{"id":36768,"date":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:14:15","slug":"real-madrid-v-manchester-city-champions-league-live-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36768","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid v Manchester City: Champions League \u2013 live | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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11 min:<\/strong> Rodrygo jinks in from the right and is clipped from behind by Foden, who goes into the book. That\u2019s a daft challenge, on the halfway line with Rodrygo going nowhere.<\/p>\n

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9 min:<\/strong> Cherki sends Rudiger off to the shops for a copy of Marca, a lovely drop of the shoulder down the right flank. Rudiger is fortunate the covering Bellingham is on hand to deal with Cherki, or the City man would have been away.<\/p>\n

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8 min:<\/strong> It could already be 2-1. Somewhere in the multiverse, it is. This surely won\u2019t end goalless.<\/p>\n

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6 min:<\/strong> O\u2019Reilly finds a bit of space down the left but can\u2019t find Silva in the middle with his cross. Real counter. Rodrygo romps into acres down the right and crosses low for Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, racing in from the left. Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior tries to dink over Donnarumma but sends the ball wide left. This is gloriously open.<\/p>\n

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5 min:<\/strong> The resulting corner is cleared by City, who attempt to launch a counter. Cherki is in space on the right, but the ball doesn\u2019t get to him in time and Real regain their shape and their composure. What a start!<\/p>\n

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4 min:<\/strong> Rodrygo taps the free kick to the right for Valverde, who drives low and hard. The shot takes a huge deflection off a City shirt. Donnarumma is rooted to the spot, wrong-footed, but the ball flies inches wide of the right-hand post. Half of the stadium thought that was in.<\/p>\n

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3 min:<\/strong> \u2026 VAR gets involved and it turns out the contact was made just outside the box. City get away with a huge one. But it\u2019s still going to be a free kick in a dangerous position just to the left of the D.<\/p>\n

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2 min:<\/strong> Vinicius Junior snaffles a loose ball and dribbles into the City box down the inside-left channel. He goes over Matheus Nunes\u2019s leg. The ref points to the spot! Penalty! But \u2026<\/p>\n

<\/span>Vinicius Junior is down in the box!<\/span> Photograph: \u00d3scar del Pozo\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a015.08 EST<\/p>\n

1 min:<\/strong> A fierce old atmosphere in the Bernab\u00e9u. It\u2019s Real Madrid in the Champions League after all. It\u2019s Real Madrid versus a Pep team. And then \u2026<\/p>\n

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Hats off to Erling Haaland, who goes out of his way to say hello to a couple of the tiny mascots and give them a high five.<\/strong> Once he goes off down the line, the little lads embrace each other with excitement, their day made. So sweet. Then City get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

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The roof at the Bernab\u00e9u is shut \u2026 and the teams are out!<\/strong> Real Madrid wear their world-famous meringue-white shirts, while Manchester City sport those aforementioned green video-game tops. Erling Haaland, Rayan Cherki, Ronarid, Jet Set Willy and all of the other sprites will start scrolling smoothly in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n

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Pre-match postbag.<\/strong> Gotta say, it\u2019s not exactly teeming over. But quality always trumps quantity.<\/p>\n

\u201cPep usually seems to overthink Real even more than his other big adversaries. City, who should win comfortably, will, by a mixture of super messing around and comedy-gold defending, conspire to lose\u201d \u2013 Tim Stappard<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Thibaut Courtois doesn\u2019t play an absolute blinder, then his form is officially an anti-Liverpool conspiracy\u201d – Matt Dony<\/p>\n

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Pep Guardiola speaks to TNT Sports.<\/strong> \u201cLast season for many reasons we were not able to compete against [Real Madrid] \u2026 hopefully this season we can do it well \u2026 we played good against Sunderland \u2026 some patterns I liked \u2026 Madrid play differently but I am looking forward to that \u2026 [Rayan Cherki] is so young \u2026 he has a huge personality \u2026 something unique in the final third \u2026 I have been here 23 times in this stadium \u2026 as a player and manager \u2026 55, 56 times against Madrid in my career, my life \u2026 whatever happened, Madrid is one of the greatest teams ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back in the Real world, Xabi Alonso finds himself under an absurd amount of pressure, and here\u2019s the latest reason why.<\/strong> Sid Lowe reports on a display of cinematic Celta supercool.<\/p>\n

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Manchester City will tonight sport their fourth-choice kit.<\/strong> It\u2019s a green affair with jet-set geometric squiggles all over it, and a chip embedded within the City crest that, if you were to wave a newfangled \u201csmart electric telecommunications device\u201d over it, unlocks a slew of bonus features for Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the C64 <\/em>EA Sports FC 26. This is the sort of news that will either excite you or make you feel so very old and useless. Latest score: Excited 0-1 Old & Useless<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/span>The precursor to Emlyn Hughes International Soccer was the more innocent International Soccer. Salad days, before rampant commercialisation took over the sport.<\/span>Share<\/p>\n

The big news for Real Madrid:<\/strong> Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, the four-goal hero of the 4-3 win at Olympiacos, is only on the bench. He\u2019s got a broken finger as well as a leg problem.<\/p>\n

Manchester City\u2019s line-up is less seismic in terms of news:<\/strong> they name the same starting XI that swatted aside Sunderland 3-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a014.03 EST<\/p>\n

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Real Madrid:<\/strong> Courtois, Valverde, Asencio, Rudiger, Carreras, Tchouameni, Bellingham, Rodrygo, Ceballos, Vinicius Junior, Gonzalo Garcia.
Subs: Lunin, Gonzalez, Endrick, Mbappe, Guler, Francisco Garcia, Diaz, Cestero, Mastantuono, Martinez, Valdepenas.<\/em><\/p>\n

Manchester City:<\/strong> Donnarumma, Matheus Luiz, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly, Silva, Gonzalez, Foden, Cherki, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Bettinelli, Reijnders, Ake, Marmoush, Ait Nouri, Savio, Khusanov, Bobb, Lewis.<\/em><\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> Clement Turpin (France).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a014.02 EST<\/p>\n

Preamble<\/h2>\n

Real Madrid are sixth in the Champions League table, and second in La Liga.<\/strong> So of course their coach Xabi Alonso, just a few minutes in the job, is already in danger of the push. Of course<\/em> he is. He could probably do without the visit of Manchester City, then. Not that life is as comfortable as it usually is for Pep Guardiola\u2019s men: they\u2019re currently outside the top-eight places in the Champions League, and while they\u2019ve scored 11 goals in their last three games, they\u2019ve conceded six, and before that were dispatched 2-0 at home by Bayer Leverkusen. This battle between two giants of world football <\/strong>not quite<\/strong><\/em> on top of their game kicks off at 8pm GMT.<\/strong> It\u2019s on!<\/p>\n

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