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You are right, Real Madrid and Manchester City are the two favorites in the Champions League this season, but unfortunately they had to meet too soon in the quarter-finals. I was basically expecting Manchester City to play Real Madrid in the semi-finals, but that never really came true.

Real Madrid has home advantage in the first leg, while Manchester City will have it in the second leg. Manchester City already have experience beating Real Madrid, but they will never be able to do the same thing every season if Ancelotti has learned enough from his mistakes last season. I would certainly expect the opposite, I mean Manchester City must can beat Real Madrid in the quarter-finals this season.

Yes, I also agree with you. Both Man City and Real Madrid are in top form. In a narrow lane, Real Madrid and Man City faced each other again for the fourth consecutive season in the Champions League. The rematch between Real Madrid and Man City in the quarterfinals of this year's Champions League promises to continue to be a tense match. Man City will continue to defeat Real Madrid this season. In terms of player quality, Man City is still better. Although the talents of the two coaches are equal. Real Madrid can only be firm when they get the final piece of the puzzle, Kylian Mbappé. Only then will they dominate this Europe. Regarding the current squad, Real Madrid cannot overwhelm Man City.

Real Madrid is in good condition because they have perfect squad with all their mainstay players who have succeeded in enabling Real Madrid to achieve many wins in the previous few matches.
But on the other hand, Manchester City is also in very possible condition to beat Real Madrid because they have squad that really cannot be underestimated and Manchester City is really focusing on preparations for the quarter-final match later.
Hopefully, in the next almost 4 weeks before the match takes place, Manchester City will not have any problems that could harm them, such as players getting injured, because the first leg match is big opportunity for Manchester City to win by landslide.
Pep must be more careful in positioning his players for Premier League matches and he must be able to look after all the key players to avoid injury problems.

Real Madrid might be able to have additional performance with Mbappe but that will happen next season and this season they will only be the same as last season when they lost badly on the road to Manchester City.
I think the results of last season matches could happen again for this season quarter final.

Manchester City and Real Madrid are undoubtedly each other's tough opponents and neither team is behind in any aspect. Just as Manchester City can beat Real Madrid, Real Madrid can beat Manchester City, but the difference between these two teams is their home match. If a team can't do well at their home ground or can't win by a large margin, it will be difficult in their away match, so both teams will definitely give the most importance to their home ground match. Last season we saw that Real Madrid failed to perform well in their home matches due to which they performed worse when they went to Manchester City ground and this was the reason for their big defeat by Real Madrid against Manchester City last season.

I agree with you that home matches will decide which team we see in the semi-finals. In the previous season, the Madrid team did not play well in the home match against Manchester City. The match was a 1-1 draw. And in the away match, Madrid lost by a huge margin of 4-0. In 2022, Madrid lost the awya match 4–3, but they made a great comeback in the home match and qualified for the final by winning the match 3–1. The team that performed well in the home matches of the previous two seasons qualified for the finals.

Both Real Madrid and Manchester City are strong teams. The bonding between the players is strong and their coaches are very experienced. So it is impossible to predict now which team will qualify for the semi-finals.