“We won La Liga but we want to win everything.” Cristiano Ronaldo, who left Madrid in 2018 like Zidane, hasn't won the Champions League since then with Juventus. “With the players that we’ve got, there’s no inferiority, we played really well,” Sterling said. The match will take place on Friday 7 August, with kick-off at 20:00 (UK).City hold a 2-1 lead from the first leg in February, when Should we beat Madrid, we will face Lyon or Juventus in the quarter-final and if we reach the last four, we'll play Napoli, Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Chelsea.The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 12 to 23 August.All of these games will be played behind closed doors and will be one-leg knockout ties.The second leg of Manchester City’s Champions League last 16 tie against Real Madrid will be played at the Etihad Stadium. Real began to make its presence felt and equalized through Karim Benzema, who headed in powerfully from Rodrygo's cross in the 28th minute. Now City's season can still end with the club UEFA wanted to ban picking up its biggest club prize.Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus, centre, celebrates with team-mates after scoring his team's fourth goal against Real Madrid.Manchester City’s Phil Foden is swarmed by the Real Madrid defence during their round of 16 tie.Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo converts a first half penalty against Lyon. And the Frenchman was caught out in possession by Gabriel Jesus, who squared for Sterling to tap past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for his 100th City goal.

But another blunder by Varane in the 68th minute was again capitalised on by Gabriel Jesus. Here is everything you need to know ahead of Manchester City’s Champions League game against Real Madrid. Team news. Etihad Stadium, Ashton New Rd, Manchester M11 3FF Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus seized on defensive mistakes to lead Manchester City to a 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League on Saturday (NZT), reaching the quarterfinals with a 4-2 aggregate victory. Champions League: Real Madrid, Manchester City, Barcelona, Chelsea return to action. Leading 2-1 from the first leg in February – before the coronavirus shut down sports – Sterling extended the Premier League runners-up's advantage in the ninth minute at an empty Etihad Stadium. “It’s hard for the club because the club always wants to win the Champions League,” Hazard said. Goals from Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus handed Manchester City a 2-1 win over Real Madrid to seal their place in the Champions League quarter-finals. Bookmakers rate City as overwhelming favourites to make it through to the last eight, with Pep Guardiola’s side holding a 2-1 advantage heading into the second leg of the tie.Read on as we preview the big game and assess City’s chances of winning the Champions League for the first time in their history.City produced a stunning late fightback in the first leg in Spain, with goals from Gabriel Jesus and Kevin de Bruyne securing a memorable 2-1 victory.Isco had given Madrid the lead, but Guardiola’s team stepped things up thereafter and ran out deserving winners of the game.Madrid’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals suffered another blow late in the match as Sergio Ramos was dismissed after bringing down Jesus.It was the first time City had beaten Madrid in the Champions League and put them firmly in the driving seat for the return fixture at the Etihad Stadium.Both City and Madrid will be without hugely influential players for the second leg and it is debatable which side is likely to be impacted the most.Sergio Aguero is ruled out for City, with the Argentinian striker still recovering from the knee surgery he underwent during the latter part of June.Benjamin Mendy and Claudio Bravo also miss out though suspension and injury respectively, but Guardiola has no other issues to contend with.Each team has been in good form in their respective domestic competitions, although Madrid’s record of 10 successive wins in La Liga gives them That run of results helped Zinedine Zidane’s side romp home in the title race, although Barcelona’s inconsistencies on the run-in certainly aided their cause.City won eight out of 10 matches following the resumption of the Premier League to end the campaign 18 points behind Liverpool.Their defeat against Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final exposed their defensive deficiencies and they will need to be wary at the back against Madrid.If City do manage to see off Madrid’s challenge in the quarter-finals, the Champions League draw has handed them an tough passage to the final.Their most likely opponents in the last eight are Juventus, with the Serie A champions strongly fancied to recover from a 1-0 deficit against Lyon.A meeting with either Barca and Bayern Munich is on the cards in the semi-finals, further highlighting the size of the task City face.Paris Saint-Germain or Atletico Madrid are fancied to make it through from the other half of the draw, but City would be favourites to win if they met either team in the final.Senior Editor.