from: Real Madrid against Manchester City
What: UEFA Champions League
where: Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain
when: Wednesday, February 19 at 9 pm local time (20:00 GMT)
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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti says his counterpart in Manchester City Pep Guardiola was deliberately underestimating the English team’s hopes of reaching the Champions League last.

European heroes Madrid keeps 3-2 progress over the cityThose who fought this season and won fourth in the Premier League, before the second round match on Wednesday in Santiago Bernabeu.

After Newcastle crushed 4-0 on Saturday, Guardiola said that City has only one percent opportunity to go out The record is 15 times the winners of the European Cup.

“Don’t really think that, I will ask him before the game-Do you really think you have a 1 percent chance?” Ancelotti said at a press conference on Tuesday.

“He really thinks they have a greater chance … We don’t think we have a 99 percent chance.

“We believe that we have a small feature that we have to benefit from, and try to play the same game that we created in the first station, which went well.”

What did Guardiola say before the real clash?

Guardiola won three titles in La Liga and a pace in the Champions League in his time with Real Madrid in Spain, Barcelona.

This campaign was greater, and perhaps first, a real struggle for his administrative life.

“This season is that we were miles away, miles away,” he said. “The results were bad.”

What do statistics say to Real Madrid and the city of Man?

Guardiola has never failed in 16 seasons of training-four in Barcelona, ​​and three in Bayern and nine in Manchester-to move his team to the last 16 years. The 2012-13 season was the last time the city did not play at that point.

Madrid got better than the city in the quarter-finals last year, and won 3-1 in additional time in the semi-finals in 2022. Each time the Ancelotti team continues to win the title, which expands the club’s record to 15 Trophies in the Champions League.

What is the latest on Spanish referees at Real Madrid?

Ancelotti also repeated his frustration with Spanish referee, following some controversial decisions that followed against his team in the last Laliga matches.

Ancelotti said he was more comfortable in the Champions League referee.

Ancelotti said: “Statistics speak for themselves, in Europe, there is less controversy in this sense, and there are less Vary’s lower interventions,” Ancelotti said.

“VAR only interferes when it is necessary, and the Champions League is usually characterized by the best referees from every country, so the quality is very high in this sense.”

Is Bellingham available after the red card against Osasuna?

England was Jude Bellingham It was sent to the opposition during the 1-1 Madrid draw in Osasuna Saturday in Laliga, but the resulting comment does not apply in the Champions League.

Federico Valverde, his teammate, said that he does not want the midfielder to change his ways.

“What I want is players who leave their soul on the field, in this case with Jude in the last game, I always want to be like this,” Valverde told reporters.

“Jude is a player who offers the character, who always wants to win, who always wants to fight.

“This time he got a red card, but I like to give everything, care for him … We have to remain united as a team.”

Real Madrid team news

Ancelotti confirmed at his press conference before the match that defender Antonio Rudiger was appropriate to start their holders after the injury, but Lucas Vazukez will be ready for the seat.

Manchester City team news

Erling Haland is scheduled to face real, although there is a severe blow to victory against Newcastle.

The attacker was affected for some time after taking roads during the match, but Guardiola says he expects the attacker to be decent.

Face

The teams faced each other 16 times, with real young people as winners on six occasions.

The city was not there to compensate for the numbers, because they got victory in five of the meetings.

Although City did not beat Real in the last three games, the Guardiola team won the goals away when both sides were moved together in this competition in the Champions League in the city two seasons ago.

Cityzens only won their six trips to Madrid, which came as a way to win 2-1 in 2020.