Actual Madrid tackle Manchester Metropolis on the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, February eleventh, at 21:00 CET within the first leg of their Champions League play-off assembly. With the final two winners of the competitors ending exterior the highest 8 within the league section, a two-legged spherical will resolve who progresses to the final 16.
Los Blancos come into the sport off the again of in La Liga on the weekend, the place they had been unlucky to not have gained after a spirited second half show. Of their final two Champions League matches, they’ve struck eight instances with Rodrygo bagging 4 targets within the course of.
So far as the group information goes, Carlo Ancelotti can be with out Antonio Rudiger, Dani Carvajal, David Alaba and Eder Militao, who’ve been joined on the sideline by Lucas Vazquez. The Spaniard picked up an harm within the Madrid Derby on Sunday. In the meantime, Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, Endrick, Jude Bellingham and Luka Modric are one yellow card away from suspension within the second leg.
There are unlikely to be too many surprises within the beginning eleven for Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect and their solely change from the Atletico Madrid fixture might see Eduardo Camavinga come into midfield. Federico Valverde is anticipated to play at proper again in Vazquez’s absence, thus opening up a task for the French teen within the engine room in Tuesday’s conflict with Manchester Metropolis.
The hosts, Manchester Metropolis, gained their FA Cup fourth spherical bout in opposition to Leyton Orient on the weekend as they got here from behind to assert a 2-1 outcome. Abdukodir Khusanov scored his maiden objective for the membership after becoming a member of from Lens within the winter whereas Kevin De Bruyne, who has an envious report in opposition to Actual Madrid, bagged the winner after coming off the bench within the second half.
Pep Guardiola can be with out Oscar Bobb and Rodri for the sport, whereas Jeremy Doku, Nathan Ake and Nico Gonzalez are uncertain. Subsequently, a choice on their participation may very well be taken solely hours forward of the match. For the Residents, there is just one participant who dangers suspension within the second leg on account of an accumulation of yellow playing cards – Ruben Dias.
As with Actual Madrid, no main surprises are anticipated from Pep Guardiola both so far as the line-up goes. Numerous first-choice Manchester Metropolis males are going to get again into the group after being rested on the weekend, together with Erling Haaland, who will search for his first ever objective in opposition to the Whites on Tuesday. Elsewhere, it is going to be attention-grabbing to see if Ederson begins in objective or Stefan Ortega is picked.
The referee for the match is the 42-year-old Frenchman, Clement Turpin, underneath whose officiating Actual Madrid haven’t misplaced in eight matches. The Whites will hope their report underneath the referee prevails and that they will seize their first ever win in regulation time on the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday to take a significant benefit again to the Santiago Bernabeu forward of subsequent week’s second leg.
