Familiarity gave birth to champagne at the Santiago Bernabeu as Real Madrid and Manchester City drew 3-3 in the quarter-finals in the latest breakdown of their repeated UEFA Champions League rivalry.
This is the third season in a row that Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti’s champions have faced each other. On those occasions, the winning teams won the competition.
After what happened in front of a crowd of 85,000 people under the new roof of this renovated football stadium, it would take a brave punter to oppose this happening again this time.
Compositions:
Real Madrid (4-3-1-2 from right to left): 13. Andriy Lunin (GK) – 2. Dani Carvajal, 18. Aurélien Tchouameni, 22. Antonio Rudiger, 23. Ferland Mendy – 15. Federico Valverde, 12 . Edouardo Camavinga, 8. Toni Kroos (10. Luka Modric) – 5. Jude Bellingham – 7. Vinicius Jr, years old (14. Joselu). Rodrygo (21. Brahim Diaz).
Man City (4-2-3-1 from left to right): 18. Stefan Ortega (GK) – 25. Manuel Akanji, 5. John Stones, 3. Ruben Dias, 24. Josko Gvardiol – 16. Rodri, 8. Mateo Kovacic – 20. Bernardo Silva, 47. Phil Foden (19. Julian Alvarez), 10. Jack Grealish – 9. Erling Haaland.
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City lost Kevin De Bruyne to a virus before kick-off but still took the lead thanks to a second-minute free-kick from Bernardo Silva, the tormentor of the Madrid leaders in last May’s semi-final. However, Los Blancos hesitated to take a repeat dose and after a quarter of an hour they were already in the lead.
Edouardo Camavinga’s shot deflected decisively past Ruben Dias before Rodrygo beat City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega with the help of a cut in Manuel Akanji. It was one of several events in which foreigner and fellow Brazilian Vinicius Jr exploited a City top line, without Kyle Walker’s recovery rate.
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TWO GOALS IN TWO MINUTES FOR REAL MADRID ?
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THREE GOALS IN FOURTEEN MINUTES ?
Rodrygo puts him in the back of the net?#UCL pic. twitter. com/pVrjkMJCna
Like the greats, City regrouped and Guardiola’s substitutions helped them dominate the second half. However, a superbly organised Madrid defence through Antonio Rudiger (the German centre-back once beat Erling Haaland by a wide margin) presented few changes.
Something special was needed, and Phil Foden came up with it. The England star had endured a frustrating night up to that point, but he picked up John Stones’ pass on the edge of defence to unleash a magical shot into the most sensitive corner.
If that had surprised Madrid, two minutes later they would have wondered what they were playing for when Josko Gvardiol walked from distance with his weaker foot. It was time for the Croatian defender to score his first goal for City.
There was no night to back down from the challenge and Madrid, buoyed by a majestic appearance from the evergreen Luka Modric, responded with arguably the goal of the night when Federico Valverde softly buried a volley from a Vinicius cross.
I can’t wait for the next sequel to the last successful Champions League franchise. You have 8 days to wait.
The recently released Netflix docuseries chronicling City’s treble win last season reaches an emotional crescendo in a final episode committed to the Champions League’s final victory over Internazionale. Veteran defender Walker was a wonderful omission from the starting lineup that night and implored his teammates to “make my dreams come true” in a stirring pregame speech.
Subsequently, the English right-back had strong contacts with Bayern Munich before opting to stay at City. He took over the captaincy after the departure of Ilkay Gundogan and never left the starting team, which is no longer as replaceable as in Istanbul.
That doesn’t mean Walker has been in the best form of his game and has at times stifled City’s control in the build-up through attacks. But they actually missed him when Vinicius and Rodrygo rejoiced. Watching his side be eliminated before half-time, Guardiola may have had memories of his Champions League opener against Ancelotti, whose Madrid gutted Bayern Munich in the 2014 semi-finals.
But instead of going against his instincts as he did that chaste afternoon at the Allianz Arena a decade ago, Guardiola doubled down. More complex stones in midfield, theoretically leaving even more space for Madrid’s Brazilian forwards, but in reality helping City impose a vice. -As a grip in the middle of competition. In the words of their coach, they began to play with ‘personality’, spaces began to open up and Foden scored the 22nd goal of the season of his life.
