Real Madrid vs Man City LIVE: Kick off time, team news, odds and predictions

Manchester City will resume their battle with Real Madrid this evening when the two teams meet at the Bernabeu.

City and Real have already met this season, with goals from Nico O'Reilly and Erling Haaland securing a comeback win in Madrid back in December.

Erling Haaland should return to the starting XI tonight after he was included in the travelling squad. The hosts will be without Kylian Mbappe as he continues to recover from injury.

Follow live build-up, updates and reaction in the blog below:

We'll see. Last season we were quite poor in terms of mood and players that could play. See what happens. I won't say anything against this coach or the club or the players.

I know how difficult this competition is and for any other club if I play against any other team that is in this round they are all very tough teams.

I think there are some teams that can make it to the final, there are many strong and tough teams.

If you speak about last season, before the round of 16 nobody thought that PSG could be a strong candidate to win the final but things can change overnight.. It depends on the timing and how fit the team is.

Right now we are about to play games where you are in or out. You need to manage things properly. You have two games, sometimes you don't have to put so much things at risk. Every single detail can make a difference. In the Champions League details are everything and they can make the difference.

There are many teams that can win the Champions League, we will try to move on and make it to the end but there are very strong teams that can do the same.

Here's how Pep described it:

We arrive better in terms of we have the squad. Last season we arrived with a lot of fatigue and so few players available.

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