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Manchester City teach Real Madrid a lesson

2023-05-17T21:58:00.023Z

Highlights: Manchester City beat Real Madrid 4-1 in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final. Bernardo Silva scored two goals and Eder Militao scored an own goal. City will play Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul on June 10. Pep Guardiola's team swept the deadliest champion in centuries with an imperial Rodri. The most peaceful Madrid in centuries abdicated in Manchester before an overwhelming City that gave him a historical lesson. The constant movements of De Bruyne and Gündogan screwed the champion.


Guardiola's team, only stopped by Courtois, sweeps the deadliest champion in centuries with an imperial Rodri and will play the Istanbul final against Inter


The most peaceful Madrid in centuries abdicated in Manchester before an overwhelming City that gave him a historical lesson. A bath for the champion, who did not say a word on English soil. An ordinary Real overwhelmed by an opponent with more football and volume from the warm-up to the last stroke. A futuristic City on its way to its second final, the summit in Istanbul, where next June 10 Inter awaits it. It was useless for Courtois to stop Haaland, that footballer from beyond who left the tie dry. The same thing happened. At City there is no shortage of soloists in a choral table. At the Etihad, Bernardo Silva leads with two goals. He riveted the home group with an own goal from Militão and also took the mallet Julián Álvarez. A City with Rodri as a flag. A Madrid of jug, so musty that Vinicius, that first class powder keg, was a simple altar boy. A reflection of an incredibly flat Real, a wanderer around Manchester.

For England, a fossilized Real Madrid. An absolutist City. A team, that of Pep Guardiola, with a stamp of authority that even lowered a Madrid that usually goes for the European Cup from crush to crush. Nothing to do with the drudgered and hesitant City of Chamartín. In the lap, a team with tonnage, sharp.

At the head of the citizen, Rodri, who has long fit the field in his boots. Ahead, flyers in flocks, case of Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne and Gündogan. As a soundtrack in the area of Courtois, Haaland, who missed two headers only because in front was the Belgian goal, who interfered with his right hip as well as with a categorical clap. He did not tune into the real, mummified, of miranda. No drops of Kroos and Modric. Not a breath of Valverde. Not a pinch Monjil of Vinicius, with Rodrygo and Benzema out of focus. A stranded Madrid, unexpectedly apolillado, only supported by the scaffolding of Courtois.

Bernardo Silva tormented Camavinga and Grealish was more unruly than in the first leg against Carvajal. The constant movements of De Bruyne and Gündogan screwed the champion, gagged in each round by Rodri – ruler of the base camp – by Stones, by Walker. A set with hook and skates and another rusty, nothing to do with the most real Madrid that frightens Europe. You see, the first visitor footprint in an adversary ranch took more than half an hour.

Julian Alvarez scores the fourth goal for Manchester City. MOLLY DARLINGTON (REUTERS)

Manchester City players Erling Haaland, Ruben Dias and Manuel Akanji celebrate Manchester City's third goal, scored on own goal by Militao. Associated Press/LaPresseJon Super (APS)

Thibaut Courtois saves a chance after a Haaland shot.JASON CAIRNDUFF (Action Images via Reuters)

Defender Eder Militao defends the ball in front of striker Haaland. OLI SCARFF (AFP)

Vinicius Junior tries to break through between Manchester City players Kyle Walker and Kevin De Bruyne. PAUL ELLIS (AFP)

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti gives instructions from the sidelines. DAVID RAWCLIFFE (EFE)

Referee Szymon Marciniak warns Real Madrid defender Eder Militao.CARL RECINE (EL PAÍS)

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema takes the ball into midfield after Manchester City's second goal. James Gill - Danehouse (Getty Images)

Courtois looks at the ball after Bernardo Silva's second goal for Manchester City. CARL RECINE (REUTERS)

One of the many offensive actions of Manchester City on the goal of Real Madrid in the first half of the match. JASON CAIRNDUFF (Action Images via Reuters)

