Manchester City beats Real Madrid from the start in the semifinal of the Champions League

A duel between two of the most fearsome teams in Europe is played this Tuesday. Real Madrid visit to Manchester City for the party of first leg of the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League. It is a face to face between two powers where the white team aspires to put the tie on track in the Etihad Stadium while the English team wants to take advantage of the locality to get better off next week’s revenge.

The game opened before two minutes, in an action as simple as effective. Riyad Mahrez faced from right to left, with the white defense in line, and launched a cross for the diagonal entry from the other end of Kevin De Bruyne. The Belgian threw himself into popcorn to anticipate his mark, Dani Carvajaland stamped the 1 to 0.

The local quickly took possession of the ball and with the advantage on the scoreboard, calmly dominated the actions. On his next deep attack, Phil Foden he reached the bottom on the left and opened the spaces so that, when touching back with De Bruynehe can comfortably launch a center to the perfect area for Gabriel Jesus. The Brazilian dominated from behind and turned to his left foot in a single movement that left his marker lying on the floor and allowed him to stay in the small area in front of Courtois to stamp the 2 to 0 at 10 minutes.

*Gabriel Jesus scored the 2-0

It looked like it was a party Manchester Citywho with the score 2-0 continued to create chances with Mahrez and Foden, but could not settle against a Real Madrid playing the role of spectator, without ideas in attack and with serious problems in defense. But the team of Carlo Ancelotti He showed throughout the contest that in adversity he becomes stronger.

At 33 minutes, Ferland Mendy was able to reach the danger zone for the first time and launched a perfect cross for Karim Benzema appears behind everyone, I won the position Oleksandr Zinchenko and, left-footed, define for the 1-2 of the Spanish team.

*Benzema discounted for Real Madrid

THE PREVIOUS

Teams led by Carlo Ancelotti y Pep Guardiola they meet again for a place in the grand final of the maximum continental tournament after the duel they played in 2016, when Real Madrid beat City and ended up winning the final against Atlético in San Siro to lift the first of the three consecutive ‘Orejonas’ that he obtained with Zinedine Zidane.

The king of Europe, with 13 trophieswants to continue making history in the tournament, although this time the Citizens They are willing to move forward to continue with the chance of winning this competition for the first time. After losing in the final last year against Chelsea, the Guardiola They hope to get back into another definition to try to reach a trophy that resists them.

The same thing happens to the Catalan DT, who after winning twice the Champions League with the Barça he has not lifted that trophy again. In it Etihad Stadiumthe Manchester City will aim to suffer less than in the quarterfinals against Atleti, whom they beat 1-0 on aggregate.

After lose FA Cup semi-final against him Liverpoolhas achieved two resounding victories against the Brighton (3-0) and the Watford (5-1) in the Premier League. “We want to compete against them (Real Madrid), it’s a great test,” he said. Guardiola at a press conference. His doubts are the defensive line, since João Cancelo is sanctioned for accumulating warnings, and John Stones y Kyle Walker they are in discomfort.

For his part, the Merengue also has an eye on the League, where need a single point and that he could win already next weekend. But Ancelotti also aspires to get his second Big-eared with this club after the one he raised in 2014.

“We’re not thinking about what could happen on Saturday, the League is much closer, we can win it at our stadium and we’re going to try and we’re very happy, but on the other hand, we have this game that we’re looking forward to”said Carletto before the media. arrive with David Alaba y Casemiro –will be an alternate– between cottons but with Karim Benzema on: with 12 goalsis only one away from equaling Lewandowski as the tournament’s top scorer.

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Referee: Istvan Kovacs (ROU)

Estadio: Etihad Stadium

TV: ESPN

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