Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Saturday, May 20.
Pep Guardiola must heed Carlo Ancelotti history as he faces Real Madrid again with Man City
09.05.2023 - 07:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City have been here before.
Competing in the latter stages of the Champions League as favourites. Expectancy, pressure. It can do funny things. No-one foresaw the Blues losing to Monaco in 2017 or Lyon in 2020. Last-gasp defeats to Tottenham in 2019 and Real Madrid last year can be looked back on with more than a hint of bad luck. Throw in a defeat to Liverpool in the last eight in 2018 and that disappointing final loss to Chelsea in 2021 and it means City are still seeking their first crown in Europe's elite competition.
Pep Guardiola hasn't won it since 2011, a remarkable wait given his standing and the sides he's had in intervening years. But here we are again.
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City face a re-match against Real Madrid, the side that did the unthinkable last season with two goals at the death of normal time and another in extra time to knock Guardiola and co out when progress to the final seemed certain.
"We did everything we could," was his assessment after last season's late drama. It wasn't enough.
The last-four tie will once again pit Guardiola against the wily Carlo Ancelotti. Something of a smiling assassin. Polite and pragmatic, a winner of each of Europe's top five leagues alongside four Champions League crowns. The pair have sparred on eight previous occasions, Ancelotti has only won three - with the caveat of four defeats while in charge of Everton - but his trio of victories should serve as a reminder to Pep that this is a man who knows what it takes to get big results in big games.
Last season will be fresh in the memory. But nine years ago is perhaps the playbook Guardiola should be studying. His Bayern Munich side were
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