Real Madrid vs Man City LIVE: Champions League result and final score after six-goal thriller

2 mins: What a start!

Aurelien Tchouameni brings down Jack Grealish and gifts Manchester City a free kick in a dangerous area. Grealish and Bernardo Silva stand over the ball.

It’s Bernardo who takes it and he whips a low effort around the wall. Andriy Lunin scrambles across his goalline and gets a hadn to the ball but he can’t keep it out and City take the lead.

Manchester City get the ball rolling in Spain. It’s booted over to the right wing but Vinicius Junior brings it under control. He bombs down the line and cuts across from the byline.

Jude Bellingham yells for the ball inside the box but City deal with the cutback without too much trouble.

Here come the teams.

The players walk up the steps and come out of the tunnel at the Bernabeu. The fans are making a lot of noise and with the roof closed there’s a vibrating atmosphere around the ground.

This is a match too close to call, who will end up on top?

Kick off is up next...

Real Madrid are making their 20th Champions League quarter-final appearance, behind only Bayern Munich (22). They have won their last 11 ties at this stage of the competition.

Also, this match is Madrid’s 28th Champions League campaign, a competition record they share with Barcelona. Madrid have qualified for the knockout rounds in all 28 campaigns and have won their section 20 times including each of the last four.

Pep Guardiola has urged his Manchester City side to hurt and punish Real Madrid as they clash again in the Champions League.

The holders take on the competition’s record 14-time winners in the first leg of their quarter-final at the Bernabeu on Tuesday.

It is the third successive season the two clubs have met in the knockout stages, with Real having staged a stunning comeback to win the 2022 semi-final but City avenging that loss 12 months later.

The second-leg loss at Madrid in the 2021/22 semi-finals is City’s only defeat in their last 12 games against Spanish sides, a run that includes eight victories.

The 2-1 victory at Madrid in the 2019/20 Champions League round of 16 first leg is City’s only knockout win in their nine games away to a Spanish club (three draws, five defeats).

Manchester City have already faced Spanish opposition this season, beating Sevilla 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the Super Cup in Piraeus.

Pep Guardiola’s side won 4-0 at Sevilla on Matchday 1 last season, only their fourth victory in their 15 visits to Spain (three draw, eight defeats).

A couple of years after their then chief executive Garry Cook had said Manchester City were on course to become “the biggest and best club in the world”, the scoreline suggested he had a point. It was September 2012, a year after Cook had resigned, and City’s second Champions League campaign was off to a spectacular start. With five minutes to go of their opening game, Aleksandar Kolarov scored with a free kick to put them 2-1 up. Against Real Madrid. At the Bernabeu.

Then came the comeback, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring. It would not be the last injury-time goal City conceded in the Bernabeu but it was an illustration of Real’s ability to strike back on behalf of the established order. City didn’t win a game in that Champions League campaign, propping up their group. Real got to their semi-finals; even that was scarcely a success by their standards.

As they return to the Spanish capital for a sixth visit in a dozen years, City have eight wins already in this season’s competition, 10 in a row since drawing at the Bernabeu last year. For all Cook’s bravado and City’s silverware, many would still anoint Real the world’s biggest club. Yet City’s treble last year gave them a claim to be the best team. But for the fact they were drawn against each other, they would probably be the two favourites now; even before then, each felt the likeliest side to stop the other.

Real Madrid’s record in two-legged knockout ties against English clubs is now 13 wins and seven defeats.

Wins against Liverpool and Chelsea last season prior to losing to City have made it eight aggregate victories in the last 11, although their last three Champions League eliminations have all been to Premier League opponents.

Chelsea in the 2020/21 semi-finals and City in the 2019/20 round of 16 and 2022/23 semi-finals.

Pep Guardiola’s City were 2-1 winners in both legs against Zinédine Zidane’s Madrid in the 2019/20 Champions League round of 16 despite falling behind in the first leg at the Bernabéu when Isco gave the home side a 60th-minute lead.

Late goals from Gabriel Jesus (78) and Kevin De Bruyne (83), the latter a penalty after Raheem Sterling had been fouled by Dani Carvajal, turned the game around.