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Can Pep Guardiola curb his overthinking to advance in his quest for an ever elusive Man City Champions League tile.

Manchester City: While City has close to a clean bill of health, Kyle Walker is suspended for the tie while Ruben Dias is still injured. This tournament has been a team effort for Atletico Madrid as they've struggled to score while being their typical stingy defensive selves, scoring and conceding nine goals in the competition thus far. In contrast to a Diego Simeone side that you typically know what you get, Guardiola needs to ensure that his team doesn't tactically self-sabotage as home favorites.

On Tuesday, Atletico Madrid visits Etihad Stadium to take on M anchester City in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. ET. Below, we preview the Manchester City vs. Atletico Madrid odds and lines, and make ...

As for City, it has the best defense in the EPL, and D Kyle Walker will be back from his suspension. As for Man City, it sits No. 1 in the English Premier League and has been on a dominant tear there. Atletico Madrid +900 (bet $100 to win $900) Madrid is led in scoring by F Ángel Correa and F Luis Suarez, both of which have 11 on the season. Atletico Madrid odds and lines, and make our best Champions League bets, picks and predictions. Atletico Madrid did what many were not expecting it to do - go into Old Trafford and come out with a 1-nil win.

Los de Guardiola hicieron lo posible por romper a los dirigidos por Simeone y se llevaron un triunfo que pudo ser mayor. | Deportes UEFA Champions League ...

El Etihad Stadium era una sucursal del manicomio tras la anotación. Pep Guardiola lanzaba una botella en la que pocas veces se le ve al estratega español de forma eurfórica. El Manchester City ganó por la mínima diferencia al Atlético de Madrid en la ida de los Cuartos de Final de la Champions League. Manchester City vence con lo justo al Atlético de Madrid en la ida de Cuartos de Final

Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid hunkered down and defended in its Champions League quarterfinal at Manchester City. But a single goal might be enough to ...

It had one, possibly, in the second, though there is a very good chance that it was meant as a cross. It did not muster a shot on goal in the first half. And it almost worked here, too, against Guardiola’s latest masterpiece, a team that remains all but untouchable in the Premier League, a team that most likely ranks as the best in the world. And it is in those moments, too, that doubt is sowed in the mind of the opposition, when even a team as fine as Manchester City starts to second-guess itself, when it begins to wonder if it should be committing quite so many players forward. It is in those moments, those rare forays upfield, when an overworked defense has time to recover, to reorganize, to regroup. He would, privately, be pleased simply to have escaped from the Etihad with his side still in the tie. Or maybe it was that brief, fleeting and possibly accidental moment when the redoubtable Geoffrey Kondogbia burst into City’s half, looked up, and saw nothing in front of him except a couple of light blue jerseys and a broad swath of green. The style is, when it works, difficult to love but easy to admire. The Brazilian’s ennui could not — as it often can, during the course of both the domestic and the European seasons — be traced to Manchester City’s overwhelming superiority over its opposition, to its vast financial power, to its supercharged strength. Perhaps the best indication of how Diego Simeone, Atlético’s coach, intended to approach Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League quarterfinal came in its first second. There was nobody else in his half of the field. He had stared, squinting, into the distance, scanning for some threat on the horizon.

Kevin De Bruyne produced yet another big European moment to give Manchester City a narrow lead against the champions of Spain.

An instant impact with a really nice assist moments after coming off the bench. Phil Foden - 7 Whether it's PSG, Liverpool, Real Madrid or Chelsea, you can usually count on this man to get something in the big games. Rodri - 6 Had a bit more to do after the break and dealt with it all comfortably. Ederson - 6

Marti Perarnau, autor que conoce a la perfección la mística de Guardiola desde sus inicios con el Barcelona habló con ESPN sobre el gran técnico catalán.

