Manchester City face Real Madrid in an unexpected Champions League play-off after both teams produced an inconsistent performance in the league phase.
This might be Manchester City's biggest game of the season to date, but it sums up the way things have been going for his team that Pep Guardiola admits he doesn't know which City will turn up against Real Madrid.
Madrid head to the Etihad on Tuesday for the first leg of a seismic tie. It is the fourth successive year the two clubs have met in the competition and on the previous three occasions the winner of the tie went on to lift the trophy. "We’ve not been consistent. What’s defined the team over the last decade has been we are an incredible machine every three days, otherwise we cannot win six Premier Leagues in seven years or win the incredible trophies we have won," he said.
City's struggles have been summed up by their recent results. A 6-0 win at Ipswich was followed by a collapse from 2-0 up against Paris St-Germain. City recovered from that to beat Chelsea 3-1, but then collapsed at the Emirates to lose 5-1 to Arsenal. "We can lose at the last minute and the opponents are good, in the Champions League we have many cases during these nine years I've been here, moments at Tottenham or moments in the last minute we could go through, not through. But always we come back, we come back. This season we struggled a lot.
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