Real Madrid won 2-1 at Celta Vigo on Friday
Man City were 3-1 winners at Newcastle in the FA Cup
Recommended bet: Real Madrid to win at least one half
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City won 2-1 at the Bernabeu in December in the Champions League league phase and are odds-on favourites to repeat the dose when they return to play Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
The absence of Kylian Mbappe, Rodrygo and Jude Bellingham from the Real ranks certainly helps City's cause, though the Premier League side still will not dare take lightly the club who knocked them out of last season's competition.
Team news
Mbappe, scorer of 43 goals for Real Madrid and France this season, and the man who has scored more goals against City in the Champions League than any other player, is out with a knee injury.
Elsewhere, Real are boosted by the return to health of Antonio Rudiger especially with defenders David Alaba, Dani Ceballos and Eder Militao out.
Further forward they are also missing Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo.
For City, Erling Haaland has returned to training after a recent knock and should be fit to start but Mateo Kovacic and Josko Gvardiol are still sidelined.
The stats
Real Madrid have found the net in each of their last 39 home Champions League knockout games, a sequence dating back to 2011.
Man City are unbeaten in their last 11 games, with nine wins and two draws.
Real Madrid have received 25 yellow cards and three reds throughout the Champions League campaign, the joint- most going into this stage.
Erling Haaland, scorer of 42 goals for City and Norway this season, has scored seven of his club's 15 goals in this season's Champions League.
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Prediction
Manchester City are favourites to win the first leg and look to be taking on Real at the perfect time.
The Spanish giants have won nine of their last 12 games under new boss Alvaro Arbeloa, culminating in a 2-1 win at Celta Vigo on Friday.
But they have lost two of their last four and minus Mbappe, Rodrygo and Bellingham are without a trio of players who have combined for 47 goals this season.
Vinicius Junior still leads a decent attack but City could not be handpicking a weaker-looking Real Madrid side.
Clearly City deserve to be favourites - but as short as they are?
It is not as though Pep Guardiola's men are entirely convincing at the moment and Haaland does not look to be anywhere near full pelt as he struggles with a knock.
Real Madrid are far too potent to be written off and will also ask plenty of questions of City. A betting answer to those questions might be LiveScoreBet's evens that the hosts at least manage to win a half.
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