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Manchester City face Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
Madrid have won just two of their last seven matches across all competitions, including a shock 2-0 home defeat to Celta Vigo at the weekend. The Blues have won seven of their last nine matches, but have conceded 10 games in their previous five outings, with the stage set for a frantic clash on Wednesday night.
Erling Haaland will relish the opportunity to shine on the biggest stage once again and has netted 20 goals in 20 appearances at club level this season. However, he has only scored once in City's last five matches, in what is a rare quiet spell by his usual high standards.
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Real Madrid plan to stop Haaland
Speaking in the pre-match press conference ahead of Real Madrid's home clash with Man City, defender Aurelien Tchouameni was asked how his side planned to nullify the threat of Erling Haaland.
"We're going to talk today about the game plan with the coach," he said. "We have many injured players in defense, but we have many players who can play in that position at a high level as well. We all have to defend together and commit to helping us defend well.
"We lacked intensity against Celta Vigo and we've lacked intensity in other matches too. If we don't play with maximum intensity, it will be very difficult to win matches, so we have to understand that to win that type of match we have to give our maximum. We didn't do that against Vigo but we have to do it tomorrow against City in the Champions League tomorrow.
"Manchester City are a really good team - especially with the ball. They love to keep the ball for a really long time. So obviously tomorrow for us it's going to be a game where we're going to have to be very compact as a team, especially when we defend, but also when we have the ball, to create opportunities with our strikers, with our offensive players.
"But it's going to be a good game to watch, a good game to play. We are looking forward to enjoying this game."
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