Carlo Ancelotti says Real Madrid have to focus on stopping the entire Manchester City team and not just Erling Haaland ahead of their Champions League semi-final clash on Tuesday.

In the first leg, the reigning 14-time record champions host Pep Guardiola’s hungry visitors, led by Norwegian striker Haaland, who has scored 51 goals in 45 games across all competitions.

The 22-year-old has scored 12 goals in eight Champions League matches, but Ancelotti stated that his team’s strategy was to thwart a City squad that appears “unstoppable” as a unit.

“Obviously Haaland is a very dangerous player. He’s showing impressive qualities, above all in goalscoring. He’s a threat obviously,” Ancelotti told a news conference Monday.

“Just talking about Haaland means not talking about a complete team that plays good football, defends well, attacks, that has ideas.

“We’re not setting up for a game to stop Haaland, but to stop a team that seems unstoppable, but I think we can have chances to have an equal game, one that we can win.”

City’s efforts to win the Champions League have been repeatedly thwarted, but Haaland’s lethal edge gives them a good chance of defeating Madrid and advancing to the final.

Ancelotti opined that with Haaland in the lineup, Manchester City has more avenues to create danger.

“It’s a more complete team than last year. They had a very good forward in Gabriel Jesus, but he has different characteristics to Haaland,” continued the Italian coach.

“Today, they can take advantage more of long balls, because they have a very tall striker, and behind him is (Kevin) De Bruyne, so they can win balls in the air.

“They have not changed their style, they are very well organised at the back and a team that handles the ball very well.”

Former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney recently predicted that City would “blow away” Real Madrid in the match, which Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos brushed off with a chuckle.

Last season, Madrid defeated Manchester City despite losing the first leg of the semi-finals, and the German was quick to recall it.

“It was the same a year ago, no? That Madrid were out, and we did it,” Kroos told reporters.

“I remember words from last year, not Rooney’s — who is a guy I like a lot, apart from what he said — but it doesn’t affect us.

“It doesn’t motivate us more either, because it’s impossible to be more motivated than we are.”