UEFA turn down Real Madrid’s Champions League semi-final request

Following their respective quarter-final progressions this week, Real Madrid and Manchester City will face off in their showdown Champions League semi-final tie next month.

Real Madrid saw off Chelsea with relative ease in their quarter-final match-up, while Man City did the same against Bayern Munich. Both will feel they are in with a great chance of winning the competition.

May will be a busy month for Real Madrid. They take on Osasuna in the Copa del Rey final on the 6th, with the first leg against Man City at the Santiago Bernabeu on the 9th, and the second leg on the 17th.

According to Melchor Ruiz, Real Madrid requested to UEFA and the RFEF that the first leg of their tie with Man City be moved to the 10th, with the return leg in Manchester six days later. However, that has been turned down.

As a result, Real Madrid will have just three days between the Copa del Rey final and their semi-final first leg against Man City, which is far from ideal for Carlo Ancelotti’s side, who are targeting success in both competitions.

Tags Champions League Florentino Perez Manchester City Real Madrid UEFA

55 Comments

      1. Manchester City need to win in their battle for the EPL title. I don’t see Madrid winning La Liga. Its irrelevant if league or Cup. Its equal importance. Madrid don’t decide.

    1. Pep please win the ucl for us this season like Messi did for Argentina this world cup please

  1. Real madrid good pretenders, after there usual tricks of bribing uefa and refs, they start pretending to be scared.

    1. You are just hallucinating with all manners of tantrum tantamount to lunatic person.😁😁🖐️🖐️

  2. Magic stadium….city will suffer to realmadrid are better they ave experience players city will suffer to beat real….Madrid will won

    1. Smiles …bribed UEFA with back to back to back ..then again …let ur team bribe UEFA also if it’s Easy …

    1. No it’s not his 💸 but he is telling the truth my friend how can you spend such amount of money and yet they can’t win the UCL?yes indeed

  3. BribELona should maybe go back to giving Uefa money instead of refs?
    Wouldnt it be nice to have this problem, ahahahaahahahah?

  4. Last season they had a free week as there was a Copa del rey final while City had a full programme.

    I cannot believe that they are asking for the game to be moved because of schedule.

    That is what a big squad is for. Suck it up like other teams do.

    They have won it more times than all the English teams put together and yet they are asking for preferential treatment.

      1. He’s right though isn’t he and you just do t like it nugget. Real Madrid are asking for preferential treatment and acting as if Manchester City have no say in it. Talk about self importance and privilege.

        1. If they had extended the date…will only Madrid benefit? Remember the game is between two clubs. Your reasoning that it prefers Madrid is of low substance. Extending will benefit both teams because they will both have the same number of free days and ample time. How is preferential treatment when both teams will have the same number of days at the end of it all? 🤔

          1. Youre talking to a provocateur with no brain and a lot of spare time (even more pseudonyms) who thinks he discovered troIIing. Ridicule it and move on.

  5. I pray City edge past Madrid and win the UCL cup for once. They ought to have learnt their lessons with Madrid.

  6. City at the moment is top notch. No resistance this time at all. Man city boys have both premier league and UCL

  7. The match between ac Milan and inter is on the 10th, uefa seems to prefer the two semi on consecutive days . football schedule are so tight now that minor changes often produce cascade.

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