Real Madrid and Manchester City (3-3) offered a spectacle of twists and turns. A shower of goals, intensity and a breathtaking tactical showdown that made the European press dream.
In Spain, Marca hails the tactical adaptation of Carlo Ancelotti to try to counter Pep Guardiola. In England, The Guardian was disappointed by the duel between English attacking midfielders Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden. In Italy, La Gazzetta Dello Sport is talking about a meeting which ended with a logical score, because City dominated the second half with the help of a more help of "neither Carlo An Celotti nor Pep Guardiola deserved to lose this meeting’“. “It’s a shame that one of them got kicked out in the quarters!”, headlines the German daily Bild, which only had one eye on the spectacle in Spain, with Bayern's meeting against Arsenal at the same time. ‘The first played like Vinicius, and the second played like Benzema’, analyzes AS.