In the early morning of April 14, Beijing time, the second leg of the 2021-22 Champions League Quarterfinals continued, and there were 2 more matches today. After a lot of fighting, Manchester City drew 0-0 with Atletico Madrid, and Manchester City advanced on aggregate; Liverpool drew 3-3 at home to Benfica, and Liverpool advanced 5:3 on aggregate.
Manchester City defeated Atletico with De Bruyne's goal in the first leg, and today Atletico returned home to pull Manchester City into a hand-to-hand fight, using the way they are good at to attack Manchester City to seek a turnaround. Felipe was very fierce against Foden at the beginning, hitting Foden hard in the 12th minute of the header scramble, referee Hibbert blew a bit of weakness, this did not give cards, which also made the game completely a hand-to-hand combat. In the 24th minute, De Bruyne took the ball in midfield, Felipe came up with another vicious foul behind his back, and Hibbert presented him with a yellow card this time. In the 29th minute, Manchester City's right side tore through the Atletico defense, Rodri was exquisitely straight, Walker entered the right side of the penalty area to reverse the triangle back to the middle of the road, Atletico's front point three people missed, Foden did not expect happiness to come so suddenly, the ball stopped big, Foden reacted quickly to the right side, Gundogan's close left foot push, BOOM's ball was blocked by the goalpost, Atletico escaped a disaster, and then the men city's multiple supplementary shots in front of the goal were blocked.
Shortly after the start of the Yibian rematch, Atletico had a chance to counterattack, but Lodi's ball was passed wide, and Felix was half a beat slower in front of the goal and failed to hit the ball. The two sides continued to play dull after that, with Atletico corner kick opportunities in the 87th minute, Ederson making a mistake and Savage's close-range shots were blocked and the last chance was missed. Felipe then maliciously kicked Down Foden after the ball was out of bounds, and Hibbert sent Felipe a second yellow card in a big outburst. After that, the 10-man Atletico Were unable to break the goal, and finally Manchester City drew 0-0 with Atletico Madrid, and the aggregate score was 1:0 to advance.
Manchester City, Atletico Madrid fiercely fought, on the other side Liverpool and Benfica played completely without the tension of the Champions League quarter-finals, fierce, the two sides played very comfortably. In the 20th minute, Liverpool's corner kick on the left side was sent to the middle of the penalty area by Zimikas, and Cornat's header was successful, and Liverpool opened the scoring 1:0. In the 32nd minute, Milner made a mistake to pass to Ramos, who single-handedly pushed the ball and Benfica equalized 1-1. In the 55th minute, Keita's exquisite oblique block on the right side of the front, goalkeeper Flahodymos made a mistake, Verhentong hastily released to the left, Jota broke the ball and swept to the right, Firmino inserted the goal and pushed the empty goal, Liverpool took a 2-1 lead again. Just nine minutes later, Liverpool won a free kick from a 45-degree angle on the left side of the field, Zimikas took the penalty and Firmino inserted a volley to win the second time, giving Liverpool a 3-1 lead.
In the 73rd minute, Benfica counter-attacked, Grimaldo went straight, Yaremchuk inserted a one-handed knife past Alisson to push the empty goal, and Benfica pulled a goal back 2-3. In the 81st minute, Weigel crossed the top of the midfield and Mario inserted the ball to stop, but Núñez followed up in time to push a one-handed push into the far corner, and Benfica equalized 3-3. The two sides were unable to rewrite the score, and in the final goal battle, Liverpool drew at home to Benfica and advanced to the round of 4 with an aggregate score of 5:3. In this way, this season's Champions League top 4 all produced, La Liga, the Premier League is equally divided, the showdown is also just La Liga, the Premier League two strong catch and kill, Liverpool vs. Villarreal, Manchester City vs. Real Madrid, from the post-match big data prediction, Manchester City and Liverpool have a high probability of killing, but Real Madrid is 8 times in the past 10 years to reach the top 4, the king of the Champions League is not Manchester City can pass casually.
In terms of the top scorer list, Bayern was eliminated by Huang Qian, and Levan is still leading by a one-goal advantage, but Real Madrid has reached the semi-finals, and Benzema still has a chance to catch up, or even overtake. Salah failed to score on the bench today, he is still four goals behind Benzema and Roma Levan 12 goals, and Salah can easily catch up. In addition, Núñez scored an equalizer today, and he also surpassed Messi, catching up with Ronaldo, Sane, Mbappe and others, just 6 goals into the top ten.