Sobre todo cuando se compara con su maestro Johan Cruyff de que él era un genio, él no tiene el talento genial de su maestro, es su opinión, nosotros opinamos que sí y por lo tanto, él considera que tiene que compensarlo con trabajo. Yo creo que se enfrentan dos estilos opuestos que tienen el mismo objetivo que es ganar, muy defensivos y no encajar goles, no quiere encajar goles y eso lo hacen de manera opuesta". "Hay muy buenos jugadores, no hace falta repetir los nombres, pero creo que hay un atractivo por los dos entrenadores y sobre todo porque vuelven a enfrentarse y porque sabemos lo que va a ocurrir. "Yo creo que después del Manchester City, Pep se va a tomar bastantes años de descanso, eso es lo que yo creo y sé que terminará en una selección, es muy posible, pero creo que habrá un paréntesis entre el Manchester City y su siguiente destino. "Pep y Simeone ya se habían enfrentado hace 6 años, cuando "Cholo" estaba en el Atlético de Madrid, fue una semifinal dramática por el que el Atlético de Madrid pasó a la final por el valor de los goles, ahora eso ya no existe. Yo creo que a Pep le gusta más vivir el día que no proyectar muchos años", relató en entrevista para ESPN, Marti Perarnau, autor que conoce a la perfección la mística de Guardiola desde sus inicios con el Barcelona.

El Manchester City se llevó el primer round ante el Atlético de Madrid con un triunfo por la mínima en el Ettihad. Le costó a los de Guardiola...

En los últimos tiempos, eliminó a Manchester United y Liverpool, pero no pudo con el Chelsea de Tuchel. y el de Guardiola no. En el Atlético, Llorente, Kondogbia, Reinildo y Joao Félix, en peligro. Llueven los centros desde la derecha y la izquierda pero el Atlético sabe lo que hace. Sacó la pizarra el City de Guardiola y ganó unos metros. El resumen de la primera parte es básicamente que no ha pasado nada que pusiese en peligro la portería de Oblak. Guardiola tendrá que pensar alguna alternativa si no quiere ir a Madrid con un resultado que complique sus opciones de estar en semifinales. Ahora fue Stones quien lo intentó desde lejos pero su disparo se fue a las nubes, igual que el de Gundogan hace un rato. La mejor ocasión probablemente para el City llegó en un saque de esquina botado desde la derecha. El City encontró lo que buscaba, a falta de 20 minutos para el final del partido. Fallo en las marcas de la defensa atlética, el primero. El belga no perdonó y la cruzó al palo contrario para hacer el 1-0 en el minuto 70. El City se va a llevar una renta mínima de ventaja a Madrid.

El entrenador del Atlético Madrid apostó por un bloque defensivo poblado y el contragolpe. En las redes no lo perdonaron.

Saben qué hacer perfecto dependiendo dónde esté la pelota en el campo, depende el ritmo del partido, siempre encuentran de forma exacta la manera de jugar”. Las redes sociales se encendieron desde el minuto cero: el Cholo fue apuntado por el conservador planteo que elaboró en el comienzo. En la previa, Guardiola había valorado el trabajo de Simeone y desmentido su supuesta mentalidad defensiva: “Creo que después de ver al Atlético de Madrid hay una una mala concepción de la forma en la que juega.

It wasn't a classic by any means, but Manchester City claimed a 1-0 victory over visiting Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their 2021-22 UEFA Champions ...

Ultimately, nothing else came to fruition for either side, with the teams now headed to Madrid for next week's second leg. Instead, they frustrated City's high-octane attackers for over an hour, until a moment of brilliance from Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne created the game's lone goal in the 70th minute, with De Bruyne executing a tidy finish past Oblak. The lone strike was all City needed to secure the first-leg victory, although the Sky Blues seemed eager to push for a second in the dying minutes.

Simeone has used these tactics to infuriate Pep Guardiola in the past, knocking Bayern Munich out at the Champions League semifinals six years ago, but ...

Atletico, meanwhile, fell into bad habits, subjecting Grealish to the most rough house of treatment in the closing stages. He did it with a quick dart and a slide rule pass, unleashing Kevin De Bruyne in behind to fizz a shot across Jan Oblak, firing the hosts into the lead in the tie. If they do, they will be lucky to escape with the same score as Tuesday night. If there was a brief moment where it seemed City's neuroses in this competition might get the better of them, it faded into insignificance set against those lengthy spells where it was apparent, Atleti could not just sit back and wait for something to happen. One could sense how tired Atletico were in their flurry of counter attacks early in the first half. The levee was only going to hold for so long. Better to have Bernardo Silva coming to the ball as a true false nine. "It was a very tactical game and each of us tried to impose our own game in this one." There is a tendency to look for higher meaning in such boring fare. He may well need favors from a City side that looked firmly in the groove tonight even if it never hit top gear. La Liga's reigning champions were lucky to escape the Etihad Stadium trailing only to Kevin De Bruyne's 70th minute goal after a game in which they had offered next to nothing beyond the small area in front of their box. In the end it did not.