City ready, looking for Madrid's top performance!

City make four changes for Madrid clash Pep Guardiola has made four changes from that side that drew with West Ham at the weekend. Ruben Dias, Tijjani Reijnders, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku all start, with Marc Guéhi,, Nico O’Reilly, Antoine Semenyo and Omar Marmoush all making way. Teams CITY : Donnarumma, Nunes, Khusanov, Dias, Ait-Nouri, Rodrigo, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Cherki, Doku, Haaland Subs: Trafford, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Kovacic, Nico, Guéhi, Savinho, O’Reilly, Semenyo, Foden, Lewis REAL MADRID: Courtois, Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Huijsen, F.

Garcia, Valverde (C), Thiago, Tchouameni, Guler, Brahim, Vinicius Subs: Lunin, Carvajal, Alaba, Camavinga, Mbappe, Gonzalo, Carreras, Mastantuono, Aguado, Cestero, Angel, Palacios formation/tactics City line-up with Gianluigi Donnarumma in goal, Matheus Nunes and Ray Ait-Nouri at right and left-back respectively. Our central defensive pairing is Dias and Abdukodir Khusanov, with a midfield trio of Rodrigo, Reijnders and Bernardo. Doku and Cherki will look to supply Erling Haaland in a 4-3-3 formation.

Blues seek perfection One thing seems certain this evening - City need to be almost perfect to turn this tie around. Of course, it is possible the Blues can still progress into the Champions League quarter-finals, but we will need to be focused and on the front foot from minute one - something our players won’t need reminding of. Football can be a funny old game, as an old school football pundit used to regularly tell us.

There’s no doubt you need the rub of the green as well as being at the top of your game - but a break of any sort that goes our way might just tip this contest our way. An early goal would be incredible. This group of City players are more than capable of pulling this back, and our fans have a huge part to play, too.