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PHIL FODEN: ARE YOU KIDDING, I HOPE?! ?WHAT A WAY TO LEVEL THE TIE. ?pic. twitter. com/mJut91l1aY
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GVARDIOL’S RATINGS AND MAN CITY TOP ? #UCL pic. twitter. com/8i31nBBQ1K
Guardiola’s game plans don’t make the left-back bigger after he doubted his injury and hit him with his right foot after a terrible first touch. But if he can get Walker back for next week’s return, the maximum of the other guards will be covered.
It’s rare to pick a centre-back as a strong point in a six-goal game, but most of those plays were the kind of targets that defenses can’t do much about. Madrid and City ended the night with an xG of less than one. Rudiger was superb in his surprised team’s long periods, challenging with typical musculature whenever possible.
Erling Haaland is yet to score in his 3 of the 3 games Rudiger has scored in the last year and the Bernabeu has roared every time their boy has won a challenge against City’s star striker. These situations dynamically turned demanding situations into a fast-moving atmosphere.
If an attack is fueled by adrenaline and abandonment, like this one sometimes, Valverde is your man. The Uruguayan foreigner would never be compatible with a star-studded forward line and lives in a Madrid midfield that is slowly adapting. Life after Modric and how much less he will shine.
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FEDE VALVERDE. WHAT STRIKE ?
Real Madrid are STILL tied. What pic. twitter. com/19U0XUhjCt ?
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REAL MADRID ARE BACK AT THE SAME LEVEL! Federico Valverde’s technique ?#UCL pic. twitter. com/1Zr61G8GxZ
But Valverde has the drive and tactical intelligence to play well in two positions and has been important in everything Madrid have done against City. Without possession, he stepped in to block out the small spaces where his creators like to make magic happen. As soon as Guardiola’s team fell into one of the traps set, they would come out firing, advancing and tearing towards the right flank. This left Rodrygo and Vinicius free to do damage closer to goal.
It was the kind of gory functionality that deserves a fabulous goal to savor but rarely gets. Valverde more than deserved his showreel moment.
Full-time: After City tore Madrid apart last season, it looked more like the 4-3 game at the Etihad Stadium a few years ago. After Bernardo Silva fired an early shot to Madrid’s chin, it would have been easy for them to break through. . Instead, they went head-to-head with the defending champions. City are still favourites, but everything is at stake in Manchester in 8 days’ time.
90th minute: There will be 4 extra minutes. Are those two shaking for the draw for next week?I bet on that.
88th minute: Modric, who has scored a gem, throws a delicious ball to his compatriot Joselu at the far post. Stones bravely clear behind. Álvarez came out to close down Carvajal when the corner was cleared and the veteran right-back shot wide.
86th minute: Foden pulls away from Camavinga, who catches him in the back of the ankle. Grealish goes off the road and it’s a goal kick for Madrid. Foden is still down. While receiving treatment, Joselu updates Vinicius. Alvarez is in a position to upgrade to City, possibly for Foden.
78th minute: GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!! Federico Valverde!!!
WOWWWW!! Another real howler. Perhaps the most productive of the bunch. Vinicius floated the ball over the City box and Valverde, who was at his most productive tonight, unleashed an unstoppable volley past Ortega. Magnificent goal.
75th minute: Gvardiol has just won a complete Roy from Rovers (or its Croatian equivalent). A terrible pass to let Madrid break and they bounce back with a thunderous attack on Madrid’s substitute, Brahim.
68th minute: GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!! Josko Gvardiol!!!
Oh, my word! Josko Gvardiol scored his first goal for Manchester City and what a time to get it. Grealish returned the ball to the Croatian defender, whose first touch was mediocre. However, that decided and he fired a right-footed shot into the far corner. What a game it is!
Minute 66: GOOO!!!OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Keep an eye on your task!!! Stones joined the attack, slipping an inside pass to Foden on the edge of the D. Surely erase one in the most sensitive corner. It’s wonderful.
65th minute: Foden writhes in a tight space. I can’t shoot well, but after all he seems to be in a position to perform his task tonight. Madrid are looking to escape quickly, of course. Valverde is on a motorbike but Ortega is fluffing up.
