Manchester City defeat from Arsenal has opened our eyes to the poor defense they have, as well as when Madrid lost from Espanyol wouldn't it also doubt us to say they are stronger than Manchester City at the moment?
Each of us has our own predictions and also their own views on looking at the match later, so in this case maybe every football fan will be split 50/50 in favouring Madrid or Manchester City as win later, but apart from that, I personally tend to see if the two teams will probably draw in the first and the second leg, so based on the conditions of the two teams may the winner will determined through penalties and it is a difficult choice and prediction to see who is win in my opinion.
it can not be a comparison to measure the strength of Manchester City and also Real Madrid, I think when these two teams meet in the play off round later everything will be different and the tension of the match in the Champion League is much higher so that each team has much greater motivation not to be eliminated.
I see overall Manchester City and Real Madrid have not found their best performance this season and even Manchester City has been very depressed in the Premier League this season so it will be quite difficult for us to predict the match later.
Your opinion may be true, this is a fierce match that allows anything to happen in this match but I slightly favor Real Madrid because I think they have a much better mentality when invited to the Champion League.