Real Madrid players celebrate the third goal against Manchester City

RODRYGO AND BENZEMA, FIGURES

Miracle of Madrid! The whites come back to City in extra time (3-1)

Published:4/05/2022 - 23:36h

Updated:5/05/2022 - 10:31h

Real Madrid returns to the Champions League final and will repeat the 2018 definition against Liverpool. The Whites seemed dedicated, but a brace from Rodrygo in stoppage time sent the game into extra time. Benzema did the rest in extra time

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Real Madrid and Manchester City completed a very different party to the of the past week in the Etihad Stadium, but with a spectacular end and impensado, with the enésima white epic of the season. The turn was much more tactical, with the ones of Pep Guardiola looking for hurt with the high pressure and the occupation of spaces in the first time and a team 'merengue' launched to the attack taking advantage of the speed of Vinicius by the left in the second stretch.

The venues initiated very enchufados the party, presionando the exit 'cityzen' and trying apply numerical superiority in the centre of the field with the presence of Luka Modrić and Federico Valverde behind Vinicius and Karim Benzema. Likewise, the presence of Casemiro gave him to the ones of Carlo Ancelotti greater balance to recover fast and bet to the vertical game, with which Benzema had a very clear of head grieve to the four minutes of game.

Nevertheless, to the French cost him the definition like few times in the season and in the 12' had another clear, but finished badly of right. After the minute 20, the City did with the control of the balloon, creating the clearest opportunities of the first time. Bernardo Silva had the clearest in the 20' with a powerful finish that Thibaut Courtois took out throwing of reflections, with the very firm hands. The Belgian answered again in the 40' cutting across a shot of Phil Foden when the party lucía more trabado that never.

With the 0-0 went to the rest, giving the feeling that the ones of Pep had everything under control. Nevertheless, the Madrid took advantage of a distraction of the English group after the initial kickoff of the second time. Pelotazo For Dani Carvajal, centre crossed of the side and Vinicius, only, finished diverted. The whites repeated the strategy of first time and launched to drown the exit of the City, but the venues did not find solution in the definition.

They arrived the variants and opened the party

Guardiola Moved the bench in the minute 72. Walker, lesionado, left his place to Zinchenko and Gündoğan ingresó by an instrascendente Kevin Of Bruyne. Previously, Ancelotti put to Rodrygo by Toni Kroos and the Madrid yielded spaces in the medullary, which Gündoğan took advantage of to arm a stupendous played with Bernardo Silva. The Portuguese enabled to Riyad Mahrez, the one who defined of first fusilando to Courtouis. 73 minutes. Seventh goal of Mahrez in the tournament, goleador of the English; 0-1 and silence in Santiago Bernabéu.

In spite of the advantage, the venues did not conform and Pep put to Jack Grealish by Gabriel Jesús. The '10' took advantage of the embarrassment of the white saga and had the sentence in the 86', defining with a finish mildly hammered in front of Courtois, but Ferland Mendy saved just on the line. And it came the 90'. And it appeared the magic, the mystic. It go one to know what there is in the Bernabéu, but desató the madness impensada.

Madness in the end, enésima epic of the Madrid

The ones of Ancelotti seemed delivered, without ideas, but appeared Benzema and Rodrygo justified his role of acting stellar. Camavinga, ingresado by Modrić in the 75', sent a pelotazo crusader that went down Benzema in extremis so that the Brazilian fusilara to Ederson. 90 minutes, 1-1 and white resurrection. In the following played, Carvajal devised them to him to throw a centre to the pot. Asensio, the one who replaced to Casemiro, brushed mildly of head and Rodrygo did the rest with another head butt to the angle. 91 minutes, 2-1 and tie to 5 in the global.

The same Rodrygo had the classification before the end, but Ederson baled out to time. With the visitors in shock arrived the lengthen and the unavoidable. Rúben Dias Demolished to Karim in a distraction and the French invoiceed his second penalti of the series in the minute 5 of the first extention. 3-1. The City looked for it to the end, but no longer there was lucidity neither physicist to change the history. Another traced back historical, inexplicable, incredible. The Madrid will play the final of the Champions in front of the Liverpool in Paris. Like this it was written. Like this it had to be.

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