That's right. Many people's hopes were that the two teams should meet in the final but unfortunately these two great teams had to meet in the quarter-finals, this was like a premature UCL league final.
But I agree with you. Even though last season Real Madrid was humiliated by Man City, this is not the case because now Real Madrid is better and stronger. It is proven that currently Real Madrid is still at the top of the Laliga standings. Additionally, with the arrival of Jude and several other players, the Real Madrid squad is almost complete compared to last season. So my prediction is that Real Madrid this season will definitely be able to eliminate the defending champion (Man City) from the UCL league competition.
Yes maybe it will be an premature final, but I think the match between Manchester City and Real Madrid who meet faster in the quarter-finals than the final will also be no less exciting later, besides that I think so far the teams competing in the champions match have had balanced opponents and of course will make the match will be evenly matched later for us to watch and most likely will also give us a final that may be more interesting than Manchester City vs Madrid, so far Manchester City and Madrid have a very high rivalry in the race for the Champions League trophy and even both continue to take turns to beat each other in order to be the best in the Champions League so far.
Indeed, we have always known Madrid as the ruler of the Champions League but I think it should not be for us to underestimate Manchester City, I don't know in what way you see if Manchester City is not better than Madrid at the moment, while Manchester City so far also has a good performance in the league, even though they are currently in third place in the Premier League Standings but they are only 1 point apart and you certainly know how tight the Premier League is if Compared to La Liga, besides that when you say Madrid have Jude Bellingham in their squad, then what about Haalaand is he not a dangerous striker?