The first leg of the three favourites to win the Champions League: Real Madrid Manchester City won with an injury, and Bayern lost a historic loss
Spring Festival...... Valentine’s Day...... The first leg of the 2023/24 Champions League 1/8 finals began.
On this festive and romantic day, it happens to be the reigning champions of the Champions League and the former defending champions of the Champions League, Manchester City and Real Madrid. According to the Champions League schedule, Manchester City and Real Madrid are the first in each group, and the 1/8 finals are all away and then home, and the first leg is away.
Real Madrid's opponent is RB Leipzig, and the suspense of promotion is not big, with Dias's world wave, Real Madrid won with a score of 1-0 and took the lead. However, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti had a sad face and couldn't be happy.
Dias, who scored the winning goal, replaced Bellingham, who was absent due to injury, and saw that the joy of "missing the east corner, reaping the mulberry" was about to become a reality, but Dias was injured at the end of the game.
As a result, Real Madrid's squad is old and old, and Ancelotti is really a head and two big.
As the defending champions, Manchester City's opponent in the 1/8 finals is recognized as a big gift package - Danish Super League giants Copenhagen. Although the opponent is weak, the Nordic team has always played strongly, coupled with the cold weather, who to change, I have to chuckle in my heart.
The result was no surprise, with De Bruyne's two passes and one shot, Manchester City walked away from the icy Copenhagen and had already stepped into the quarter-finals with one foot. But compared to the result, the process of the game also made manager Pep Guardiola unhappy.
After a rare winter break, Manchester City finally welcomed back the strongest squad at a crucial stage of the season, and they are also sitting on top of the Premier League after five consecutive wins. On this away trip, Manchester City will be hoping to win with minimal attrition.
After Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring comfortably, Copenhagen could only stop City's flowing attack with ferocious defence and even brutal fouls. Grealish was frequently kicked to the ground, playing only 20 minutes before going off with an injury, and was diagnosed with a groin injury after the game, and had to miss several games.
Foden, Bernardo, Haaland...... City's attacking group was swept apart by the brutal onslaught of the Copenhagen defence, and Ederson handed away his clean sheet bonus in a panic, leaving Guardiola confused on the sidelines.
Just before half-time, De Bruyne's brilliant cross and Bernardo's brilliant cushion shot gave City the lead again. However, in the 79th minute, Bernardo, who had been brought down several times by the Copenhagen defenders like a tree throughout the game, finally couldn't support it - the socks were shoveled out of a big hole and replaced by Nunez.
Bernardo's injuries will have to go through key tests before they can be determined, but hopefully nothing will be a big deal. In stoppage time, Foden converted De Bruyne's cross into the game-winning goal.
In the whole game, Manchester City had 27 shots on goal and 15 shots on target, Copenhagen only had 4 shots on goal, but the number of fouls, Copenhagen had 13 times, although there was no red card, but the ferocity of the foot was visible to the naked eye, in the words of the fans - Manchester City won the game, and it was not easy to walk off the field alive.
Compared with Real Madrid, which is full of injuries, Manchester City's situation is naturally slightly better, but the competition in the Premier League is far from comparable to La Liga, and Manchester City's difficulties are also not small.
After Manchester City and Real Madrid came on, Bayern Munich, another favourite, also completed the first leg of the match - a 1-0 defeat at Lazio, the Bundesliga team lost away to a Serie A side for the first time in 13 years. After losing to the knockout round, Tuchel's days should come to an end......