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The strength of the Manchester City team in the last few seasons has been quite strong and they have advantages in all sectors so it is quite difficult to stop them and indeed no team can be compared because all teams have their own strengths and weaknesses.
And the match against Real Madrid is a difficult match, both teams have their own strengths and both teams have met often in the last few years so both already know each other's weaknesses.
Manchester City is strong as a team, so is Real Madrid. This season Real Madrid has additional strength where Jude Bellingham is the most productive player in the squad. The game will probably never be the same as last season and Manchester City seem to have realized that from the start. Real Madrid has weaknesses, but they have good experience in the Champions League to smooth out their plans.
The duo of Vinicius and Bellingham is a good duo in the Real Madrid squad, but they have better strength to appear strong. Real Madrid is unlikely to repeat its mistakes last season against Manchester City, however, Manchester City will probably also win the match to repeat its success. Tough match, of course and it will be great if both of them play well.
The consistency of both is still very good, especially Madrid at this time which seems to have a new motivation that makes its performance different and better than the previous season so it is quite natural that this match will be very difficult for both of them in this quarter-final.
But on the other hand Pep always has a way to shut down Madrid's game even though the final results sometimes don't really match the expectations in the matches they have done in the previous few seasons but in terms of performance on the field Manchester City can sometimes lock up the Madrid defence and this needs to be anticipated by Ancelotti now because when his midfield makes then indeed this can be very dangerous but Manchester City also needs to anticipate the situation further when trying to apply the same scheme especially now that Ederson is likely to be injured for a long time and when trying to lock up they must ensure Madrid's fast counter-attacks do not run smoothly later.