Real Madrid-Manchester City (1-1): The Etihad will pass sentence – Spain’s News

It will be in the field of Manchester City where a tremendous tie is decided, very even in the first game, with Vinicius as a scorer and totally unbalancing and Haaland losing all the battles against Alaba and Rüdiger, a wall, next to Courtois, he could only knock down a long shot from De Bruyne. The tie leaves the return as if it were a single game and with something else: without a favorite. Because before the Bernabéu match, Guardiola’s team, the leader of the Premier, the greasy machine, the laboratory, was pointed out as superior to the irregular and well-known Real Madrid. The Bernabéu, however, left an equal score and two teams that look face to face to measure themselves next Wednesday.

It was what was promised, the anticipated final: exciting, with a part for each team and each one playing their weapons. Manchester City came out as expected, to have the ball and throw Madrid back, even if it was hitting Haaland with balls. That is no longer ugly or illegal or morally reprehensible. That was how the game began: a ball from the goalkeeper, a fight, which Haaland lost with Alaba and from there, Madrid could barely get out in the first half hour. He pulled back further than usual because he didn’t want to leave even a gap. If you defend well, you have a goalless tie, Ancelotti had said the day before. And that’s what his team did. City prowled, approached, shot consecutively and made Courtois work, but he did not finish arriving clearly and he gave the impression that he even got bored of his dominance, of having the ball abusively and barely getting any performance out of it. .

It was very difficult for Madrid to leave, as soon as they tried, they looked for Vinicius, at first without much success, but feeling good as the minutes went by. It is an expert team, which knows that many things happen in these matches, that you have to wait, that everything comes. Thus, City accused not having holes and Madrid began to find them. Benzema went down to play a bit and Valverde to find paths with his speed. City played with three behind and with Stones in the center, but helping their defense. Until he couldn’t help, until camavinga He lost his hair, saw a prairie and began to run. He is a midfielder, but as a left back he gives Ancelotti so many things that he cannot do without him. He is a very fast defender and a midfielder with a lot of experience.. His career ended in a pass to Vinicius, the one that he did not know how to finish off, that he had no strength, that it was a meme, a joke: each game erases traces of what he was not to become an immense player.

The goal suddenly changed what was already changing. Madrid settled on the field as they usually do in the Champions League. The usual midfield began to play, Carvajal to prevail, to reach everything and Rodrygo up front to dribble and Vini to his own.

The break did not change the pace of the game then. Madrid was already playing in the rival field and City had lost momentum. Haaland spent the game without saying “mú”, far from the scorer version of him, dwarfed by the two white center backs. He was able to decide Madrid the tie, he had it more at hand than ever, although since he passed City in the first half, he did not enjoy very clear chances either. What he did do was deny those who did not believe, who, once again, gave him up for dead before starting.

It happened that when they were at their best, City scored in a play in which the madridistas thought the ball had gone down the wing. He did not do it and the white team was not correct in their decisions when taking out the ball. He ended up in De Bruyne and his whiplash was unstoppable.

City did not want more and Madrid could not take it anymore, tired after so many games and emotions. In Manchester, everything open.