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After seeing the game between Manchester City and Arsenal that ended the way it ended, I think Madrid will be more confident that they can win the fixture against Manchester city and city will have their confidence tampered as they were literally humbled by an epic scoreline in the yesterday's fixture. I n this fixture it's sad that winning is the only option for either teams as they cannot draw and still have a chance so it's going to be a really epic and yet intriguing game between both teams.
I also think the same thing, after seeing City defeated by Arsenal in the Premier League, it seems that we are increasingly doubtful about their match against Real Madrid later. City's weak defense seems to be a target for Madrid's front line players who have skills and speed. IMO, this is no longer about confidence, but it seems that Ancelotti has observed the weaknesses of Manchester City players and their system. but we'll just see how Pep Guardiola will process his tactics and strategies later, because no matter what City will work hard to win the match against Madrid. the first leg is held at the Alliaz Arena, they will try hard to return to their best performance. even so, City is still very doubtful, I think Real Madrid will be favored in the battle between these two teams.
They have every reason to be doubtful of themselves because they are totally out of form, and we all know how good this real Madrid team is, even arsenal that beat Manchester city easily cannot knockout real Madrid in both legs if they ever meet each other because I believe that real madrid is more superior to arsenal.
Since the Qatar base investors bought Manchester city I haven't seen them so weak as they are presently, and they the real Madrid team they are playing is in a very good form, so it's actually going to be a very difficult game for this Manchester city side, though anything can happen in the game of football, but I still believe that Manchester city cannot survive real Madrid over two legs in this playoff games coming up.
Then talking about their defense, that's what will be the greatest headache of pep guardiola because the kind of huge amount of goals they are chipping in is way too much for a team that really wants to compete against the bigger boys, so that's one area in this Manchester city side that they really need to improve if they want to be able to compete in this upcoming game against real madrid.