This will be the seventh group between Manchester City and Real Madrid in European rivalry, with each of the past six coming in the Uefa Champions League starting around 2012-13. Subsequent to neglecting to win the initial four (D2 L2), the Citizens won the two legs in the Round of 16 against them in this opposition in 2019-20.
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Real Madrid haven't won any of their past three excursions to confront Manchester City in European contest (D2 L1), with the latest two likewise coming in the knockout phases of the Uefa Champions League - 0-0 in the 2015-16 elimination round first leg and 1-2 in the 2019-20 Round of 16 second leg.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has disposed of Real Madrid from the knockout phases of the Uefa Champions League on two past events, beating them 3-1 on total in the 2010-11 elimination rounds with Barcelona and 4-2 on total in the 2019-20 Round of 16 with Manchester City. Guardiola is hoping to turn into the principal director to dispose of Real Madrid from the Uefa Champions League on three events.
Real Madrid have just won one of their last six away games against English groups in the Uefa Champions League (D2 L3), albeit that triumph came against Chelsea recently. No group has at any point beaten two different English sides from home in the knockout stages in a solitary Uefa Champions League.
Pep Guardiola (four successes) and Carlo Ancelotti (two successes) have confronted each other on six past events as restricting chiefs - every one of the four of Guardiola's successes came against Ancelotti's Everton (three in the Premier League, one in the FA Cup), while the Italian's two triumphs came in the Uefa Champions League elimination rounds in 2013-14, with his Real Madrid side beating Bayern Munich 5-0 on total.
Carlo Ancelotti has won 74% of his games responsible for Real Madrid in the Uefa Champions League (26/35), the best success per centage for any director with somewhere around 20 games for a solitary club in the opposition.
Raheem Sterling has gotten 24 goals for Manchester City in the Uefa Champions League. Assuming that he scores in this game, he would overwhelm Paul Scholes (24) and trail just Wayne Rooney (30) for the most goals scored by an English player for an English group in the opposition's set of experiences.
Karim Benzema has scored 12 goals in nine appearances for Real Madrid in the Uefa Champions League this season, incorporating a full go-around in his past excursion to England prior in the month (v Chelsea at Stamford Bridge). Just a single player has gotten all the more away goals against English sides in a solitary Uefa Champions League crusade, with Serge Gnabry netting six for Bayern Munich in 2019-20 (four v Spurs, two v Chelsea).
Just Kingsley Coman (4.1) has a higher anticipated helps (xA) absolute than Manchester City's João Cancelo (3.6 xA) in the Uefa Champions League in 2021-22, demonstrating the nature of chances made by the Portuguese this season. The third-positioned player for anticipated helps this season, in the interim, is Real Madrid's Vinícius Júnior (3.4 xA).
Real Madrid winger Vinícius Júnior has made more moderate conveys of 10+ meters than some other player in the Uefa Champions League this season (62), while no player has produced more shots following a convey (moving 5+ meters with the ball) than the Brazilian in this season's opposition (21 - 10 shots, 11 possibilities made).
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