For the subsequent time in this season's Uefa Champions League Real Madrid should upset a first-leg rout at home as Manchester City - offering to arrive at their second progressive last - travel to Spain holding a 4-3 benefit after a throbbing challenge in north-west England.
Kevin De Bruyne headed City in front just 94 seconds into the principal leg on 26 April - the quickest goal in a Uefa Champions League elimination round - and Madrid immediately yielded once more, to Gabriel Jesus in the eleventh moment - the earlies they had allowed in two goals in an European match.
Karim Benzema split the shortage in the 33rd moment, in any case, and, however Phil Foden headed City's third eight minutes after halftime, Vinícius Júnior expeditiously skirted through to keep Madrid in contact. Bernardo Silva's 74th-minute strike gave City a two-goal pad for the third time, yet Madrid wouldn't be shaken off and Benzema pulled one more back from the spot a short ways from time after Aymeric Laporte had dealt with.
That equalled the most goals in a Uefa Champions League elimination round game, matching the seven of Ajax's 5-2home success against Bayern München in the 1994/95 second leg and Liverpool's loss of Roma by a similar score line in the 2017/18 first leg.
This is just City's third Uefa Champions League elimination round, all in the last seven seasons, with the first having finished in disgrace by Madrid, albeit the English club acquired a proportion of vengeance with a last-16 end of the Spanish side in 2019/20.
Madrid, who were delegated 2021/22 Spanish heroes at the end of the week, have won 16 European Cup elimination rounds generally including four of the past nine they have been engaged with starting around 2010/11.
This is a second progressive Anglo-Spanish challenge for the two groups. City pushed out Madrid's neighbors Atlético in the quarterfinals while Benzema scored four of his group's five goals as Madrid removed holders Chelsea, who beat City in last season's conclusive.
Past Meetings
City were 2-1 victors in the two legs against Madrid in the 2019/20 Uefa Champions League round of 16 in spite of falling behind in the primary leg at the Santiago Bernabéu on 26 February when Isco gave the home side a 60th-minutelead. Late goals from Jesus (78) and De Bruyne (83), the last a penalty after Raheem Sterling had been fouled by Dani Carvajal, turned the game around, Madrid finishing with ten men as chief Sergio Ramos was excused a little ways from time subsequent to fouling Jesus.
That was City's most memorable triumph against Madrid however they secured their total win with a second in the deferred second leg in Manchester on 7 August. Albeit Sterling's 10th moment goal was evened out 19 minutes after the fact by Benzema, Jesus got another 2-1 triumph in the 68th moment.
There was just a single goal in the 2015/16 Uefa Champions League elimination round between the clubs. After the principal game in Manchester finished scoreless, a twentieth moment own goal from Fernando at the Santiago Bernabéu sufficiently demonstrated to bring Zinédine Zidane's Madrid into the last, where they beat Atlético on punishments, to the detriment of Manuel Pellegrini's City.
The sides' just other serious fixtures came in the 2012/13 gathering stage, when Madrid two times fought against eminent loss towin 3-2 in Spain on Matchday 1. City drove two times through Edin Džeko (68) and Aleksandar Kolarov (85) however Madridres ponded through Marcelo (76) and Benzema (87) preceding Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed a 90th-minute triumph.
It was 1-1 in Manchester, Sergio Agüero's penalty offsetting Benzema's 10th moment strike. Madrid finished with ten men as Álvaro Arbeloa gathered a subsequent yellow card in fouling Agüero to yield that spot kick.
Those four points assisted José Mourinho's Madrid with completing second in Group D, behind Borussia Dortmund; City, then, at that point, oversaw by Roberto Mancini, finished base with three points having not dominated a match.
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Real Madrid
This is Madrid's 31st European Cup elimination round generally speaking, with the record W16 L14:
1955/56 AC Milan W 5-4 (4-2 h, 1-2 a)
1956/57 Manchester United W 5-3 (3-1 h, 2-2 a)
1957/58 Vasas W 4-2 (4-0 h, 0-2 a)
1958/59 Atlético de Madrid W 2-1 replay (2-1 h, 0-1 a)
1959/60 Barcelona W 6-2 (3-1 h, 3-1 a)
1961/62 Standard Liège W 6-0 (4-0 h, 2-0 a)
1963/64 Zürich W 8-1 (2-1 a, 6-0 h)
1965/66 Inter W 2-1 (1-0 h, 1-1 a)
1967/68 Manchester United L 3-4 (0-1 a, 3-3 h)
1972 73 Ajax L 1-3 (1-2 a, 0-1 h)
1975/76 Bayern München L 1-3 (1-1 h, 0-2 a)
1979/80 Hamburg L 3-5 (2-0 h, 1-5 a)
1980/81 Inter W 2-1 (2-0 h, 0-1 a)
1986/87 Bayern München L 2-4 (1-4 a, 1-0 h)
1987/88 PSV Eindhoven L 1-1 away goals (1-1 h, 0-0 a)
1988/89 AC Milan L 1-6 (1-1 h, 0-5 a)
1997/98 Borussia Dortmund W 2-0 (2-0 h, 0-0 a)
1999/00 Bayern München W 3-2 (2-0 h, 1-2 a)
2000/01 Bayern München L 1-3 (0-1 h, 1-2 a)
2001/02 Barcelona W 3-1 (2-0 a, 1-1 h)
2002/03 Juventus L 3-4 (2-1 h, 1-3 a)
2010/11 Barcelona L 1-3 (0-2 h, 1-1 a)
2011/12 Bayern München, L 1-3 on punishments (1-2 a, 2-1 h)
2012/13 Borussia Dortmund L 3-4 (1-4 a, 2-0 h)
2013/14 Bayern München W 5-0 (1-0 h, 4-0 a)
2014/15 Juventus L 2-3 (1-2 a, 1-1 h)
2015/16 Manchester City W 1-0 (0-0 a, 1-0 h)
2016/17 Atlético de Madrid W 4-2 (3-0 h, 1-2 a)
2017/18 Bayern München W 4-3 (2-1 a, 2-2 h)
2020/21 Chelsea L 1-3 (1-1 h, 0-2 a)
Madrid have never dug out from a deficit to win an European Cup elimination round in the wake of losing the primary leg, home or away. They have been dispensed with on each of the eight past events.
