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MADRID AND CITY WILL DEFINE THE KEY IN ENGLAND

Ode to Madrid and City football and completely open tie for the Etihad (3-3)

Published:9/04/2024 - 22:58h

Updated:10/04/2024 - 01:42h

Real Madrid and Manchester City tied in a great game at the Santiago Bernabéu for the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals (3-3). Two great goals from outside the area and an intelligence from Bernardo Silva allowed Pep Guardiola's men to get a great result

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Real Madrid and Manchester City fulfilled to the expectations in the gone of quarter-finals of Champions with a partidazo for the memory (3-3). The two teams traced back disadvantages during the 90 minutes and left the table served for the turn, the next week, in the Etihad Stadium, with a tie that leaves much better stopped to the valid champions.

The first part was frantic, to a very similar rhythm to the of the Premier League. The whites took advantage of the gone and constant turn for lastimar at the end 'sky blue' by the sides, mainly by left with the tandem Vinicius-Rodrygo. In the complement, the intensity went down a bit and the Madrid put very backwards, benefiting to the ones of Pep Guardiola to trace back in the Bernabéu and put foot and half in 'semis'.

The Madrid reacted fast to the error of Lunin

The party could not begin worse for the ones of Carlo Ancelotti. Before fulfilling the two minutes, Aurelién Tchouaméni, one of the apercibidos in the 'White House', was admonished by a fault on Jack Grealish. The fault was far and Lunin trusted putting to 'Vini' as only man in the barrier. The goalkeeper gave all the first stick expecting the centre to the area and Bernardo Silva took advantage of to finish by low, surprising to the Ukrainian.

In spite of the balde of cold water, the Madrid apegó to the initial plan. High pressure and fast game by the sides, with Kroos like only defensive pivote and Camavinga a bit more advanced. In the minute 13, the French tested with a shot from the frontal of the area that finish in goal after a detour in Rúben Dias key for to Ortega. The 1-1 desató the madness in Chamartín and, a pair of minutes later, Rodrygo gave it gone back with another lucky definition.

The '11' took advantage of a balloon to the space of his compatriot Vinicius to win him the back to Akanji with a career from own field. The defender 'cityzen' redid when going in to the area, but the Brazilian found a space between the legs of the defender to define with a soft finish of right. Valverde Tried it on the 20' with a finish to the hands of Ortega, while the City treated to find oxygen in the possession.

Rodrygo And Vinicius lastimaron at the end 'cityzen'

Ancelotti Bet by Vinicius as '9' and Rodrygo thrown leftwards, where better has seen him this season. The movement went out him well to the Italian, since the pair sudamericana found a lot of spaces by this side in front of the ausenia of Kyle Walker. However, the diagram desconectó to Jude Bellingham in the medullary, since the English remained isolated by the centre while Valderde did the times of right extreme. Further of some chispazo of Rodrygo and a remarkable work of Bernardo Silva like carrilero right, there was not more sobresaltos in the areas until the rest.

The City traced back to base of golazos

Both teams returned of the halftime without variants and, after a chamber of hour without a lot of occasions (a finish high of Vinicius in the 50', the only stood out), the ones of Pep Guardiola took advantage of the repliegue of the whites to install in contrary field. With the saga 'merengue' increasingly near of Lunin, the English had problems to arrive to the area.

Nevertheless, the spaces that did not find the team to enable to Haaland appeared in the frontal. In the 67', Phil Foden equalised the party with a zurdazo to the angle, previous assistance of Stones. Five minutes afterwards, Gvardiol repeated the formula, this time with a derechazo from the another side, taking advantage of the passivity in the mark of Kroos and Valverde.

Valverde Avoided the disaster of the Madrid

When the Madrid seemed 'KO', an error in exit of the City in the minute 79 finish in a pass crossed of Vinicius to Fede Valverde. The Uruguayan appeared totally only to splice of first, crossing the derechazo to leave stopped to Ortega. At the end, the tie was just and everything will define the next week in Manchester.

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