Minute 63: Oh, beware! Kroos is a bit messy with his challenge to Silva in the box. The City player remained on his feet as the play passed to Grealish, who won a corner. It was short-lived, not particularly effective, and Foden overthrew it.
61st minute: Gvardiol and Madrid may face each other again. Foden and Akanji stood their ground and the latter dispossessed Vinicius. Valverde then has the kind of shot that he hopes no one will communicate about again.
60th minute: Foden comes in from the right, we fly and he hits Lunin. Now that Silva is back in Madrid, he chooses not to look at Haaland and Lunin stops again.
59th minute: Camavinga hits Foden, helps to continue playing, says the referee. The City boy is furious. The attack ended when Rodri, unusually, made an offside pass.
56th minute: Nice save from Rodrygo, who frees up Vinicius. Oh, he deserves to score. Ortega fell behind and left the Brazilian star with a resolution to make and went berserk.
54th minute: Chance for Bellingham. Foden makes a stupid pass to Rodri, which bounces off the Spanish midfielder’s shins. Bellingham is on stage, turning before a deflected shot.
52nd minute: Silva prowls again, a brilliant dribble that ends when Rudiger makes one of those tackles that make the home side vibrate. He almost wasted his next task, a long ball to Haaland, but managed to clean it up.
51st minute: Silva’s free kick is not up to the task of his first half as he dutifully hits the back of the wall.
50th minute: Dias uncovers a fabulous pass to release Foden on the left channel. However, the cross was a little loose and Mendy cleared before Haaland could make his presence felt. City restarted and Grealish fouled Vinicius, who gave him a lot of money. . I’m not sure how smart Jack’s Portuguese is.
49th minute: Silva, who has been a trouble-free City player so far, orchestrates an attack that ends with Grealish slashing his right foot and a slap in the face. De Bruyne warms up with an organization of submarines.
Minute 46: We’re back on the road. There is no replacement at the moment on either side. I know how much Kevin De Bruyne has in it/if the tablets have already worked. . .
Break: The final minute of the phase saw a long period of ownership by City, followed by Madrid overtaking them. It’s this trend that led to a highly visible game and leaves both coaches with work to do.
44th minute: Grealish slides a pass to Rodri, who crosses from the left channel to Haaland at the far post. It goes all the way down Rudiger’s back and it’s a goal kick.
42nd minute: Rodrygo runs again, City go backwards again. Once again, Ortega positions himself better and hits the shot. It’s because of the traffic on the right of City’s defence at the moment.
39th minute: Rodrygo arrives in a moment of challenge with Akanji and wants treatment. City kept attacking until Foden produced either an overly ambitious shot from the right flank or a fantastic cross.
37th minute: Bellingham intervenes to dispossess his teammate Foden. Madrid are setting traps very well at the moment. Vinicius has room to run again, receives a foul through Akanji and receives a yellow card.
36th minute: Bellingham gets a bit of revenge on Dias. That’s all well and good, but if he gets a booking, he’ll sign up for Tchouameni to miss the second leg.
34th minute: Dias makes a difficult but fair challenge to Bellingham, who remains on the ground. City kept playing but Rodri gave the ball away somehow. From start to finish, Madrid flew over Bellingham before Vinicius fouled Dias. .
33rd minute: Chances for both sides! Grealish exchanges passes with Rodri and Tchouameni gets an important block. Madrid paused the pace, Vinicius assessed Dias and returned to Rodrygo, who shot home from outside the area.
30th minute: Rodrygo cuts inside and shoots past Ortega. I’m sure Guardiola has to do some paints for his team to prevent Madrid’s aerial attacks. But now they have the ball again, in their convenience zone. If it looks too vulnerable, you’d think the hosts would have more goals.
27 mins: After all the chaos, we’ve had a quieter era with Madrid able to absorb City’s pressure and exploit any openings in transition. Without De Bruyne’s incisiveness in the final third, it looks like a rather fragile strategy.
20th minute: City have ownership, but Madrid push them back into their own half. Dias sends a ball to Haaland and Rudiger manipulates it. The Bernabéu crowd enjoyed it.
