Manchester Metropolis journey to face Actual Madrid for the primary leg of their Champions League Spherical of 16 tie on Wednesday night time.
Right here’s every thing it is advisable to know forward of the match…
Kick-off time
20:00 UK time, Wednesday eleventh March
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How you can watch
Dwell on TNT Sports activities 1
Streaming on Discovery+
Accidents and suspensions
Actual Madrid: Carreras (out), Alaba (out), Militão (out), Ceballos (out), Bellingham (out), Mbappé (out), Rodrygo (out).
Manchester Metropolis: Gvardiol (out), Alleyne (doubt), Kovacic (out).
Predicted line-ups
Actual Madrid (4-3-1-2): Courtois; Alexander-Arnold, Asencio, Rudiger, Mendy; Valverde, Tchouameni, Camavinga; Guler; G. Garcia, Vinicius Jr.
Man Metropolis (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Nunes, Dias, Guehi, Ait-Nouri; Bernardo, , O’Reilly; Semenyo, Haaland, Foden.
Latest kind
Actual Madrid returned to successful methods in La Liga after shedding back-to-back matches, as they defeated Celta Vigo 2-1. Los Blancos are actually 4 factors behind league leaders Barcelona. Raul Arbeloa’s males needed to overcome a two-legged play-off towards Jose Mourinho’s Benfica to make to the Spherical of 16.
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Manchester Metropolis had a six match successful streak in all competitions ended by Nottingham Forest final week as they drew 2-2 with the relegation threatened facet, placing them seven factors behind Premier League leaders Arsenal. Pep Guardiola’s facet returned to successful methods within the FA Cup towards Newcastle United, confirming their place within the Quarter-Finals of the competitors.
What’s been mentioned?
has despatched a message to his Man Metropolis gamers forward of going through Actual Madrid: “In case you are not in a position to deal with this state of affairs or at Anfield, Emirates, Previous Trafford, PSG, Camp Nou, you must stay with that.”
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Raul Arbeloa says Actual Madrid usually are not inferior to Manchester Metropolis: “We’re Actual Madrid, we by no means really feel lower than anyone. We shouldn’t really feel inferior to anyone. Everyone knows the opponent very nicely, the membership, the coach,the gamers. They have been champions two years in the past. However we go into it with a whole lot of pleasure… Tomorrow we’ll play to win.”