Madrid found the victory that he was looking for this season, the first against a great and the first in the Etihad, and did it very much in his style, with a comeback in a match that escaped him and in which he had been superior. The victory does not close the tie because the City will go to Bernabéu on Wednesday with nothing to lose and remains a fearsome team.
In fact, if the tie is not closed it is because Madrid failed the unspeakable in what does not usually fail: the punch. They have rarely wasted the white occasions so clear: 19 arrivals.
The party met expectations. It had nothing to do with the quarterfinals of last season in which Madrid was limited to defending agonally. This time before a City in low hours Ancelotti came out with the four above, willing not to get locking.
The expected eleven
Valverde de Lateral Right
The eleven was expected, with Valverde de Lateral right and Asencio and Tchouaméni de Centrals. The Canarian, with only 22 games in the first team, played as a veteran.
If whites usually have a bad staging, this time it was the opposite. They went out to bite with an advanced pressure and in the first ten minutes they had at least two very clear occasions, the first one hand in the failed hand of Mbappé against Ederson: the second of Mendy, who did not know how to finish off almost in the mouth of a goal before a forest of defenses
The mistakes in the whites of the whites put the City in the game and those of Guardiola knew how to take advantage of surgical precision because the first one marked, in the 19th, in a gvardiol pass with the chest that Haaland took the opportunity to beat Curtois. There were three minutes of suspense, which took the VAR to validate the position of the Norwegian, which seemed very much to the limit of the offside. It was the first goal that the Norwegian puts in his clashes with Real Madrid.
The City’s goal
Haaland premiered against Madrid
Madrid responded immediately with a blow of vinícius to the crossbar but Manchester City the goal felt good because it entered a domain phase although he lost to Grealish’s injury, changed to Foden, who immediately tried Courtois.
In the minutes of more anxiety Madrid suffered. Bellingham played a yellow one to stop one against in the center of the field. The Frenchman did not take it out and it was great news for the English because if he had taken it out he could not play the return.
The end of the first part was again a harassment of Madrid, again without fruits even though Valverde and Mbappé chute at a diverted door in very good positions. The second part began with the change of rich Lewis for Akanji and a good scare for Madrid because Haaland stirred with his corpachon in the area and took out a shot that went to the stick with beaten Courtois.
The tie
A goal by Mbappé Churro
The response was a winemaker and a Bellingham’s head shot that did not find goal. Then it was Mbappé’s turn, which forced a paradon to Ederson, he best of the City.
So much was the pitcher to the fountain that Madrid drew and in the most strange way, with a goal from Mbappe Churro that finished with the instep after a foul thrown by Valverde.
Madrid dominated and again Ederson took a goal ball to Bellingham. So many failures made those of Ancelotti one step back. It was a mistake because Ceballos rushed into a defensive action on Foden and hit him with his knee on the line of the area in a penalty that does not admit discussion. Haaland marked 2-1 in his first double.
The penalty
Ceballos knocked Foden
It seemed that Madrid had lost its winning gene again. But he recovered it in the last ten minutes. An error in the Ederson serve led to 2-2 at a Brahim auction after another vinícius.
The City collapsed with 2-2. It was a bunch of nerves and inaccuracies. Vinícius stole a ball from Rico Lewis and defined badly but there was Bellingham to rive another of the incredible victories of Madrid in Europe.
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