19th minute: Valverde cuts and releases the ball. A save in regime for Ortega, who presses the ball to his chest, but from City’s point of view, the headlines were worried again.
Minute 14: GOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!! Rodrygo!!!!
What a change of course from Madrid! City were stuck on the pitch and Rodrygo had space to run towards goal. Akanji returns to the goal, but that only means he deflects Madrid’s goal.
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TWO GOALS IN TWO MINUTES FOR REAL MADRID ?
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THREE GOALS IN FOURTEEN MINUTES ?
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14th minute: Foden finds Grealish, but his cross with the outside of his foot is easy for Lunin.
Minute 12: GOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!! Rubén Dias (OG)!!
Madrid return with a decent percentage of fortune. A few sloppy gifts from City allowed the hosts to create some pressure. Grealish allowed Camavinga to cut inside, his shot driving Dias away and giving Ortega a chance.
Minute 7: Good luck for Haaland! The angle opposes him and Lunin makes a rev stop this time. Madrid couldn’t get out when Grealish entered the box and saw a blocked shot.
Minute 6: Madrid look for a quick response, with Valverde running in midfield. Now there’s more room than any of the coaches will be satisfied with. Trying to feed Vinicius, Gvardiol cleared the Brazilian striker and flew for a purposeful kick.
Minute 2: GOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!! Bernardo Silva!!
Last season’s Real Madrid tormentor has done it again. Silva takes a left-footed shot down the left flank and one has to wonder about Lunin’s component in this, as he puts his palm on the ball and can’t help it. to enter. If De Bruyne had had compatibility to begin with, he probably took it instead. A fun old game.
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BERNADO SILVA stuns the BERNBÉU IN JUST TWO MINUTES ⚡
A free kick gives Manchester City a start to ensueño!pic. twitter. com/gKxaECiwAR
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BERNADO SILVA stuns the BERNBÉU IN JUST TWO MINUTES ⚡
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1st minute: Vinicius goes straight into the draw in the absence of his former sparring partner Kyle Walker. The center toward Bellingham is clear. Tchouameni then flew towards Grealish at the other finish and cautioned him after 42 seconds. You’ll miss the next step. Specifically, he potentially has 90 minutes with a yellow card as a centre-back. Best wishes.
5 minutes before kick-off: Here are the teams. The roof closes, let’s make noise. You deserve to be able to hear City fans booing the Champions League anthem, for example.
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25 minutes before kick-off: To find out why Madrid can avoid the cover-up they suffered against City last season, just take a look at Jude Bellingham. The English midfielder has been a revelation for Los Blancos, accumulating 20 Goals in all competitions. Tonight he will pass that risk to City, against whom he scored two goals at Borussia Dortmund.
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55 minutes before kick-off: A little more about this new wonder of Manchester City. City have briefed reporters at the Santiago Bernabeu and it looks like Kevin De Bruyne is unwell. In what appears to have been a belated replacement of plans, Guardiola has returned to what he appreciates most on those occasions: the midfield that can give him the “extra pass”. On other occasions, De Bruyne has been unavailable this season, and there have been five months of recovery. from hamstring surgery, and the City manager tends to favour Julian Alvarez in an attacking midfield role. It is felt that Guardiola felt it would have been too ambitious a move in a high-stakes match.
1 hour and 10 minutes before kick-off: Pep Guardiola pulls off one of his nightly surprises in the Champions League by leaving Kevin De Bruyne on the bench. That means the departure of Mateo Kovacic along with Rodri in midfield and Phill Foden as number 10. Erling Haaland. Kovacic’s Croatian teammate Josko Gvardiol passed a delayed physical check to start at left-back, while Stefan Ortega maintains his position in goal ahead of Ederson.
1 hour forty-five minutes before kick-off: the Real Madrid team is here. Carlo Ancelotti loves the first news of the team for a big Champions League match. On the contrary, it does quite well by its own standards. Aurelin Tchouameni will be her husband Antonio Rudiger in central defence, a midfield with Fede Valverde, Edouardo Camavinga and Toni Kroos, with Jude Bellingham handling Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior as expected.
