Real Madrid vs Man City LIVE Early team news and how to watch Champions League tie

Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Manchester City's Champions League tie with Real Madrid. The Blues travel to the Spanish capital on the back of three straight Premier League victories which have cut Arsenal's lead at the top of the table to two points.

Pep Guardiola will be keen to make similar progress in Europe having seen a much-changed side lose 2-0 at home to Bayer Leverkusen in their last continental outing. That result saw City drop out of the top eight but they will move back into the leading positions should they beat Madrid.

City have three games left in the League Phase and two wins will likely see them straight through into the knockout phase. The Blues face Bodo Glimt and Galatasaray in January in their final two fixtures.

Rodri, Mateo Kovacic and John Stones are out injured for tonight's tie and we will have all the build-up, action, reaction and analysis right here in the blog so stay with us.

Hello and welcome to a City Champions League night.

It's Real Madrid this evening, familiar foes for City in recent seasons. A campaign doesn't go by these days without the two squaring off. Madrid have knocked City out in each of the last two seasons and are ahead of Guardiola's side in the League Phase table.

But Los Blancos are struggling for form with boss Xabi Alonso under huge pressure and Real having won just two of their last six games in all competitions. So does opportunity knock for City tonight?