This Tuesday, 26th April, Manchester City and Real Madrid will play the first leg of their Champions League semi-final at the Etihad Stadium.
The teams have only played before in the 2012/13 Champions League group stages. Real Madrid won 3 – 2 at home in their first game before a 1 – 1 draw in the second at the Etihad Stadium.
Unfortunately for Manchester City fans it seems that Real Madrid are set to be the successful team in this year’s competition. The bookmakers at Winner Sports have given the team odds of 7/5 to win while the odds on Manchester City are 10/10 and a draw has been set at 49/20. In the correct score market the shortest odds of 11/2 are on a 1 – 1 draw but Real Madrid are 4/11 favourites to qualify while the odds on City are 39/2-.
Manchester City reached the semi-finals after beating PSG 3 – 2 on aggregate in the last round and Dynamo Kiev in the round before.
Real Madrid defeated Wolfsburg 3 – 2 in the last round to reach the semi-finals after beating Roma 4 – 0 in the previous round.
