History repeats itself! Manchester City, Real Madrid's opponents in the quarter-finals of the Champi

The Real Madrid already knows which his second rival of the phase of 'KO' of the Champions League 2023/24 and will be at all more and at all less than the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola. The team of Carlo Ancelotti, that comes to leave on the way to the RB Leipzig in eighth of final in an eliminatory much more suffered of what some expected, especially in the party of turn, will have to surpass to the valid champion to be in the semifinals.

The first duel will contest in Santiago Bernabéu and is programmed for the 9 or 10 April, a date in which if there are not more novelties and bad news for the whites will have of return from the infirmary to Eder Militao and Courtois to be the 'signings' of this final phase of the Champions. So much the central like the goalkeeper are already recovered of his breaks of ligaments of knee, and Carlo Ancelotti already has announced that both will receive the high after the stop of selections of the next week, if all course well.

A very bad memory for the ones of Ancelotti in Manchester

The meeting of turn will be a week afterwards in Manchester, repeating the order of the parties of the past season in which the City finish surpassing to the Madrid widely in the semifinals. After a tie to a goal in the Bernabéu, the team of Ancelotti derrumbó and was goleado by the ones of Guardiola, something that the valid champion expects to repeat not to remain deleted of a so premature way in this edition of the competition.

That day the team mancuniano finish carrying the party by 4-0, but is that besides the first 45 minutes were of an almost exclusive command of the ones of Pep. 2-0 to the rest and only a finish of long distance of Kroos that went to the crossbar upset sometime to a City that showed that yes it had learnt of his elimination a year before, with that surreal doublet of Rodrygo when already it had fulfilled the minute 90.

Differences inside the similarities of a very repeated clash

The big difference in this opportunity will be in that it will be a clash of quarter-finals, advancing the date in that both teams will bump, something that translates in the moment of form of both. The City still has not found his best version in this 2024, although yes that is increasingly near of her, and the Madrid seemed that it will take a second air when recovering for the month of April to two headlines, highlighting besides that no great drops of weight right now to exception of David Praises, in the infirmary until the summer.

Besides, the Madrid will face the gone with an important rest thanks to the stop by the final of the Glass of the King the previous weekend to the gone, and with an advantage of, for now, seven points in LaLiga. The City, by the contrary, arrives third in the Premier League, very near of Liverpool and Arsenal, but having to play to the limit each weekend, and adding also his presence in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, party that besides will play morning in front of the Newcastle, having a lot of options to advance to semis and add more split to his calendar.