The City boss insisted the Spanish club were not favourites to reach the final despite holding his side to a 0-0 draw in Tuesday night’s first leg at the Etihad. I think it will be another evenly contested game and a very hard one. We had good results away against Paris Saint-Germain, Dynamo Kiev and Sevilla.
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“David had a slight strain in his thigh”, Pellegrini said.
Zinedine Zidane’s side was profligate against Manchester City without Ronaldo.
“I will wait for the next game”, Ronaldo was quoted as telling reporters before the game. As I said before, we have the same chance as Real Madrid.
“If you’re going to have a draw at home, which is not a bad thing against Real Madrid, then 0-0 is the best result”.
“I don’t think they are favorites”, said the Chilean, who was sacked after one season as Real head coach in 2010 and is weeks away from having to leave City. “But we were not very creative, we couldn’t create clear chances to score”. In a wider perspective it is 180 minutes we are playing for this tie.
Joe Hart is desperate to KO Real Madrid and erase the painful memory of his last appearance at the Bernabeu. “They’re two important players and we hope that they’re back for the second leg. We’ll take it day-by- day and look at it with the doctors”. “We were trying to score and if didn’t happen it didn’t matter because we trust ourselves away”. “I can’t tell you right now if they will be fit”. We have the second leg at home, but it’s 50:50.
“We know (Sergio) Aguero is a good player so we didn’t give him much space”.
“We tried change our game but it was impossible so we need to play on Sunday”. If we don’t manage to score a goal what claims can we make for going to the final?
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“No matter what stage of the competition, no matter what occasion, there is a certain style of play they need to bring and a certain level of performance and hopefully that will play into our hands”, Kompany said.
