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Follow the match between the Real Madrid<\/strong> and the Manchester City<\/strong>first leg of the Champions League round of 16, which will be played this Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium. We tell you about it on RTVE.es below these lines.<\/p>\n The starting lineup chosen by Alvaro Arbeloa<\/strong> and which has already been officially announced is the following: Courtois; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Huijsen, R\u00fcdiger, Mendy; Tchouameni, Valverde, Thiago Pitarch, Arda G\u00fcler; Brahim and Vinicius.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For its part, Pep Guardiola <\/strong>will present the following once: Donnarumma; Khusanov, Dias, Gu\u00e9hi, O’Reilly; Rodri, Bernardo; Savinho, Semenyo, Doku and Haaland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He Real Madrid<\/strong> and the Manchester City <\/strong>They meet in the first leg of the round of 16, consolidating a rivalry that, with six meetings in the last seven years, has surpassed any other confrontation on the continent. The recent history between the two is a compendium of epic and high-level football: from the white comeback in 2022 <\/strong>towards the 14th cup, until the resounding classification of those of Pep Guardiola<\/strong> in 2023, going through the agonizing penalty shootout that decided Madrid’s pass season 2023-2024<\/strong> after a vibrant 3-3 in the first leg. Last season Madrid clearly won in this same round, but it was a different version and Madrid is missing two of the pillars from then.<\/p>\n Statistically, the equality cannot be denied: five victories for Madrid, five draws and four for City in the previous duels, with 25 white goals to 26 for the ‘light blue’.<\/p>\n The current context favors the English team. City arrives on an ascending line, aspiring to the poker of titles and with its stars in full. Rodri Hernandez<\/strong>Ballon d’Or 2024, has overcome his muscular problems and returns to lead a block reinforced with an investment of 500 million euros. Although Guardiola has the absences of Guardiola <\/strong>y Kovacic<\/strong>the depth of its squad allows it to face the challenge with full guarantees. On the contrary, Real Madrid Alvaro Arbeloa<\/strong> is going through a critical moment. Weighed down by a plague of injuries that affects pillars such as Mbapp\u00e9<\/strong>, Bellingham<\/strong>, Camavinga <\/strong>y Military<\/strong>the coach has been forced to turn to the quarry, highlighting the role of the young man Thiago Pitarch<\/strong>. After losing the lead in the League and being eliminated in the Cup against Albacete, Madrid clings to the mystique of the Bernab\u00e9u to save the season. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Follow the match between the Real Madrid and the Manchester Cityfirst leg of the Champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Live, Real Madrid vs Manchester City | Champions today<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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