I personally hope Madrid can get a win in this match but it cannot be denied that this condition is difficult to believe especially since this is a big match so that mentality, club readiness and game schemes will be very influential in the end for the final result.
I am a fan of Madrid also and hope for the best results. I was a bit surprised when look both team meet on playoff, It's like the finals are too early. I just hope both team meet PSV or Brest, and meet in the semi-finals, but all has happened, I only hope Madrid can maintain their trophy for this session or at least be able to play at the next level. I admit, The city has begun to increase its performance after recruiting several players as the Defender. The city also added to their ammunition on front which make it harder to the squad to manage their improvement. Rodrygo has rediscovered its best performance, and appear to be in sync with Mbappe, This good development will be tested again, but of course it will be hard because the city's defense getting more solid.
Madrid's problem is that they are sometimes unpredictable in terms of consistency because when they are not favored, they always give unexpected surprises and when they are favorites to win, the opposite happens. In today's match in the domestic competition is also the same even though they are actually very favorite but they actually lost narrowly to their opponents which makes the situation still difficult if Ancelotti cannot stabilize Madrid's condition in the match later.
The first leg will take place at the Etihad and of course there is a pressure when playing at this stadium but there is still a good hope for Madrid later as long as Ancelotti can continue to pay attention to a suitable scheme to face City because we know sometimes Pep can always make schemes that are sometimes difficult to guess even their conditions in terms of dominance can be greater but this should also be used as a good condition for Madrid to carry out their flagship scheme where counter attacks that are always characteristic of them must be able to make this first leg an advantage for them later.