Champions League 2022, Classic Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City returned to the Champions League semi-finals after their best match of the tournament, beating Real Madrid by 4-3 points.
In one of the greatest Champions League 2022, semi-final clashes, Manchester City are 4-3 points ahead of Real Madrid in their second leg of a special meeting at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.
A stunning and ruthless speed game full of opportunities, individual brilliant moments, and some defensive errors, entertained the spectators but defended Manchester, which occupied half of the game, very thinly. Will leds to Santiago Bernabeu next Wednesday.
“It was a great game for both sides. We did a lot of good things. Unfortunately, we acknowledged the goal and couldn’t score any more. But it’s two games and in a week, we have one more game to play” said city’s manager Pep Guardiola.
City took the charge, 94 seconds later and scored the fastest goal in the Champions League semi-finals. After Riyad Mahrez broke through Real’s defense and switched inward to a killer cross, there was a great header for Kevin De Bruyne.
Guardiola’s team doubled their lead in the 11th minute via informed Gabrieu Jesus. Gabrieu Jesus scored four goals in the Premier League over the weekend, collected passes from De Bruyne and returned home away from David Alaba.
It was the first time that 13th European champion Real had scored two goals and quickly saw another goal in the Champions League.
Premier League champion City singed and pulled away Spanish leader Real, but Mahrez and Phil Foden didn’t take advantage of both promising opportunities.
It’s the spells of the game that City can still look back on as an opportunity to miss, and as they often do, Real has found a way to win the competition at the risk of escaping from them.
The goal comes from a familiar source, scoring from scratch when Champions League withdrawal Karim Benzema turned Ferland Mendy’s cross to the bottom corner with the best bulls 33 minutes later.
Guardiola could be allowed to marvel at the energetic and quality football of his team producing only 21 leads in the break, but there was a similar pattern in the second half.
City regained the lead of two goals eight minutes after the restart. Veteran Fernandino bailed out Foden with a perfectly timed cross nodded by England on behalf of the injured John Stones.
However, two minutes later, Fernandinho was captured and his fellow Brazilian Vinicius Jr. slipped through him on the touchline.
After sprinting from the centerline to the depths of the box, Winger crossed Ederson with a great personal effort to put the ball in 32nd place.
Once again, the city has found a way. Real’s defense hesitated after Oleksandr Zinchenko fell to the edge of the box, but Bernardo Silva hit Thibaut Courtois with a spectacular shot in the upper corner in the 74th minute.
Aymeric Laporte of the city was punished when the ball hit his arm in the area after bouncing his head, and Benzema converted the penalty with a cheeky “Panenka” chip eight minutes ago in the middle of eight minutes. When it was even more dramatic end.
Still, City was looking for more, but neither Raheem Sterling nor Ruben Dias could cross the box and touch the dangerous ball, Dias slipped in again, a few centimeters away from Mahrez’s deep cross rice field.
The score should have stayed at 4-3, but for those who wanted to keep the game going, there were still 90 minutes left next week.
City, not yet the European champions, had the strange disappointment that they had beaten Real Madrid by just one goal.
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, after an interesting evening, was disappointed with the same sentiments as Guardiola, but his analysis showed optimism.
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