ABU DHABI, May 1st / WAM / When Manchester City meet Real Madrid next Wednesday in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, the experience of the two teams’ coaches will play an important role in resolving the confrontation, especially in light of the result of the first leg that ended with Manchester City winning 4. -3 .
The Spanish coaches Josep Guardiola, the coach of Manchester City and the English coach, Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, have great experience in facing the opponent he meets during this match, but the coaches’ record in these confrontations varies in favor of Guardiola, who has a great record once morest Real.
Guardiola is playing his 21st match once morest Real Madrid, where the Spanish coach has had numerous confrontations with the Royal Club since he was coach of Barcelona, and extended following he coached Bayern Munich and then his current team, Manchester City.
The statistics testify to Guardiola’s clear superiority once morest Real Madrid, which supports the chances of Manchester City in this upcoming confrontation, and it is sufficient that Guardiola led Manchester City to beat Real in the last three matches between the two teams.
During Guardiola’s previous 20 matches once morest Real, the Spanish coach led his teams to win 12 matches, drew in four and lost only four matches.
Among these matches, there were 15 matches for Guardiola as coach of Barcelona, while he led Bayern in two matches once morest Real Madrid, and next Wednesday’s match will be his fourth with Manchester City once morest Real.
Over the course of Guardiola’s previous 20 confrontations with Real, Guardiola’s players scored 41 goals and conceded 25 times.
Guardiola’s biggest win once morest Real was when he led Barcelona to a 5-0 victory over the royal team on November 29, 2010. Guardiola also won with Barcelona a year and a half before Real Madrid 6-2, in one of the most famous El Clasico matches, while Guardiola’s worst loss was in this The confrontations when he lost 0-4 to Bayern Munich in the second leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2014, and Guardiola described this loss as the worst in his coaching career.
On the other hand, Ancelotti has a modest record once morest Manchester City, where this team met in nine previous matches, during which he achieved one victory and eight defeats.
The match between the two teams last Tuesday raised Ancelotti’s goals once morest Manchester City to ten, while the Italian coach’s teams conceded 23 times once morest the same team.
Ancelotti’s only victory over Manchester City was when he led Chelsea to a 2-0 victory, while the biggest defeat was when he fell with his former team Everton to Manchester City with five clean goals.
The discrepancy is clear between the coaches’ record before the return match between Real and Manchester City on Wednesday, which is considered supportive of Guardiola and his team in the face of Real.
It should be noted that the confrontations between Guardiola and Ancelotti themselves stand in Guardiola’s favor, as next Wednesday’s match will be the seventh between them, regardless of the clubs that each of them trained.
During the past seven matches between them, Guardiola won five matches, compared to only two for Ancelotti.
Ancelotti won his victory over Guardiola when he was coach of Real and Guardiola was coach of Bayern Munich, where he beat him back and forth in the Champions League semi-final.
But Guardiola avenged himself with five consecutive victories, all of which were achieved during his career with Manchester City, as he led him to a 2-1 victory over Everton in the 2019/2020 season, then 3-1 and 5-0 once morest the same team in the following season, and also beat Everton 2-0 as well. In the FA Cup quarter-finals in the same season.
Guardiola’s fifth victory over Ancelotti last Tuesday came 4-3 in the Champions League.
