Manchester City and Real Madrid are going to take on on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 7th week of the Champions League. The match is going to be played in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The referee will be Clément Turpin.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (5 times or 62.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times) and 3-2-4-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Real Madrid with the following players: Joško Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Manuel Akanji, Matheus Nunes, Mateo Kovačić, Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Sávio, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Manchester City would be 27.91.
There are doubts about the presence of Ederson.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ Nathan Aké, Rico Lewis, Oscar Bobb and Jérémy Doku because of injury.
Rodri will definitely miss the match.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (3 times or 37.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 4-2-2-2 (once).
Carlo Ancelotti is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: Thibaut Courtois, Ferland Mendy, Raúl Asencio, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Federico Valverde, Dani Ceballos, Eduardo Camavinga, Jude Bellingham, Vinícius Júnior, Rodrygo and Kylian Mbappé.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Real Madrid would be 26.09.
David Alaba, Daniel Carvajal, Éder Militão, Antonio Rüdiger and Lucas Vázquez will definitely miss the match.
