Few times a team can feel happy by a defeat, but in the case of the Real Madrid in the gone of semifinals of Champions in front of the Manchester City, the joy is absolutely comprehensible. The 4-3 in favour of the 'citizens' leaves the eliminatory open for his resolution in Santiago Bernabéu, where the 'merengues' expect to live a new night 'epic' beside his fans to trace back the deficit suffered in the Etihad Stadium.
Without Casemiro and with Ferland Mendy and David Praises between cottons, Carlo Ancelotti bet by his classical diagram 4-3-3 in front of the ones of Pep Guardiola to try take advantage of the spaces of the rival every time that it recovered the balloon. At the end, the plan of the Italian did not go out so bad, but this was thanks to the fault of puntería of the City. The venues opened the marker in the minute 2 by means of Kevin Of Bruyne and to the 11' already won 2-0 thanks to another so much of Gabriel Jesús. Everything aimed to a goleada historical, of not being by the bad puntería local.
Ancelotti Bet by Rodrygo, but the Brazilian had a night for the forget. By the contrary, the City did what wanted in front of a centre of the field split without Casemiro in which Fede Valverde and Luka Modrić lucían powerless treating to prevent the fleeting transitions, to two touch, of the venues. The bad moment of Toni Kroos remain of self-evident again and, in defence, Ferland Mendy seemed to walk the field without referenciar to anybody, while Éder Militao was used to to advance of absurd form looking for give him exit to the team, leaving exposed to Praise and Dani Carvajal.
During all the first part, Bernardo Silva and Of Bruyne did estragos of three chambers of field from now on and found with ease to Phil Foden, Riyad Mahrez and Gabriel Jesús in front of the lagoons of the defence visitor, but did not attain to reflect the abysmal difference of arrivals and game in the result. Mahrez And foden failed two very clear before the half hour and Karim Benzema devised them to him to discount in the 33'. Although Foden did the 3-1 partial in the 53', the leading youngster English had a big night elaborating played, but was errático in the ending.
The ones of Pep tried it to the end
To each goal of the City, the Madrid answered with his usual hit. In the 55', Vinicius took advantage of a grave error of Fernandinho to put the 3-2 and Benzema annotated in the 82' the 4-3 final after converting a penalti by a childish hand of Laporte in the area. Bernardo Silva, one of the best of the ones of Pep Guardiola beside Of Bruyne and Gabriel Jesús, had marked the 4-2 partial with a golazo eight minutes before the penalti of Laporte.
Rúben Dias Had two very clear options on the end, but there was not way. The advantage was minimum, in spite of finishing 16 times (only six to door). However, further of the command 'citizen', also is necessary to recognise the defensive fragility of the venues. In each arrival, gave the feeling that Benzema and Vinicius could hurt and, no in vain, the whites finished 11 times, five of them between the three sticks defended by Ederson.
The Madrid trusts the traced back
"A defeat never is good, have illusion in this Champions, but the important is that we never go down the arms. We have to go to the Bernabéu, need to the fans as never and go to do a magic thing that it is to win", said Karim after the party. In this sense, the whites trust to give turn to the eliminatory home, but will have to win by two goals of advantage if they want to do it. Thus, they will have to emulate the achieved in front of Paris Saint-Germain.
For the ones of Pep, remained the bitter feeling to waste so many opportunities ofgoal , but the good news is that this season no longer applies the rule of the 'goal visitor'. Of the contrary, a 1-0 would suffice to the ones of Carlo Ancelotti to advance to the final. The eliminatory is opened and anything can happen, but is clear that any of the two clubs can give the luxury to follow committing so many defensive errors.