Real Madrid vs Manchester City: Champions League Showdown

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00:00 Depending on your perspective, this is either the best thing that could have happened or

00:06 the worst thing that could have happened.

00:08 You know, if you are an Arsenal fan, best thing that could have happened.

00:11 If you are an Atletico Madrid fan, you're like, absolutely, you know, let Manchester

00:15 City take care of this team.

00:16 If you go back and look at the history of Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, if

00:22 Real Madrid didn't exist or if Real Madrid was just a little bit worse, we probably would

00:26 have seen Diego Simeone with multiple Champions League trophies.

00:30 I believe the record is he has been eliminated by Real Madrid five times in the knockout

00:36 rounds of the Champions League.

00:38 Pretty crazy for one guy to be that unlucky.

00:41 And I honestly, I think probably if you are Manchester City, you're like, yeah, let's

00:46 get it out of the way now.

00:48 Let's just do it in the quarterfinal because Real Madrid definitely are pretty clearly

00:52 the second best team remaining.

00:55 City would be huge favorites over definitely over Barcelona and PSG and pretty decently

01:01 sized favorites over Bayern Munich and big favorites over Atletico Madrid and Dortmund.

01:06 This is going to be, I mean, Real Madrid is the second best team in the world, which is

01:10 why it's so interesting in the futures markets for two teams who play each other, obviously

01:16 disqualifying one or the other from winning our first and second in the odds just because

01:21 they are that much better than everyone else.

01:23 And it's kind of a weird year in world football with some of the biggest and richest teams

01:28 struggling a little bit and some of the other biggest and richest teams not even advancing

01:33 to this stage of the tournament.

01:36 But I anticipate this being, these two games are probably going to be two of the better

01:43 games we see of the entire year.

01:45 Maybe we will get another Man City Liverpool game in the FA Cup final and that would rival

01:51 it, but I'm really looking forward to this tie.

01:55 (upbeat music)