Pep
Guardiola’s
side
made
a
stunning
start,
striking
twice
in
the
opening
11
minutes
through
Kevin
De
Bruyne
and
Gabriel
Jesus.
The
recently
crowned
LaLiga
champions
responded
with
Karim
Benzema
and
Vinicius
Junior
sandwiching
Phil
Foden’s
header.
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The
hosts
hit
back
through
Bernardo
Silva’s
stellar
strike,
but
Benzema’s
nonchalant
late
penalty
cut
the
gap
to
a
single
goal
ahead
of
the
second
leg
at
the
Santiago
Bernabeu
next
Wednesday.
City
made
a
flying
start
and
took
the
lead
courtesy
of
the
quickest
goal
scored
in
a
Champions
League
semi-final.
Indeed,
just
94
seconds
were
on
the
clock
when
De
Bruyne
–
the
hero
against
Atletico
Madrid
in
the
quarter-finals
–
headed
home
from
Riyad
Mahrez’s
delicious
cross.
De
Bruyne
turned
provider
as
the
hosts
doubled
their
advantage
nine
minutes
later;
his
cross
ricocheting
kindly
for
Jesus
to
tuck
away.
Mahrez
and
Phil
Foden
squandered
chances
to
widen
the
margin
before
Madrid
pulled
one
back
as
Benzema
brilliantly
volleyed
home
from
Ferland
Mendy’s
centre.
City
regained
their
two-goal
buffer
within
eight
minutes
of
the
restart,
Foden
ghosting
in
to
head
home
Fernandinho’s
cross.
Madrid
responded
almost
immediately
as
Vinicius
raced
down
the
left
flank
from
inside
his
own
half,
before
slotting
past
Ederson.
City
regained
control
in
the
73rd
minute.
Referee
Istvan
Kovacs
played
a
brilliant
advantage
after
Oleksandr
Zinchenko
was
felled
by
Toni
Kroos,
enabling
Silva
to
fire
past
a
perplexed
Thibaut
Courtois.
But
Los
Blancos
had
the
final
word
courtesy
of
Benzema’s
Panenka-style
penalty
after
Aymeric
Laporte
handled
in
the
box.
On
April
26,
2016,
Manchester
City
and
Real
Madrid
played
out
a
tepid
0-0
draw
in
the
first
leg
of
a
Champions
League
semi-final
at
the
Etihad
Stadium.
Back
at
the
same
ground,
in
the
same
round
of
the
same
competition
six
years
later,
they
produced
a
spectacle
that
had
the
contrast
cranked
up
to
the
maximum.
It
was
the
joint-highest
scoring
semi-final
in
the
competition’s
history,
and
it
was
a
story
that
twisted
and
turned
from
the
first
minute
until
the
last.
But
the
opening
chapter
reached
its
conclusion
with
City
holding
a
4-
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