The exciting Champions League semi-finals are back, two royal clubs of their respective leagues, Real Madrid and Manchester City, on the one hand, Real Madrid, a La Liga giant with the title of the best club of the 20th century officially issued by FIFA, on the other hand, the Premier League upstart Manchester City, which has risen rapidly since the 10s, two teams with different styles and traditions are about to break out in a big battle at the Etihad Stadium.
A head-on collision between two candidates for this year's Golden Globes
Race conditions
In this game, Manchester City suffered an injury in the back line, Kyle Walker and Cancello were unable to play, Stones had to temporarily divert to the position of right-back, and the Real Madrid side, except for Hazard, who was reimbursed for the season again, the team almost retained a complete lineup, which is definitely good for Real Madrid. Just 1 minute after the start of the game to everyone's imagination, Mahrez on the right side of the breakthrough of the inner cut and then a pick, the heart of de Bruyne inserted in front of Carvajal to complete the header, Courtois faced such a close header can only sigh, considering the relationship between De Bruyne and Courtois, this wave should be called the revenge of wife-snatching!
After scoring 1 goal, Real Madrid had to hand over his skills to let the opponent goalkeeper take the initiative to reduce his wisdom, the 6th minute this move really worked, in the face of Benzema's forced Ederson kick-off directly to the Real Madrid players, fortunately in the end Manchester City fully back to defend the goal is not lost, real Madrid who handed over the skills then suffered a blow, the 10th minute De Bruyne stood out again, his diagonal pass in front of the goal directly found the little Jesus Jesus Jesus buried in the penalty area, Brazil No. 9 faced Alaba to stop the ball and turned around and swung the ball straight through to score! He has scored 5 goals in 2 games in the last 4 days, who will sell him in such a state?
Jesus' turn is really beautiful
Trailing by two goals at half-time, the key moment is still relying on Benzema, in the 33rd minute Manchester City's backfield mistake was broken, Flanders Mendy made a slight adjustment and directly started the ball into the box, Benzema once again appeared in the right position to score the ball, the score became 2-1. Of course, the half-time gap between the two sides in this game cannot be seen from the score, if it were not for the fact that the Manchester City striker was really not strong, they would definitely lead by more than 1 goal at the moment!
Half-time back the two sides began to fight each other, in the 48th minute Mahrez squandered a great chance, Fernandinho became the protagonist, in the 53rd minute Manchester City's goal finally came, 36-year-old Fernandinho overtook mendy on the wing to send a pass to easily assist Foden to complete the goal, and then in the blink of an eye Fernandinho became the opponent's background board! In the 55th minute, the 21-year-old Brazilian genius Vinicius crossed the crotch in a fake move through the crotch and drove straight into the goal to complete the one-knife goal.
In the final moments, the two sides exerted their full solution, first de Bruyne was brought down in front of the penalty area in the 74th minute, and then the referee adhered to the principle of offensive strength and did not blow the game, Manchester City Magician B took advantage of the opponent's loss of concentration to carry the ball and then completed the goal with a world wave, and the score came to 4-2. Benzema stepped up again in the final moments, causing a handball in the penalty area as he battled against opponent Laporta, and then he personally took the penalty to freeze the score at the final 4-3. Such a recent war finally came to an end.
After the game
From the perspective of a neutral fan, this match is undoubtedly the champions league final level, and seeing Manchester City's performance today, I believe that fans understand why Atletico Madrid used a 5-5-0 squad to deal with this difficult opponent! Although it is a disadvantage, but the performance of Benzema on the Real Madrid side today is still super god level, who can think that a 34-year-old player can once again turn the tide for the second leg of the game again? Similar nicknames, similar performances We can't help but think of Ronaldo's performance in the 2003 Champions League at the Manchester United Dream Theatre, where he completed a hat-trick and finally led the team to retreat, and Benzema, who debuted in Lyon and was known as Ronaldo, also surprised us on this night.