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Guardiola is a coach who will not just sit back and watch his team slump, especially when the news about City losing 5:1 to Arsenal is still going viral. Guardiola must be thinking of a big plan to create a surprise and if we talk about Madrid, then City is a tough opponent, even in their last 5 matches, City won 2x - Madrid 1x - drew 2x.
the conclusion I can draw is that the strength of both is very balanced imo.
A coach who has sufficient experience with a lot of flying hours certainly cannot see his team remaining in decline for long. Pep Guardiola already has big plans for Manchester City after Arsenal's 5:1 defeat, let's see if Pep Guardiola will really surprise him in the next match. Madrid is a tough team for Pep Guardiola, not only in the Champions League but that has been the case for a long time when he was Barcelona coach. Will City win the match later? Head to head these two teams are evenly matched.
The match will be a difficult match for us to guess, because after all their mentality in the UCL so far we cannot doubt, but if we look at the conditions of the two teams that are slumping it allows all possibilities to happen in the match including a draw later, I personally tend to see a draw might be the final result of the first leg, because after all the two teams so far have not shown good performance especially after the defeat obtained by madrid when facing espanyol, as well as the difficult victory achieved by manchester city today over leyton, from the two matches of the two teams we can conclude if at this time the two teams are really in very bad condition.