Manchester City goes in their Champions League collision with Real Madrid with a bad record in large competitions during the 2024-25 campaign.
Unexpectedly, the men of Pep Guardiola have significantly underperformed this season, fifth sitting in the Premier League table, with 12 games consisting of five draw and seven defeats.
Moreover, the Display of the citizens in the Champions League group phase was far from the standards they have set since the Spaniard arrival – whereby the she is avoiding a shock abnormality in a dramatic match against club bridges.
On Tuesday, City organizes reigning champions Madrid, when they meet for the fourth season in a row. Los Blancos saw a penalty shoot-out win in the Etihad Stadium last season.
However, the statistics show that the game can in fact be a tough demand for Guardiola and Co – because they will enter the match in the competition during the current campaign with a disappointing record in large competitions.
The citizens have only achieved two victories in 14 collisions with large clubs, with four draw and eight defeats that come in 12 of the competitions.
Many of the underperformances have arrived in the Premier League, emphasized by their recent 5-1 loss against Arsenal in the Emirates, where the team lost control in the past 20 minutes.
Despite the scoring of an equalizer in the 55th minute through the efforts of Erling Haaland, City admitted only a minute later when Arsenal regained the lead.
Various defensive errors have cost the team a considerable number of points in the competition, with Guardiola's side 41 reaching so far, behind Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest and Chelsea in the table.
The run started in the first match of the season, when the defensive competition champions could not beat their neighbors Manchester United in the Community Shield and claim a victory over penalties after a 1-1 draw.
In October City De Hoop on a Carabao Cup triumph saw disappear after a 2-1 defeat in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when Guardiola, with an injury hit team, refused to bring Haaland to the field.
Many experts and fans believe that Rodri's injury has meanwhile significantly influenced the bad season of the citizens.
The 28-year-old has been out with an ACL injury since September, picked up during another drawn match against Arsenal, in which the match ends 2-2.
The men of Guardiola succeeded in equating in the last minutes of the game with an attempt by replacement John Stones after a corner, while the Gunners played a large part of the game with 10 men.
To reverse things, they brought in six players for a total reimbursement of approximately £ 180 million in January; Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vior Reis, Juma Bah and Christian McFarlane.
Only the first three were added to the Champions League team for the knockout phase after debuting in recent competitions.
Marmoush and Gonzalez played on Saturday in the starting line-up of City against Leyton Orient, but the Spaniard was immersed in the 22nd minute after a small injury. He is expected to be fit for the Madrid collision.
In the meantime, Madrid goes into play with an injury-affected defensive line, without Dani Carvajal, Antonio Rudiger, Eder Militao and David Alaba.
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