2 hours before kick-off: An additional update on additional security measures taken outside the stadium in light of ISIS terror threats against this week’s Champions League quarterfinals. Sky Sports News reports that efforts were “stepped up” in the run-up to kick-off, with a heavy police presence in each and every corner of the stadium. Police vans are parked at the entrance of the groups to the stadium and the manhole covers surrounding the Santiago Bernabeu have been lifted and checked.
2h30 before kick-off: Madrid hopes that its fans will create a hostile atmosphere against Manchester City and raise the roof. Not literally, of course. It wasn’t cheap.
In a meeting with UEFA delegates and referee Francois Letexier, Madrid gave permission on Tuesday to close the roof of its newly renovated stadium. The roof of the stadium, now with a capacity of 85,000 spectators, was also closed when Madrid faced RB Leipzig in the round of sixteen.
Despite the hostility at one of European football’s biggest venues, former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola wants City to face each other. “We can’t come here just to watch the game. We have to come here to try to hurt them, to punish them. “”To make them feel like we’re here and to score goals. That’s what we want to do,” he said. But we’re talking about Real Madrid, who have skill in many facets of the game. We have to impose our game with who we are. “
3 hours and 15 minutes before kick-off: tonight’s and tomorrow’s quarter-finals in Madrid and this week’s Champions League matches in London and Paris will unfold against the backdrop of terrorist risk allegedly linked to the Islamic State (ISIS).
UEFA said Real Madrid vs Manchester City, Arsenal vs Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain vs Barcelona would go ahead as planned.
“UEFA is aware of the alleged terrorist threats against this week’s UEFA Champions League matches and is in close collaboration with the governments of the respective venues,” it said. “All matches are expected to proceed as planned, with appropriate protective measures in place. “instead. “
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told Sky News that security would be “significantly tightened in Paris following the “communication from the Islamic State targeting stadiums. “
Paris suffered terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015, with the Stade de France being one of the venues targeted by suicide bombers as France faced Germany in a foreign friendly. ISIS claimed responsibility for the atrocities in which another 130 people were killed.
4 hours before kick-off: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News’ policy on the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg between 14-time champions Real Madrid and reigning champions Manchester City.
From the Santiago Bernabéu ? pic. twitter. com/j4mrP7Qze7
This Champions League clash will take place at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, and will kick off on Tuesday, April 9 at 21:00 local time.
Here’s how this era came to some of the major territories:
Carlo Ancelotti will be without Thibaut Courtois and David Alaba due to injury in City’s arrival in Madrid. The veteran Italian coach opted for Aurélien Tchouameni instead of Nacho in central defence.
Real Madrid (4-3-1-2 from left to right): Lunin (GK) – Carvajal, Tchouameni, Rudiger, Mendy – Valverde, Camavinga, Kroos – Bellingham – Vinicius, Rodrygo.
Real Madrid substitutes (12): Kepa (goalkeeper), Fran, Militao, Nacho, Modric, Joselu, Vázquez, Ceballos, Fran García, Díaz, Guler.
Josko Gvardiol travelled to Madrid and passed a physical after being substituted at half-time in Saturday’s 4-2 win over Crystal Palace. Fellow defenders Kyle Walker and Nathan Ake failed to make it in time, while star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was left on the bench. on the bench despite scoring two goals at the weekend.
Man City (3-2-4-1 from left to right): Ortega (GK) – Akanji Stones, Dias, Gvardiol – Rodri, Kovacic – Silva, Foden, Grealish – Haaland.
Man City substitutes (12): Ederson (GK), Carson (GK), Doku, De Bruyne, Álvarez, Gómez, Nunes, Bobb, Susho, Lewis.
Here’s how to watch this Champions League unfold in decided spaces in major regions of the world:
DAZN
It broadcasts any and all UCL matches for the duration of the tournament.
LIVE & ON-DEMAND MATCHES
United States: Champions League matches can be streamed on Paramount (English). Recently, new users are eligible for a FREE seven-day trial.
ViX and UniMas are the ideal position for Spanish subscribers, and Fubo also offers streaming and a FREE trial for new subscribers.
Canada: All Champions League matches are broadcast on DAZN.
United Kingdom: This adjustment will be broadcast on TNT Sports 2 and broadcast on Discovery.
India: JioTV and Sony LIV are the streaming features of this game.
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