Manchester City will already have an eye on their next Premier League fixture this weekend.
07.04.2024 - 07:51 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City will return to the Bernabeu on Monday with the confidence of a team that knows they can win the Champions League.
Pep Guardiola's side may have only managed a draw last year in Madrid, but Kevin De Bruyne's equaliser set them up perfectly for the 4-0 annihilation at the Etihad that put them on the path to their first European Cup. In fighting back when it was needed in that first leg, it banished a lot of the pain of the previous year when they had been minutes away from a place in the final only to concede two goals in injury time and crumble in extra time.
City's resolve in 2023 was also far removed from their semi-final under Manuel Pellegrini seven years earlier. While largely remembered for moving away from the fractious management of Roberto Mancini and creating a swashbuckling team that swept to the Premier League title in 2014, Pellegrini also made important strides in Europe.
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In his first season, he broke new ground by qualifying from the Champions League groups for the first time in City's history. A bizarre error in the final group game killed their chances of finishing first, and they drew Barcelona in the last-16 and were comfortably beaten.
The following year they scraped through to the knockouts and were again beaten by Barcelona. It may not have been pretty, but there was symbolic and financial progress.
Then came 2015/16, which saw City top their group for the first time. They were rewarded with a last-16 tie against Dynamo Kyiv, and while Pellegrini chucked away their chances of the FA Cup in protest at the tight schedule it enabled the Blues to debut in the quarter-finals.
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