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.
Hopefully this can happen so that Real Madrid can get a little smoother in getting to the Champions League final this season, but Real Madrid must also be aware that Manchester City is still quite strong this season. So Real Madrid must be able to use all their abilities in the quarter-final match in order to get rid of the defending champions, because on the one hand Manchester City also know that Real Madrid will probably respond to them in the quarter-final match in order to advance to the final.
The draws were so balanced that all the teams in the matches were equal to each other. The winner of the match between Real Madrid and Manchester City will probably advance to the final. Each of the other teams has the possibility of exiting. I cannot predict the teams that will advance to the next round. Maybe I'm more confident that Atletico Madrid will advance to the next round, but that's all.