Madrid has control over the UCL Knockout phase playoff, but will be wary of a Guardiola team with Haaland, De Bruyne and Foden.
If the most successful club in the history of the Champions League, Real Madrid would not have expected that he was not directly eligible for the round of 16 of the 'new' UCL.
To make matters worse, they were theoretically attracted to Manchester City in the Playoff round. However, the Laliga giants were able to take advantage of the unrest on the Pep Guardiola team, is currently currently winning the first stage in England last week. Madrid will now expect to end the job in the Santiago Bernabéu on Wednesday (February 19).
Prior to the match, Guardiola naughty gave his team a “1% chance” to win in the Spanish capital and qualified for the last 16, a counterpart Carlo Ancelotti rejected.
But although they have been miserably from recent times, a team with Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden and Ederson is certainly still able to win a one -off match against every opponent.
How Manchester City Real Madrid can help make unwanted history
City has to win with two clear goals in the Bernabéu to continue, or to take on a victory of one goal and overcome it in a penalty shootout. If that happened, Real Madrid would first register an unwanted one.
It would be the first time in 33 years ago that the Champions League was renamed, prior to the 1992/23 season, that Madrid qualified for the tournament and did not reach the round of 16. So far they have made it 27 times from 27.
The Spanish giants can be seen in the round of 16 (and usually later stages) in each of the last 26 editions of the Champions League. The last time they did not arrive in the 1996/1997 season, when they were not involved in the European competition after they were only sixth in Laliga last year.
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