Manchester City defender Kyle Walker marks Real Madrid striker Vinicius Junior. ADAM VAUGHAN (EFE)

Vinicius Junior receives instructions from Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti. OLI SCARFF (AFP)

Bernardo Silva celebrates with the Manchester City fans the goal with which he opened the scoring. Associated Press/LaPresseJon Super (APS)

Pep Guardiola celebrates Manchester City's second goal. Michael Regan (Getty Images)

Manchester City's Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva opens the scoring. PAUL ELLIS (AFP)

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blocks Haaland's shot with one hand. JASON CAIRNDUFF (Action Images via Reuters)

Striker Erling Haaland shoots on goal. PAUL ELLIS (AFP)

Pep Guardiola laments one of the many missed chances Manchester have had in the opening minutes of the game. Jon Super (AP)

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blocks a shot from Norwegian striker Erling HaalandOLI SCARFF (AFP)

Kevin De Bruyne controls the ball in the presence of Toni Kroos. JASON CAIRNDUFF (Action Images via Reuters)

Luka Modric runs after the ball chased by Bernardo Silva. Associated Press/LaPresseJon Super (APS)

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti on the visiting bench. ADAM VAUGHAN (EFE)

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on the bench before the game. MOLLY DARLINGTON (REUTERS)

Real Madrid and Manchester City coaches Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola embrace at the start of the match. ADAM VAUGHAN (EFE)

The starting eleven of Real Madrid, in the second leg of the semifinals of the Champions League. CARL RECINE (REUTERS)

Manchester City's starting eleven, in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals. ADAM VAUGHAN (EFE)

Bernardo Silva took advantage of the local abduction. City were a round table when De Bruyne plugged the Portuguese into Courtois' area. Kroos, as stiff as any comrade, arrived at the tune and the Portuguese successfully charged Courtois. City went back and forth; Real was anywhere but Manchester. The most unreal and Siberian Madrid that could be googled.

Being Real it was suspected that such a muddy team, with so much skin in sight, was just a parenthesis. That seemed when Kroos shook Ederson's crossbar. A mirage. Immediately, a palique between Grealish and Gündogan led to a rejection of Militão. Bernardo Silva, a tern in the area, vector of those of Guardiola, hunted head the 2-0. A City without the Bernabéu fogueo; a Real without fang, wounded. So brittle that even Modric, the great Modric, was corked. Like Benzema, like everyone else. Nothing to do with City, no longer the City of the first leg that was limited to fiddling with the ball. This time, a more genuine team, in constant movement, capable of distracting when convenient, of looking for the colleague when necessary, of confusing the rival if necessary. There was no detectable premises. With Guardiola in charge, a chess City player, where Bernardo Silva approached the same as De Bruyne or Gündogan, either on the sides or through the interior corridors. In this celestial Manchester everyone has more than one script. For Madrid nothing was familiar, every foreign challenge was a sudoku for visitors. The English team lacked the axe of Haaland, that heavyweight who moves like a super featherweight, this time guarded by Militão. Better said, by Courtois, who frustrated him for the third time with a rejection with his right tibia in a fencer challenge with the Norwegian. The ball went to the crossbar. A thread for Real, in which, even with greater bite in the second act, he had no reel even with the usually cheeky Vinicius. Nor with the praetorians Modric and Kroos, the first that Ancelotti sent to the dark room.

Madrid was still ghostly when a shot from Akanji bounced off Militão: 3-0. The most common champion in times, to the canvas. Not one more scribble against Ederson, except for a free-kick from Alaba and a final outburst from the only Benzema of the night. The Frenchman is as frightened as Rodrygo... Like everything in the Real except Courtois.

The match, from start to finish, was the business of Rodri, the new captain of Spain, the best sequel in centuries of Busquets. Rodri for the remove. Rodri to channel. A Rodri as baggage of a City that swept the champion. Guardiola moment. City moment. An earthquake for the Real.

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Source: elparis

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