By the time Mahrez broke the deadlock in the 73rd minute, the winning balance had been heavily tilted in Manchester City's favour. But Rodrigo's miraculous second-in-command and Benzema's penalty shootout in overtime allowed Real Madrid to win the nine-life Champions League semi-final, which was their three consecutive rounds of knockouts to complete a stunning reversal, and after losing Zidane, metaphysics is still everywhere in the Galaxy. Even a gua shuai who did not live a whole life had to bow his head in the face of this kind of metaphysics.
In this game, Manchester City welcomed back the winged canceló and Kyle Walker, especially the latter's speed advantage, so that Vinicius, who ravaged the Manchester City backline in the last game, was helpless. The left side of The Combinationo and Foden also showed excellent offensive ability. However, Walker, who had been recovering from a long injury, also exhausted his only physical strength in the chase with Vinicius, and could not insist on being replaced by Zinchenko in the 72nd minute, and Guardiola also showed courage to replace the underperforming De Bruyne with Gundogan.
The seemingly flexible substitution still worked, and a minute later, Bernardo Silva assisted Mahrez to break the deadlock. In the 78th minute, Glalis also came in to replace The 9th Jesus. The idea was equally impeccable, as At this point Cancelo had moved to the right to face vinicius' onslaught, and replacing Glalis was meant to strengthen the left side of the attack. And Glalis also tested the Real Madrid backline with a small angle shot after a strong kick, if it were not for Mendy's goal line rescue, the game would have been no suspense.
In the 85th minute, Fernandinho replaced Mahrez and in the 99th minute Sterling replaced Rodri with two moves, one is to strengthen the defense, the other is to strengthen the attack, there is no problem. It's just that Guardiola missed one thing, and that is the Portuguese centre-back Rubendiás. In this game, the performance of the core of Manchester City's defense is really a bit flattering. Putting down Benzema in extra time was just the tip of the iceberg for his sluggish performance in the game. Rodrigo's two goals, Ruben Dias both acted as a backdrop board. This performance makes Guardiola also powerless to return to heaven.
With Stones injured, Guardiola had only two centre-backs left, Ruben Díaz and Laporte, so even if Díaz performed in a downturn, he had no one to change. Beyond that, Guardiola has done everything he can. City scored 10 of the 15 shots on goal, scored 1 goal, was cleared by the goal line once, and the remaining 8 were deflected by Courtois. Even in extra time, the trailing Manchester City had a good chance of equalizing, but Foden's inevitable header was saved by Courtois, and Fernandinho, who was wrapped up at the back post, was also a little bit worse. When the game came to play, Guardiola could only lament the creation of people, as he said after the game: "Football is an unpredictable sport, that's it, you have to accept." ”
However, Guardiola really did not lose to metaphysics, but the spirit of Real Madrid never giving up. In the case of 0-1 behind, Ancelotti replaced Modric and Casemiro, the two absolute main players in the midfield, posing an unsuccessful and successful fighting posture, and it was Rodrigo who came off the bench to make Real Madrid desperate, and it was Asensio who assisted him to score the second goal.
Fighting for every inch of land and never giving up, real Madrid, which is not the strongest and facing reconstruction, has exploded into an amazing combat effectiveness. Losing to such an awe-inspiring Real Madrid, Guardiola is not wronged. And he also has a chance, next season Haaland arrives, Guardiola will open his third new stage of coaching Manchester City, when a more powerful Manchester City will appear in front of everyone.