Man City have lost a Champions League advantage for Real Madrid tie

straight to your inboxAleks Zinchenko has broken the dressing room silence over Pep Guardiola’s Champions League tactics.The Manchester City defender implied that the manager got things wrong by picking three centre backs in the quarter-final against Lyon.And his fiancee, sports reporter Vlada Sedan, joined in the criticism, calling the tactical set-up employed by Guardiola a “bummer”.Zinchenko has been out of favour at City, only starting once since his mistake had led to defeat at Southampton,

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola insists Manchester City will recover from their agonising defeat to Lyon to attempt to reach the Champions League semi-finals next season.City were firm favourites to progress against Lyon in the one-legged affair, but were below-par on the night when everything went against them. Lyon deservedly led at half time, before Kevin De Bruyne's strike eventually pulled them level.

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola said his Manchester City players were well-prepared to play in an unusual formation before crashing out of the Champions League.The Blues began with three central defenders, but never truly looked like themselves until Guardiola switched things by replacing Fernandinho with Riyad Mahrez ten minutes into the second half.That led to the manager being severely criticised for tinkering with City’s set-up.But he said they had been developing it on their Lisbon

straight to your inboxCharlie Nicholas - Sky Sports - City win 3-1 "Most teams make chances against City in reality. Lesser teams in the Premier League have done it, as we saw against Norwich in the past along with other teams, so Lyon can do it.

straight to your inbox There seems to be some disagreement within the Manchester City squad over how much of an advantage the new Champions League format can be to the Blues' hopes of winning the tournament. Due to the three-month suspension of football across Europe, the Champions League is being played in a mini-tournament in Lisbon at the end of all the domestic seasons, with the quarter-finals and semi-finals being played as single knockout ties.

straight to your inbox Manchester City have landed lucky with the allocation of training facilities during the Champions League finals tournament in Lisbon. The Blues will face Lyon in the quarter-final on Saturday night, and flew out to Portugal on Monday afternoon for the unique World Cup-style finish to this season’s competition.

straight to your inboxJoleon Lescott says Gabriel Jesus needs to be more selfish in attack for Manchester City.The striker scored a crucial goal to put City 2-1 up against Real Madrid in the Champions League, seizing on a mistake from Raphael Varane to produce a cool finish.It was Jesus's fifth goal since football resumed in June as he continues to fill the void left by Sergio Aguero's injury.Speaking on BT Sport, former City defender Lescott said the difference between the two players is

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola warns Madrid victory is ‘just one step’Pep Guardiola gave his players a reality check after their aggregate win over Real Madrid, saying they will still be regarded as a 'small team' if they think the hard work is done after knocking out the 13-time European champions.Three games stand between City and the Champions League trophy, with Lyon to come in the quarter-finals as the final eight mini-tournament kicks off in Lisbon next week.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola and Manchester City have focused on how they can hurt Real Madrid as they look to knock the La Liga winners out of the Champions League. The Blues have spent the last two weeks preparing for as many situations they can think of to leave as little to chance as possible for the second leg of their last-16 game.

straight to your inboxJoleon Lescott is more confident that Nathan Ake would prove his worth at Manchester City than he is Kalidou Koulibaly.The Blues are close to making Ake their second major signing of the summer after Ferran Torres's move was officially confirmed on Tuesday evening, with the club having agreed a £41m deal with Bournemouth.That is not expected to be the end of their strengthening of the defence this summer though.

straight to your inboxReal Madrid's Militao confident ahead of City clashReal Madrid defender Eder Militao has made some bullish comments ahead of their trip to Manchester for Friday night’s Champions League meeting.Pep Guardiola’s men boast a 2-1 advantage from the Bernabeu, and the La Liga champions will be without club captain Sergio Ramos after his sending off in the first leg.Militao is set to feature in Ramos’ place and is confident of Los Blancos’ chances of turning the tie around.

straight to your inbox Bayern Munich director Oliver Kahn has admitted that Manchester City ’s victory in over-turning Uefa’s European ban has made it tougher for Bayern to win the Champions League. And the former Germany goalkeeper called for tougher financial fair play (FFP) rules to “get more balanced competition”.

straight to your inbox Raphael Varane expects Real Madrid's Champions League return leg against Manchester City to be very different than it could have been. The crunch last-16 clash was meant to go ahead in March but was postponed when the Spanish team were forced into quarantine before being rearranged for August 7 as part of the plans to complete the season following three months off owing to the pandemic.

straight to your inboxNew details of Manchester City's 2020/21 away kit appear to have been leaked as the club prepare to release the new strip on Monday.City will unveil their new Puma away shirt at 8am on Monday according to their website, and it is expected to be the black and navy blue 'architecture' design that has been 'leaked' previously.

straight to your inbox Fresh allegations made by Der Spiegel contain one glaring error which calls into question the balance of their investigation. The German newspaper has published a fresh batch of hacked emails which it says show that Manchester City misled the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

straight to your inboxHere are your Manchester City headlines for the evening of Tuesday July 28.It’s expected that the Champions League last 16 second leg between Manchester City and Real Madrid will still go ahead despite a positive Covid-19 case in the camp of the latter.News broke on Tuesday that fringe player Mariano Diaz had tested positive for the coronavirus, with the striker now ruled out of next week’s match against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.Despite this, Real Madrid are