus Júnior offering sparkling help, as well as the admired Toni Kroos and Luka Modric calling the shots, who might dare preclude the 13-time champs doing what they specialize in?
Record v elimination round rivals Man. City: P6 W2 D2 L2 F7 A7
Uefa positioning: 5
European Cup best: winners(1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1965/66, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18)
Keep going season: elimination rounds (L 1-3 agg v Chelsea)
Keep going elimination round: 2020/21 (L 1-3 agg v Chelsea)
This season
Record: W7 D0 L3 F22 A9
Top scorer: Karim Benzema (12)
Quarterfinals: 5-4 agg v Chelsea
Round of 16: 3-2 agg v Paris
Bunch D: victors
How can it be the case to lose at home to Sheriff, and afterward arrive at the last four with an immense exhibition against Paris followed by a legendary tie against Chelsea? The course map makes sense of. Madrid won nothing last season and, by their own affirmation, are frantic for prizes at home and in Europe this time round. The 5-0 away triumph over Shakhtar reset Madrid's GPS in the gathering stage. Rout in Paris then, at that point, did likewise - prompting an alternate high-squeezing approach which received further benefit at Stamford Bridge.
How they play
Working inside a 4-3-3 layout, Madrid have a solid spine beginning with Thibaut Courtois and going through focus back Éder Militão to the accomplished midfield triplet of Casemiro, Modric and Kroos with all that specialized quality, vision and experience. And afterward you get to the in-structure Benzema front and center - an expert of artistic expressions of focus forward play. They additionally have the energy of progressively persuasive more youthful players like Vinícius Júnior and Federico Valverde - as well as that theoretical ability that gets them out of the most impenetrable of spots.
Central member: Karim Benzema
Many individuals pondered where Real Madrid's goals would come from when Cristiano Ronaldo left in 2018, however the France forward has more than got down to business to turn into the club's charm. He scored Madrid's 1 000th European Cup goal against Shakhtar prior this mission then pivoted their last-16 bind with Paris with a final part full go-around prior to striking the unequivocal blow in additional time against the Blues to make it four goals in the tie.
Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
The manager who directed Madrid to 'La Décima' in 2014 returned the previous summer briefly stretch in control. He is one of only three coaches to have won the European Cup/Champions League on three events.
Did you be aware?
Madrid are in the European Cup elimination rounds for the 31st time, 11 a bigger number of than some other club. They have won four of their last six ties at this stage.
LIVERPOOL
Why they can win it
The closeness to the 2018/19 Champions League-winning effort is that locally Liverpool are pursuing a widespread Manchester City, and it appears to be that having such a goal generally frees the best once again from Jürgen Klopp's group. Whenever they hit excellent condition, and all that works as one, it's difficult to see anybody adapting to them. Assuming you include the Anfield factor, the sky is the limit.
Record v elimination round rivals Villarreal: P2 W1 D0 L1 F3 A1
Uefa positioning: 3
European Cup best: victors (1976/77, 1977/78, 1980/81, 1983/84, 2004/05, 2018/19)
Keep going season: quarterfinals (L 1-3 agg v Real Madrid)
Last elimination round: 2018/19 (W 4-3 agg v Barcelona)
This season
Record: W8 D1 L1 F25 A11
Top scorer: Mohamed Salah (8)
Quarterfinals: 6-4 agg v Benfica
Round of 16: 2-1 agg v Inter
Bunch B: victors
Crusade up until this point
Liverpool have confronted tough opposition - for sure, of their adversaries up until this point, just Atlético have always lost the opposition. This makes it considerably more amazing that they sport a close wonderful record: ten games and only one misfortune in the second leg against Inter. Truth be told, it was just the Nerazzurri who reliably grieved Klopp's side, yet like any incredible group they figured out how to win.
How they play
Klopp seldom veers off from his attempted and tried 4-3-3 development - a framework that has served the Reds superbly well since the German's appearance in 2015. Their extreme focus squeezing has been refined in late seasons - with a little assistance from shrewd acquisitions like Diogo Jota and Luis Díaz - yet it stays similarly as powerful. At their best, they are seemingly Europe's best side.
Key player: Mohamed Salah
The Egypt forward has been the substance of this Liverpool side since showing up from Roma in 2017. A star at Basle, he initially arrived in England with Chelsea in 2014 yet has demonstrated a significant ability on Merseyside, his speed, knowledge and completing the process of assisting him with packing 33 Champions League goals for the club.
Coach: Jürgen Klopp
Liverpool supervisor beginning around 2015, Klopp directed the Reds to mainland magnificence in 2018/19 and to their first English title in quite a while the following season. A striker turned safeguard at Mainz, he lifted two Bundesliga titles with Dortmund prior to going to Anfield.
Did you be aware?
Liverpool have been European bosses multiple times - more than some other English group. That is however many titles as Bayern, with Milan and Real Madrid the main clubs to have won more.
VILLARREAL
Why they can win it
The Yellow Submarine probably won't be liked by quite a few people, yet they showed the exact thing they're made of when they won the Uefa Europa League last season. Whenever you toss in the reality they've proactively taken out Juventus and Bayern, no less, the sky is the limit now they are in just their absolute second Champions League elimination round.
Record v elimination round adversaries Liverpool: Liverpool P2 W1 D0 L1 F1 A3
Uefa positioning: 18
European Cup best: elimination rounds (2005/06, 2021/22)
Last season: Europa League victors (1-1, W11-10p v Man. United)
Keep going elimination round: 2005/06 (L 0-1 agg v Arsenal)
This season
Record: W5 D3 L2 F18 A11
Top scorer: Arnaut Danjuma (6)
Quarterfinals: 2-1 agg v Bayern
Round of 16: 4-1 agg v Juventus
Bunch F: other participants
Degenerate in the gathering stage, monster slayers in the knockouts. Unai Emery's side frantically missed the harmed Gerard Moreno for a large part of the mission, however you need to give them credit for getting this far with their magic goalscorer diminished to an appearance job for huge parts. Their development play merited definitely more than to scratch out of their gathering, and taking out Juve in the last 16 and Bayern in the quarterfinals is an admonition to the remainder of Europe.
How they play
In an inflexible 4-4-2, with Emery focusing on a strong and all around penetrated group. Raúl Albiol drives a back line which establishes the groundwork for a side that has excelled at welcoming their adversaries on to them prior to progressing rapidly from defense into assault.
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