Quote from: entertheabyss on Today at 09:19:00 PM

Quote from: Falconer on Today at 07:56:19 PM

Manchester City will not underestimate Real Madrid under any circumstances, so the word "underestimate" should not be mentioned too much. Both teams were serious about preparing for the match, even if both had to lose several main players due to injury. Real Madrid is the king of the Champions League, while Manchester City is only the defending champion with 1 title. The comparison is very baseless, of course, but both teams both have missions and ambitions that must be completed well in the quarter-finals.

I don't think Real Madrid will give up on Manchester City this season, especially as long as Bellingham is in the main line-up. Every player will fight to win both at home and away, this is the best revenge that Ancelotti is currently preparing ahead of the quarter-final match.

The appropriate time for Carlo Ancelotti to take his revenge on Pep Guardiola, remember what Pep Guardiola did to Carlo Ancelotti the last time they faced eachother. There's always need for this elite teams to be reaching out for significant points this season. Manchester City will continue to be my favorite because Pep Guardiola have put in the work and have arranged for the good run this season. The contenders for the UEFA Champions League title is here and we would gladly see both of them clashing this season and this time, in the UCL quarter-finals.

There is almost nothing more to say about the match between Madrid and City in the quarter-finals, where the two teams have had almost no weaknesses this season. In many aspects, Madrid and City have the attributes to beat each other, indeed the match deserves to be called a premature final. With the depth they have, we can clearly see that these two teams are very ambitious to return to dominating the Champions League competition once again.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure most people will be confused about predicting which team will emerge as the winner and advance to the semi-finals. It is possible that the winner will have to be determined through a penalty shootout, even though on paper City is slightly superior. Besides that, we cannot use their previous matches as the main benchmark, where factors such as injuries and player fatigue have a greater influence on their subsequent performance.

Pep Guardiola and Ancelotti certainly took the match seriously, as did their players. Underestimating your opponent can have fatal consequences, these two experienced coaches have certainly warned their players never to take this match lightly. The City versus Madrid match looks like it will be boring in the first leg, because both of them will tend to play carefully. However, the second leg could be a very entertaining match, because it will be a life and death match.