Champions League: who are the favorites in the semifinals?
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(CNN Spanish) -
The Etihad stadium saw an intense duel with a very good Manchester City and a Real Madrid that wanted to endure with goals from Benzema so that the difference was not greater and to be able to face the second leg of the Champions League semifinal with another face
This Tuesday, in the first leg, Pep Guardiola's team beat Carlo Ancelotti's team 4-3 and took the lead in the series.
The first goal was scored by the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, with a header, after an assist from Riyad Mahrez just after minute 2 of the game.
Nine minutes later, Gabriel Jesús, assisted by De Bruyne, placed second.
Karim Benzema, hero of the madridistas, scored the first of the meringues' discount in the 33rd minute.
In the second half, Phil Foden put the third for the citizens at minute 53, but two minutes later Vinicius Junior scored the second for Madrid.
The Portuguese Bernando Silva increased the score after 74 minutes of play to make it 4-2.
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Real Madrid's third came thanks to Benzema, via penalty, at 81. He was the man of the match and is the leader and benchmark for Real Madrid.
What Madrid fails in defense it makes up for in attack.
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It was a great match, the semi-final remains open and the tensions at the Santiago Bernabéu will be at their highest with two of the best teams in the world facing each other.
In 2016, Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid defeated Manchester City in the Champions League semifinal and later became champion.
Guardiola thus extends his positive record against Real Madrid, as a coach.
After the memorable wins when he was in charge of Barcelona, the defeats with Bayern, and the rematches with Manchester City: now with 20 games against the white team, Guardiola as coach has 12 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses.
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The second leg of the Real Madrid-Manchester City semi-final
The return match in the semifinal will be on Wednesday, May 4 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid at 3:00 pm ET.
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