Manchester City midfielder James Milner believes that midweek opponents Real Madrid are ‘beatable’ in their Champions League clash.
The English side go into the meeting this Wednesday aware that only three points will do in order to keep alive their hopes of making the next stage of the competition.
For Milner, the prospect of beating Los Blancos, who sit second in Group D on seven points, is possible.
“We’ll be going for it, make no mistake and we will continue to believe until it becomes mathematically impossible,” the England international told his club’s official website today.
“We’ll be going out to win and unlikely as it is that we will go through, we want to win our remaining two games and give ourselves at least half a chance and if that’s not good enough, at least we can finish with our heads held high knowing that we kept going until the end.
“We are professionals who are representing Manchester City and every time you pull on that shirt you go out and give 100 per cent and prove you are worthy of playing for this club – I think we’ve proved we try to do that whenever we play and that won’t change on Wednesday night.”
The man pulling attention for this match is former Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo.
“You want to play against the best players and even though it will be a difficult job that someone like Pablo Zabaleta will probably be given, if I was asked to mark Ronaldo I would be happy to and do it to the best of my ability.
“He’s a top player, but we have a lot of very good players, too so we’ll look to keep him quiet and do the damage up the other end of the pitch and see where that takes us.”
