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In a game with many curves he took advantage of the City and ended up dejected Madrid. In Chamartín there were several matches in one. And many mirages. Each one had his triumphant moment when he was in more trouble. Until the Guardiola team, sewn unpublished at the beginning, recovered its usual format and ended up taking the chain to a Madrid that completely disoriented in the last stretch. So much so that he will not only have to paddle and row in Manchester, but he must do so without Ramos, expelled at the time of white bird.
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MNC
Real Madrid
Courtois, Carvajal, Sergio Ramos, Ferland Mendy, Varane, Federico Valverde, Casemiro, Modric (Lucas Vázquez, min. 83), Vinicius Junior (Bale, min. 74), Isco (Jovic, min. 83) and Benzema.
M. City
Ederson Moraes, Otamendi, Walker, Benjamin Mendy, Laporte (Fernandinho, min. 32), Rodrigo, Gabriel Jesus, Gündogan, Mahrez, De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva (Sterling, min. 72).
Goals
1-0 min. 59: Isco. 1-1 min. 77: Gabriel Jesus. 1-2 min. 82: De Bruyne (p).
Referee
Daniele Orsato
Federico Valverde (min. 47), Modric (min. 53) and Benjamin Mendy (min. 28).
Sergio Ramos (min. 85).
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
He maintains, convinced, Pep Guardiola that football belongs to the artists (players). It happens that in Chamartín so original was his test tube that gave the feeling that his boys felt outsiders. And, incidentally, they baffled Madrid. If the Real waited for an adversary to plead for possession, he faced a rival more predisposed to interfere than to govern. With the goal scorer Agüero in the shade, Gabriel Jesus, a life-long battering ram, received the initial mandate to lie on his left side to enchironar Carvajal. De Bruyne, the best draftsman of the City, was cited at the tip of the attack with Bernardo Silva to melt Sergio Ramos and prevent the Sevillian from articulating the game. So orthopedic seemed the bet of the English team as shocking was the substitution of Kroos, an essential expert in the Madrid game. In the short, in the long and stopped ball. Zidane gave Vinicius a reel, convinced that City's fanatic affection for cradling the ball would open spaces for the Brazilian, a bullet while pedaling. At the outset it was not so, because the City considered not to be the City. And without Kroos, Madrid was not entirely Madrid. In short, Guardiola and Zidane, Zidane and Guardiola, marked the future of the clash since the dictation of the lineups.
In the Bernabéu nothing was natural. To begin with, Ederson, visiting goalkeeper, kicks the ball viciously at each kick. The most exotic in one of the most uncompromising teams on the planet when giving up possession. Willing to deny Madrid even at the cost of denying himself, the City managed to leave his opponent without a soundtrack. He reduced it to a flat team. With more excitement in the stands than on the grass, the Spanish team did not find a key that put him in the game. A header from Benzema was all his offensive production of the first act. Madrid did not even entangle Mendy del City, the laziest of the English team. Nor when the man was loaded with a card. And also when Laporte was injured, and Fernandinho, recently recruited as central, became associated with the aforementioned Mendy. However, without boasting, much less, the Guardiola group disturbed Courtois a couple of times through Gabriel Jesus. The first occasion was well resolved by the Belgian goal. The second, after a mischief of the goalkeeper, was not a miracle goal after a rebound from Ramos that Casemiro cleared under the crossbar.
All too slate. A very laboratory match until the second leg started. City already bid to colonize the ball. De Bruyne took over and Mahrez appeared in the game, which put Courtois in check in a couple of shots. The world upside down. When Manchester was better off and Real suffered more, Rodri and Otamendi knotted the ball. Accelerated Vinicius, as optimistic in career as pessimistic when he runs into the goal. Arrived in the area and with the ramshackle visitor behind, the Brazilian attended Isco, who came whistling to send Ederson to the badge and stamp the ball on the net.
Goals are not always children of the game. And besides, they work miracles. Case of Madrid, which lifted the pulse when he took refuge as never on the ropes. And case of the City, which noticed the jolt. The trainers intervened again. Guardiola threw the tie to Sterling, a snake that with the book of the Catalan coach has also taken off as a scorer. Gabriel Jesus got ready as what he is: a battering ram. Zidane put Bale on the cracked Vinicius. And again the game took an unexpected turn. In the best time of the whites, De Bruyne, who was no longer a forward but the first violinist of the City, focused and Gabriel Jesus headed the 1-1. Ramos complained of a push that the referee interpreted as a superficial support. The City was already more City than in the whole night. As evidence, the governance of De Bruyne, leader of the party in the second half. And as a terminal test of the genuine City, 1-2. De Bruyne activated Sterling, who put one more gear when Carvajal arrived at the crossing. Penalty, penalty. He packed Bruyne. The architect acted as an architect, Sterling played extreme and Gabriel Jesus, who was already a battering ram, had not only sealed the tie, but took advantage of a tangle between Casemiro and Varane to swipe the ball and pass out when Ramos patted him on the right shoulder . The captain was expelled and the Real, already very broken, passed an ordeal until the end. He avoided major evils, but Manchester is as far away as the quarterfinals.
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