Ruben Dias fires warning to Real Madrid as Man City team-mates distraught over defeat

Real Madrid staged a melodramatic precocious comeback to people doubly precocious connected and snatch a 3-2 triumph successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League play-off astatine Manchester City

Ruben Dias says Manchester City's players indispensable judge they tin propulsion disconnected a occurrence successful Madrid to support live their Champions League hopes.

Real Madrid staged a dramatic precocious comeback to people doubly precocious connected and snatch a 3-2 win successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League play-off astatine City. Pep Guardiola's broadside present look a immense situation successful beating Real to advancement to the past 16 successful the instrumentality limb successful the Bernabeu connected Wednesday.

Holders Real, who person won the contention a grounds 15 times, are dense favourites to scope the knockout stages astatine City's expense. But City defender Dias warned Real that Guardiola's broadside inactive person the firepower to overhaul them - arsenic agelong arsenic they judge they tin bash it.

"Now it's a substance of belief,” said Dias. “How overmuch bash we judge successful ourselves and judge we tin spell through? Obviously, we're aware. We cognize precisely the crippled that we're going to play there.

"We've been determination earlier and it volition lone beryllium astir however overmuch we judge successful ourselves. We conscionable request to judge the infinitesimal we're in. What we did earlier is not enough. We request to bash adjacent better, due to the fact that we're successful the infinitesimal we are.

"We person to clasp it and go much, overmuch better, different we won't beryllium capable to marque it. But the bully happening is that successful this squad and this club, if we judge capable successful ourselves and if we judge capable we're going to triumph it, we tin bash everything.

"We person capable gunpower to propulsion disconnected anything. But we request to judge successful it.” Dias admitted City's players were devastated connected Tuesday aft throwing distant a 2-1 pb with 4 minutes near to play.

It was the latest capitulation successful a crisis-hit play for soon-to-be-deposed Premier League champions City, with Dias acknowledging their despair.

"We're upset with it and of people it's frustrating,” said Dias. “You can't fto it spell the mode we did. We request to bash better. It's arsenic elemental arsenic that, due to the fact that successful the extremity we tin accidental each we privation to say, but you cannot let it.

"I don't adjacent cognize what to say. It's not an casual 1 to take, particularly aft the crippled we played. To fto it spell the mode we did successful the end, it's conscionable precise frustrating."

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