Jean-François Pérès, edited by Romain Rouillard 06h24, 09 May 2023

This Tuesday will take place the first semi-final first leg of the Champions League between Real Madrid of Karim Benzema and Manchester City, led by its serial striker Erling Haaland. Two clubs that shine brightly on the football planet but have built their success in a radically different way.

It is a confrontation that looks like a quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, football version. This Tuesday evening, Real Madrid hosts Manchester City in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League. A five-star meeting that will pit two opposing clubs against each other. On the one hand, the institution of Spanish football, the triumphant aristocracy, with 14 victories in the most prestigious European cup, making it the most successful club on the Old Continent.

On the other, the British nouveau riche, owned for 15 years by an Abu Dhabi investment fund. Two clubs that draw their success from radically different recipes but which both present a squad studded with talent, symbolized, on the Madrid side, by the Ballon d'Or tricolor Karim Benzema, and on the English side by the insatiable striker Erling Haaland.

"I think Manchester City will have an advantage"

A duel in the form of déjà vu since the two teams had already met last year at the same stage of the competition. A double-confrontation from which Real had emerged victorious, at the price of a stunning scenario. But this season, admits Claude Makélélé, former French international and legend of the Madrid club, it is Manchester City who impresses.

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"I will be a Real fan but I think Manchester City will have an advantage. They took slaps and matured a lot. Their workforce is very consistent. It will be a very nice game but advantage City, "predicted the former midfielder of Paris Saint-Germain.

A duel of technicians

This clash will also oppose two exceptional coaches. On the Real Madrid side, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, outstanding leader of men, winner of six Champions Leagues as a player and coach, is better than anyone. On the bench of the citizens, the Spaniard Pep Guardiola, the one who sublimated football but who has still not won the cup with big ears with the British club. For all these reasons, the very spoiled Madrid public is about to live another exceptional evening.