Real Madrid vs Manchester City: Top five best Champions League matches

Published at :April 6, 2024 at 5:33 PM

Modified at :April 9, 2024 at 12:58 PM

Los Blancos & The Cityzens have played out some incredible ties in UCL in recent years

The UEFA Champions League is Europe’s best competition in which elite teams from the world’s best leagues contend against each other to win the UCL title. Manchester City won their firs UCL title in the 2022-2023 season. On the other hand, Real Madrid are 14 times UCL champions having the richest history in the Champions League.

Manchester City vs Real Madrid has always been a popcorn fixture over the years in the UCL. Let’s take a look at the top five best UCL fixtures between Real Madrid and Manchester City.

5. Real Madrid 1-2 Manchester City (2019-2020 UCL Round Of 16 1st Leg)

Manchester City‘s first ever victory against Real Madrid in their history came in the 2019-2020 UCL campaign.

Real Madrid has lost their star player Cristiano Ronaldo and a few key players from their UCL treble winning squad. Despite this, the Spaniards scored first in the 60th minute. After this, Manchester City turned on the heat and dominated majority of the game and scored two goals to turn the tables. A goal from Gabriel Jesus and Kevin De Bruyne secured a comfortable lead for Manchester City to close in the second lead at their home stadium.

4. Manchester City 2-1 Real Madrid (2019-2020 UCL Round Of 16 2nd Leg)

The second leg of the 2019-2020 UCL RO16 match between Manchester City and Real Madrid started at an aggregate of 2:1. The advantage was lying with Manchester City since it was at their home stadium.

This time it was Manchester City who took the lead early on with Raheem Sterling scoring in the 9th minute. Karim Benzema pulled back a goal for Real Madrid scoring a goal in the 28th minute. Eventually, Gabriel Jesus ended any minute hopes for Real Madrid scoring a second goal in the 68th minute. The match ended in an aggregate score of 4-2 as Manchester City beat Real Madrid to advance to the 2019-2020 UCL quarter-finals.

3. Manchester City 4-0 Real Madrid (2022-2023 UCL Semi-finals 2nd Leg)

The 2022-2023 UCL campaign was a comeback campaign for Manchester City. The Cityzens were determined to finally win their first UCL title after losing out the 2021-2022 Semi-finals in the last minutes against Real Madrid.

The first leg of the UCL campaign ended in a 1-1 stalemate at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. The second leg was completely Manchester City dominating Real Madrid as they beat them 4-0. Moreover, Real Madrid failed to capitalise on their chances as Manchester City ran rampant with Bernardo Silva being their main threat in that match. The Portugese scored two brilliant goals and created various chances as well. Eventually, Manchester City went on to win the final against Inter Milan.

2. Manchester City 4-3 Real Madrid (2021-2022 UCL Semi-finals First Leg)

The 2021-2022 UCL campaign was going well for Manchester City until they faced Real Madrid. Real Madrid on the other hand turned both legs against PSG and Chelsea as Karim Benzema scored consecutive hat-tricks against.

The first leg ended 4-3 for Manchester City with Kevin De Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva on the score sheet. Karim Benzema and Vinicius Jr were on the scoresheet as the Frenchman scored a panenka penalty in the 88th minute to make the score 4-3 for the night.

1. Real Madrid 3-1 Manchester City (2021-2022 UCL Semi-finals Second Leg)

The second leg of the 2021-2022 UCL Semi-finals was going well for Manchester City as Mahrez scored their first goal in the 73rd minute. However, Real Madrid on the other hand had different plans in mind as the match eventually ended 6-5 for Real Madrid.

Rodrygo Goes was the key player for Real Madrid as he scored a brace in the 90th minute and 91st minute. Luka Modric assisted Rodrygo with a beautiful trivela assist. At this point, the aggregate was 5-5 on the night. Manchester City were shook and in the 95th minute, Benzema won a penalty and scored it to make the aggregate 6-5.

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