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

Real Madrid vs Manchester City kicks off at 8pm BST (9pm CEST) on Tuesday, April 9 2024 at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain.

The match will be shown live in the UK on TNT Sports 2, and subscribers can stream the game via the Discovery + app and website.

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Manchester City midfielder Rodri feels the team will have "more composure and serenity on the pitch" when they face Real Madrid tonight.

Despite coming out on top in last season’s semi-final, Rodri feels they cannot focus on that experience this time.

"We are going to face a different Real Madrid. Every season is different. We come here in some of the best shape right now for us this season," said the City midfielder.

"We have proved ourselves every time we played against them. This is the fourth time and in all of them we had great results, and the ones where we didn’t go through it was about 10 or 15 minutes [we lost it]. That’s not something we have talked about.

"We are are a more mature team. We have experience of winning this competition and we come here with a different mentality and composure. I wish and hope the experience of winning the tournaments helps us do things right."

Despite impressing in City’s 4-2 victory at the weekend, with two goals and an assist, Kevin De Bruyne starts on the bench tonight.

An update from TNT Sports claims the City midfielder has been ill so Pep Guardiola is taking no chances and starts Phil Foden and Mateo Kovacic in midfield.

Last season’s Champions League triumph was Pep Guardiola’s third as a manager – moving him level with Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley in joint-second in terms of the competition’s most successful bosses.

Carlo Ancelotti leads the way with four Champions League trophies.

Real Madrid and Manchester City will face off in the Champions League knockout stages for a third successive season, after meeting in the semi-finals of the 2021/22 and 2022/23 tournaments.

There were 17 goals scored across those previous four innings at an average of 4.3 goals per game. Real Madrid scored seven, Manchester City scored 10.

Tonight will be Carlo Ancelotti’s 200th Champions League match as a manager.

He has triumphed in 114 of his previous 199 fixtures in this competition, with his opposite number this evening, Guardiola, only just behind with 109 victories as a coach in this tournament.

No Kevin De Bruyne! That’s the main headline of Manchester City’s starting line-up.

Pep Guardiola makes four changes to the City team that started against Crystal Palace last time out. Oscar Bobb, Rico Lewis, Julian Alvarez and De Bruyne all drop out.

In come Mateo Kovacic, Manuel Akanji, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden.

No. 1 goalkeeper Ederson starts on the bench again with Stefan Ortega preferred after playing the last four games for Man City.

Here’s the team Pep Guardiola has tasked with defeating Real Madrid tonight:

Man City XI: Ortega, Akanji, Stones, Dias, Gvardiol, Rodri, Kovacic, Bernardo, Foden, Grealish, Haaland

Subs: Ederson, Carson, Doku, De Bruyne, Alvarez, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Susoho, Lewis

With the threats being made against tonight’s Uefa matches, security has been increased at every ground. Here’s a few photos from outside the Bernabeu ahead of kick off.

This week’s Champions League matches are set to take place as planned, with governing body Uefa issuing a statement on Tuesday to insist they are “aware” of threats allegedly being made in the build-up to the four fixtures regarding potential terrorist action.

Arsenal host Bayern Munich on Tuesday night and Manchester City head to Real Madrid on the same evening, with Borussia Dortmund playing at Atletico Madrid and Barcelona travelling to face Paris Saint-Germain a day later.

Images circulating online had suggested that all four stadiums would be targeted across the two nights, with their origins unconfirmed but linked to the established terrorist organisation Isis.