Manchester City star Bernardo Silva is confident of victory ahead of their Champions League semi-final meeting with Real Madrid.

Madrid beat City 6-5 on aggregate in the semi-final last season before beating Liverpool in the final to win the Champions League.

However, Silva feels this season will be different.

“We have a lot of respect for them, yes, but not any fear at all. Why should we fear them?” said the Portuguese midfielder.

“We’ll try to keep the momentum we’ve built over two months to arrive very confident to beat them, knowing they won the Champions League last season for a reason.”

Silva named four players he believes are helping Real Madrid win games. The four players he mentioned are Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema.

“It’s not about the badge, It’s never about the badge,” he maintained.

“It’s about the players that are on the pitch. If Madrid didn’t have Modric, Kroos, Vinicius, Benzema — I could say all of them — they wouldn’t win anything because the shirt doesn’t do it on its own.

“We’d be stupid not to respect them but we have that goal knowing we lost last year in tough circumstances. This time we will try to make it different.”