Manchester City and Real Madrid meet for what seems to be their yearly meeting in the Champions League knockout stages. This makes it four years in a row where the teams have met. On the last three occasions, the winner of this tie has ended up going on to win the Champions League with Real Madrid winning in 2022 and 2024, while City won in 2023.
Man City are relying on the Champions League to save their season, as they are currently sitting fifth in the Premier League, having lost seven matches from their 24 games played. Real Madrid are sitting top of La Liga, having come back from behind to draw with Athletico in the Madrid derby.
Head-to-head Last 10 matches
Man City 1-1 Real Madrid (Real won 4-3 on penalties)
Real Madrid 3-3 Man City
Man City 4-0 Real Madrid
Real Madrid 1-1 Man City
Real Madrid 2-1 Man City (3-1 after full time)
Man City 4-3 Real Madrid
Man City 2-1 Real Madrid
Real Madrid 1-2 Man City
Real Madrid 1-0 Man City
Man City 0-0 Real Madrid
Matchup Statistics
- Of teams that Real Madrid have played more than five times, their win percentage is worst against Man City (25%).
- Real Madrid haven’t kept a clean sheet against Man City in their last eight meetings. Their last clean sheet in the tie came in 2016.
- In four of the five years these two have been drawn against each other in the knockout stages of the Champions League, the winner has gone on to win lift the trophy. The only time it didn’t happen was in 2020 during the Covid end-of-year tournament.
- Pep Guardiola has managed against Real Madrid 25 times, winning 13 and drawing six. Ancelotti has managed against Man City 14 times, losing nine and only winning two. Ancelotti and Guardiola have faced each other 12 times. Ancelotti has won four, Guardiola has won six and two have ended in a draw.
Team Statistics
- There have been four or more goals in eight of Man City’s last nine matches, the only game where they haven’t had that many goals was against Leyton Orient in the FA Cup.
- Real Madrid lost their last away game La Liga to Espanyol 1-0. They only created one big chance from their 21 shots.
- Only Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund scored more goals than Real Madrid in the league phase with 20 goals across the eight matches.
- Man City hit the woodwork seven times in the league phase, more than any other side in the competition.
- With an average of 66.6% possession, Man City kept the ball more than all sides in the competition, other than Bayern Munich.
Player Statistics
- Rodrygo has scored four goals and provided one assist in his seven games against Man City.
- Kevin De Bruyne has scored four goals and provided four assists in his last seven games against Real Madrid.
- Erling Haaland has failed to score against Real Madrid despite having played them four times. They are the only team he has played four times and not had a goal involvement against.
- Bernardo Silva has only scored more goals against Watford (five) than he has against Real Madrid. Silva has scored four goals and provided an assist in his last six games against Real Madrid.
- Vinicius Jr was the fourth-highest scorer with seven goals in the group phase, while Erling Haaland scored six.
- Matheus Nunes provided three assists, the same number as Jude Bellingham and Luka Modric, who were the top assisters for Real Madrid.