In the last 5 year both teams have been meet several times in this competition and the match between them always be tight and hard to predicted this because both teams considered as favourite champion and this is early meet for them because i expect Manchester City and Real Madrid will meet at round of 16 or if possible at the final match
Both teams can no longer meet in the final, this game is a two-legged knockout game, one team will advance to the next phase and the other will be eliminated.
It's obvious some persons are yet to come to a good understanding of how the newly introduced league pattern in the champions league is been designed. Else they wouldn't be talking about a probably occurrence where Manchester city and Real Madrid might meet t the finals right now in a play off.
Looking at the performance of both teams in this competition, I don't see them getting far, for example, if Real Madrid advances to the next phase, they will face strong opponents who, if they play poorly, will lose. The same will happen with Manchester City if they advance to the next phase.
You can't really tell right now about that. From what I think, Real Madrid would have a better chance of reaching the finals of the UCL more than Manchester city will should they survive this stage onto the next phase. Real Madrid previously have been know for not having a great start in the UCL competition even on those seasons they've won the titles. But when they get to reach the round of 16 to the round of 8 , you get to see a different Real Madrid performance entirely.