Vinicius Junior said "everything changes" for Real Madrid in the Champions League after his double dumped out Manchester City on Tuesday, taking the 15-time winner into the quarterfinals with a 5-1 aggregate victory.

Most of the damage for Pep Guardiola's men was inflicted last week in a 3-0 first-leg defeat at the Santiago Bernabeu.

A 2-1 home defeat confirmed City's fourth Champions League exit to Madrid in the last five seasons, including each of the past three years.

But the Spanish giant began the tie as underdog due to its previously unconvincing form, which led to Xabi Alonso being replaced by Alvaro Arbeloa as coach in January.

"All of us players know that the good games are coming, and that when Madrid play in this competition, everything changes," said Vinicius, who scored for Los Blancos in both the 2022 and 2024 Champions League finals.

"The fans change, the players change and we're prepared for more."

Any doubt over the outcome of the tie was quelled after just 20 minutes into the second leg, when City captain Bernardo Silva was sent off for deflecting a Vinicius shot off the line with his arm.

The Brazilian converted from the spot, and should have added many more, before he rounded off the scoring deep into stoppage time after Erling Haaland had leveled the game for City.

"It was a very important game for our confidence," added Vinicius on Madrid's latest victory over Guardiola's side.

"Since the start of the season we've had a lot of good games, but we haven't controlled them as much as we controlled this tie.

"It was a very difficult match against a great team, a great coach, where they had a lot of time on the ball but we knew what to do, how to work and take advantage of our chances."

Madrid faces a tough route to this year's final in Budapest.

It will almost certainly renew its rivalry with Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals on April 8, with defending champion Paris Saint-Germain possibly lying in wait in the last four.

Guardiola, on the other hand, believes his new-look City side needs time to match the feats of his earlier years in charge, after again bowing out of the competition to Madrid.

Guardiola bemoaned the chance to truly test the 15-time European champion due to Silva's dismissal.

Despite the scoreline, the tie was far more evenly contested than Madrid's 6-3 aggregate victory when the sides met last season.

City has embarked on a major rebuild over the past three transfer windows, with Silva one of the few remaining key figures from a squad that won four consecutive Premier League titles under Guardiola between 2021 and 2024.

Guardiola's men, though, have an immediate chance to bounce back when they face Arsenal in the League Cup final on Sunday.

But, City still trails the Gunners by nine points in the Premier League title race and faces Liverpool in the FA Cup quarterfinals next month.

"Still, we are not complete. Still, there are things in certain moments (where) we need to be more clinical, but my feeling is it will be a question of time," said Guardiola, who has won 15 major trophies during his decade in charge at the Etihad Stadium.

"We are not a complete team, that is a reality. I've been in charge at Manchester City where we were a team in all aspects.

"Still we are not, but we have a final on Sunday, FA Cup against Liverpool and the Premier League is still tight.

"We need to finish the Premier League strong, make good decisions in the summer and, next season, we will be back in the Champions League."

Guardiola did lead City to Champions League glory in 2022-23, but just one European crown in 10 years is the one slight blemish on his record at the club.

However, he said he wants City to aspire to the demands of Madrid, where anything other than winning the competition is deemed a failure.

"I would love this club to be like Madrid, where if you don't win the Champions League, it is a failure. That is pressure.

"(At) City, it is not the expectation. In time, maybe we will get that."