City forgives Real Madrid who leaves Manchester alive

The Real Madrid He returned to star in a new miracle in the Champions League. The Manchester City he was able to thrash the white team, but ended up seeing how the Bernabéu was only one goal ahead. The white field will be the one that will decide if Real Madrid or City go to the final in Paris. The one who does it will be the one who makes the fewest mistakes behind because the meeting of the Etihad It was a festival of defensive failures by the two teams that caused seven goals to be seen. Real Madrid played a bad game, but they get out of Manchester alive, which is what Ancelotti was looking for in this first semi-final game.

Real Madrid went to the Etihad in body, because they couldn’t help it, but not in soul. That stayed in the hotel or on the bus or somewhere. The eleven men he put Ancelottiwho bet on Rodrygo, They jumped onto the grass like someone who is going to play a game of singles against married couples. Well, not even that, because in those duels there is more tension, more commitment than that shown by the white players who had already conceded the first goal after two minutes. Typical and topical move of the City with Mahrez making the diagonal from the right, center to the area and DeBruyne, arriving only from the second line to score.

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Valverde he did not know that the Belgian was behind him, Militao he had gone out to the band to who knows very well what and Carvajal I’m late. In short, a chain defensive failure by Real Madrid that was being thrashed by City of Guardiola. One team, the English team that repeated in the 12th minute with so much Gabriel Jesus taking advantage of a blunder Alaba. Ancelotti’s men weren’t aware of anything that was happening on the pitch. City, meanwhile, continued to do their thing, playing and playing waiting for their opportunity. The only weak point of him, Ederson, the goalkeeper who has a lot of danger with his feet, but for his teammates.

Real Madrid clung to that hope of a goalkeeper error to enter the match, but the truth is that City continued to arrive with great danger and Foden and Zinchenki they had the goal in their boots. The solution for Real Madrid came from the bench when about half an hour Ancelotti heart a Modric y Kroos, disappeared until now, as a double pivot. That movement was key because Real Madrid could breathe easy, they had more of the ball and that’s how the first dangerous plays came. In one of them, Benzemawho else, scored 2-1 in the 33rd minute after a cross from MendY. City had forgiven Real Madrid and paid for it with that goal. Guardiola’s team pushed hard in the final stretch of the first half, but half-time came with that 2-1 on the scoreboard that gave a lot of life to a Real Madrid that seemed dead.

Festival of Defensive Fallos

The second part started with Nacho entering by Alaba and with a new chance for City, a double chance. New blunder of Militao that takes advantage Mahrez to stand before Courtois, but his shot hit the post. The rejection came to The foot who with all the goal for him, finished off the body of Carvajal. The English striker made up for himself by scoring 3-1 in the 53rd minute. vinicius fell asleep, did not follow Fernandinho who put a perfect center that The foot I finish at pleasure. Little did the joy last for City that he saw as vinicius he scored 3-2 in the 55th minute in a great personal action that exposed the entire English defense.

That goal opened a new game scenario. Real Madrid came up with vinicius generating a lot of danger on the right, taking advantage of City’s defensive weakness. In that vertical, direct football, the English team seemed a bit lost. I needed to have the ball again to calm down the game, to feel safe. And he did, while Real Madrid joined their lines to minimize defensive failures as much as possible. In spite of everything, a new error behind could have ended in another City goal, but Courtois avoided the goal of Laporte..

A goal that came in the 74th minute through Bernardo Silva. A new mistake by the white team who thought that the referee was going to call a foul Kroos, but the referee gave the law of the advantage and Bernardo Silva Ior took the opportunity to make it 4-2, that goal filled City’s gas tank in which Mahrez had the fifth goal. Real Madrid seemed dead again, but no. Laporte committed a penalty from the qualified fools and Benzema He did not fail from 11 meters. Like Panenka, the Frenchman made it 4-3 on the scoreboard in the 82nd minute.

Real Madrid’s defensive failures kept appearing and that meant scoring chances for City. The whites also had theirs, but the scoreboard did not move any more and everything will be decided on May 4 at the Bernabéu.

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