Manchester City and Real Madrid have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of tonight’s match | OneFootball

Manchester City and Real Madrid have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of tonight’s UEFA Champions League matchday six league phase fixture at the Bernabeu. Tonight’s match is crucial to Manchester City’s chances of securing a top-eight finish in the Champions League league phase table. A victory would leave Pep Guardiola’s side in the box seat to claim a place in the top eight places and the match is a chancefor City’s new-look squad to prove themselves. They’ll face a tough test against a Real Madrid side that is depleted but also under pressure after a poor start, by their standards, to the 25/26 season. City must beware the wounded animal at the Bernabeu tonight.

Manchester City enters tonight’s matxh with three players unavailable for selection. Mateo Kovacic and Rodri are ruled out of tonight’s match. The plight of Mateo Kovacic is well known, and Rodri’s return date isn’t known at this stage. John Stones has sustained a leg injury, but the timeline for his absence isn’t known.

Here are the starting lineups for tonight’s crucial Champions League fixture.

Manchester City

Pep Guardiola has no changes to the starting lineup that beat Sunderland last Saturday. The  ity manageris backing the lineup that played so well against Sunderland back up that performance tonight.

Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo Silva, Rayan Cherki, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.

Substitutes: Trafford, Bettinelli, Reijnders, Ake, Marmoush, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Khusanov, Bobb, Lewis.

Real Madrid

Starting lineup: Courtois; Valverde, Asencio, Rudiger, Carreras; Tchouameni, Ceballos, Bellingham; Rodrygo, Gonzalo, Vinicius Junior.