All of this is useless... We shouldn't care about it and they should trust their player as much as they want.
If we take away our City-bias and analyze it as football fans, we have to say :
The rest is fine for me. I feel like a lot of our fan will be shocked to see that Madrid is way better than they expect and that Ancelotti is one of the best manager of all-time. We have the best, but this is toughest matchup we could've had besides Liverpool.
Let me quote what Pep said after the 1st leg of R16 vs Real Madrid : "It's Real Madrid my friend!".