Former England captain Wayne Rooney has said that Manchester City may be having trouble keeping his nets clean in his next match in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League final on Friday, and that his defense line may face a real challenge against Real Madrid, the Spanish champion.

Pep Guardiola's sons won away from their stadium 2-1 last March, before the first European Club Championship was suspended due to the Corona pandemic.

But Rooney, who crowned the championship with Manchester United in 2008, confirmed that Man City had a great opportunity to win the title for the first time as well.

"This may be the best opportunity for City to win the Champions League," he wrote in his column in the Sunday Times.

"Sergio Ramos is suspended and this is a huge loss for Real's defense, and I think City will score. My only question is how effective is his back line?"

"Real will target City players at the heart of the defense, and this is a concern because this season, City lost to all the other six teams (at the Premier League level) this season ... Consequently, it was found that Guardiola's team was having trouble keeping the best teams out of the net." .

Rooney said he expected Real to leave his opponent to take possession of the ball and then surprise him with counterattacks.

And I added, "I saw Zinedine Zidane doing this during his first period in training Real during great confrontations with teams applying the Guardiola style and he achieved success in that."

He concluded by saying, "But I bet on City so far ... he does not have to make up and scoring ... so that he can afford to lose 0-1 and qualify for the next time."