Uefa Champions League semi-final, second leg: Real Madrid (3) v Manchester City (4), Santiago Bernabéu, Wednesday, 8pm – Live on Virgin Media Two, BT Sport 2 and LiveScore
Kevin De Bruyne believes Manchester City have to win the Champions League to change the perception of the club despite their recent domestic domination.
Pep Guardiola’s team will reach a second successive final if Real Madrid are knocked out at the Bernabéu on Wednesday. City hold a 4-3 advantage from the first leg. In the past decade City have claimed five Premier League titles, the FA Cup and six League Cups, with the European Cup the main prize to have eluded them. The 1970 Cup Winners’ Cup remains their only European silverware.
“I think it would change the perspective from outside,” de Bruyne said of Champions League victory. “As a player you want to win trophies, and we want to win this one. The fact we’ve been fighting for numerous years and getting to the latter stages means we’ve been doing really well.
“It’s a cup competition and the quality is very high so it’s very difficult to win it, but in the end if you look back at the way we performed and I have performed over seven years we have done really well. We have not won it, but winning it would change that little narrative.
“I don’t think it changes the perspective of how I look at myself as a player. I’ …
- May 4, 2022
