Real Madrid vs Man City LIVE stream: Score and latest updates from Champions League semi-final – Jack Grealish starts

Ilkay Gundogan leads out Manchester City to a cacophony of noise inside the Bernabeu. Real Madrid will be tricky customers especially with home advantage.

It’s the Spanish champions vs the English champions.

Which way will this one go? Kick off is up next.

Erling Haaland has scored seven goals in his last three Champions League matches. Will he get on the scoresheet tonight?

Only eight clubs have made more Champions League semi-final appearances than Manchester City.

City have played in two other competition semi-finals, both in the European Cup Winners’ Cup. They beat Schalke in 1969/70 but lost to Chelsea at the same stage the following season.

Man City have won seven and drawn two of the nine games this season in which Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish have all started together.

City were beaten in heartbreaking fashion by the Spanish giants in the last four a year ago and have a chance to make amends this term.

The first leg of their latest encounter takes place at the Bernabeu on Tuesday and Guardiola is focusing on the game in hand rather than looking back 12 months.

Pep Guardiola says it would be a “huge mistake” for Manchester City to look for “revenge” against Real Madrid. City led 5-3 on aggregate in the 90th minute of last year’s semi-final second leg, but Madrid remarkably fought back to win.

“We’re not here for revenge, we’re here for an opportunity,” said Guardiola. “What happened, happened in the past. It would be a huge mistake to think about that.

“The lesson we learn from last year is not revenge, it is learning about what happened, get a good result, perform well and give the opportunity to leave the tie open in Manchester.”

Real Madrid claimed their 14th European Cup in 2021/22.

Carlo Ancelotti’s side had finished first in Group D on 15 points, winning five of their six games, before dramatic knockout wins against Paris Saint-Germain, holders Chelsea, and Man City led to a 1-0 final victory over Liverpool.

That made Ancelotti the first coach to win four European Cups; he had been level with Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane on three. The Italian is also the only coach to have taken a team to five finals.

“It might even be the winning of the Champions League. Back in 1992, when Barcelona were still waiting on their own first Champions League, Cruyff didn’t just play his formation. He came up with a “box” at the back, that had a brilliant technical player in Eusebio Sacristan at full-back. Eusebio was not a defender but his influence there completed the team, allowing such fluidity. It is similar with John Stones at City now, although he can defend very well. The system allows Guardiola’s team to play comfortably with so much space behind them, while also releasing Erling Haaland.

“The move has ensured they are now a team that has everything, combining Guardiola’s control with the individual potency of the best goalscorer in the world. It is why this is their great opportunity and the reason I think it is finally the year of City and Guardiola.

“It is also why he has been so influential in the history of football tactics, someone we all look to as coaches.”

Real Madrid’s strikers, Rodrygo, Karim Benzema and Vinicius Junior have 67 goals and 38 assists between them in all competitions this season.

Each of them scored across the two legs against Man City last season, will they do so again?