Madrid had won three progressive elimination round ties, having been beaten in five of the past six, preceding losing to Chelsea last season.
This is Madrid's fifteenth appearance in the Uefa Champions League elimination rounds, a rivalry record, three a larger number of than Barcelona and Bayern.
Madrid won five of their six Group D games this season, the special case a staggering 2-1 loss at home to debutants Sheriff on Matchday 2, as they completed first in their segment for the third time in four seasons. They likewise beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 and Inter 2-0 in Madrid.
The Merengues lost 1-0 at Paris in the round of 16 first leg, notwithstanding, and appeared to head out when they fell further behind in the Santiago Bernabéu, yet Benzema struck multiple times in the last half-hour to procure a 3-1 second leg win and 3-2 total victory.
The Frenchman followed that with another full go-around in the quarterfinal first leg at Chelsea, a 3-1 Madrid triumph, and headed the unequivocal goal of the return in additional time, Madrid retaliating from 3-0 down on the night to go through 5-4on total.
Benzema's goals at Chelsea made him just the fourth player to score a full go-around in progressive Uefa Champions League matches and simply the seventh to have hit three goals in more than one game in a similar mission.
Benzema has now scored 14 goals in this season's Uefa Champions League, his first-leg twofold taking him one above Robert Lewandowski, whose Bayern side were dispensed with in the quarterfinals.
Benzema has now scored 15 goals in 21 Uefa Champions League games against English clubs, his biggest count against resistance from a solitary country, surpassing the 14 he has enrolled in the opposition against German sides.
Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most goals scored in a solitary Uefa Champions League knockout stage with ten in Madrid's triumphant 2016/17 mission; Benzema has nine of every 2021/22.
The Spanish side have won just eight of their last 17 home European games (D3 L6) in spite of the fact that they have been triumphant in seven of the latest ten (D1 L2).
Under Zidane, Madrid likewise completed first in their segment in 2020/21, getting six of their ten points against Inter and fixing progress as gathering victors with a 2-0 home loss of Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 6.
Madrid then won the two legs against Atalanta in the round of 16 (1-0 a, 3-1 h) prior to killing Liverpool in the quarterfinals (3-1 h, 0-0 a) preceding losing to Chelsea.
Zidane was supplanted via Carlo Ancelotti in the late spring, the Italian having directed Madrid to their 10th European Cup in 2013/14.
The Spanish side were second in the 2020/21 Liga, completing two points behind neighbors Atlético.
Madrid have arrived at the elimination rounds or better in ten of the last 12 Uefa Champions League crusades, the exemptions their progressive round of 16 ends by Ajax in 2018/19 and City in 2019/20.
Madrid's record in two-legged knockout ties against English clubs is currently W10 L6. This season's quarterfinal against Chelsea was their fifth total triumph in the last seven, in spite of the fact that their last two Uefa Champions League crusades have been finished by Premier League adversaries - Chelsea last season and City in the 2019/20 round of16.
Last season's loss by Chelsea made it two successes and two misfortunes from four ties against English rivals in European Cup elimination rounds.
The second-leg misfortune to Chelsea in this season's quarterfinals was just Madrid's fourth at home to English clubs their record in any case is W9 D7, despite the fact that they have won only one of their last five games against English guests in Madrid (D2 L2).
Madrid have toppled a first-leg away loss multiple times, flopping on a further 16 events, despite the fact that they have won the last two, beating Paris this season having crushed Wolfsburg in the 2015/16 Uefa Champions League quarterfinals (0-2 a, 3-0 h) to end a run of five progressive losses. This is the principal tie in which they have lost the away first leg3-4.
Madrid's record in four Uefa penalty shoot-outs is W2 L2:
5-6 v Crvena zvezda, 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup quarterfinal
3-1 v Juventus, 1986/87 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round1-3 v Bayern München, 2011/12 Uefa Champions League elimination round
5-3 v Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 Uefa Champions League last
Manchester City
City's record in European Cup elimination rounds is W1 L1:
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