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The two sides combined for seven goals in their meeting at the Etihad last week, with Man City coming away with the slight advantage.

Once again, it was Vinícius who had the chance in front of goal, but the Brazilian missed the target. While City recorded four shots on goal in the first 40 minutes, Real continued to miss the target. The start lacked the frenetic energy and disorder of the first leg with neither side able to capitalize on a serious chance.

Eight days after Manchester City and Real Madrid played what may be the Champions League game of the season, the sequel to their semifinal instant classic ...

The Spanish team will have to beat Manchester City by 1 to send the game to extra time and by 2 to win it before penalties. As long as Modrić can find a passing helix, as long as Benzema is given a coffin’s worth of space inside the box, Madrid has a chance. Last season it finally made the final only to lose to English rivals Chelsea, but before that it fell to the likes of Lyon in 2020, Tottenham in 2019, and a work-in-progress Liverpool that finished 25 points behind Manchester City in the Premier League in 2018. When Liverpool plays poorly—which, granted, has barely happened in 2022—it feels like a party in the aftermath of a noise complaint. Madrid did get Buster Douglas’d at home in the group stages by unheralded Transnistrian club Sheriff Tiraspol in September.) When Manchester City plays poorly, its players look like they’ve realized on Step 30 that they made a mistake on Step 12 of whatever it is they’re assembling. This season, the person charged with prying open the jaws of defeat over and over again has been Benzema. Overshadowed for the better part of a decade at Real Madrid by Cristiano Ronaldo and occasional glimpses of Gareth Bale, the 34-year-old French striker is now the team’s top scorer and most prolific assister, the best player in La Liga during its first post-Messi season. Contrast this to Manchester City, which has been among the very best teams in Europe under Guardiola—it has won three Premier League titles in the past four years, and is currently a point ahead of Liverpool in the race to this year’s finish—but has often disappointed its own high standards in continental competition. Meanwhile, Madrid’s indomitable old guard midfield of Casemiro, Toni Kroos, and Luka Modrić remain as difficult to take the ball from as during the threepeat. Instead, Real Madrid lived up to its own legacy by answering with a swiveling volley from star striker Karim Benzema, and continued to rebut City for the rest of the contest. In 2022, Real Madrid has finished each of its previous two knockout series with fewer expected goals than its opponents. Bernardo Silva made it four for Manchester City with approximately 15 minutes remaining; Benzema chipped home a penalty with eight minutes left, drawing a real “Apollo Creed hanging his head when Rocky gets up in the 14th round” reaction from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Manchester City looked as though it might end the series before the whistle blew for half-time.

Le match aller entre la formation anglaise et l'équipe espagnole avait touché au sublime lors de la victoire des Cityzens (4-3). Qu'en sera-t-il pour cette ...

Bienvenue sur leparisien.fr pour suivre EN DIRECT commenté la demi-finale retour de Ligue des champions entre le Real Madrid et Manchester City. Coup d’envoi à 21h au Stade Santiago Bernabeu ! 20h20. ABSENTS. Quelques joueurs de part et d’autres sont indisponibles pour la rencontre de ce soir. 20h15. STATS : Dans son histoire, le Real Madrid n’est jamais parvenu à se qualifier pour la finale d’une coupe d’Europe après avoir perdu la demi-finale aller. KB9 avait également éliminé quasi à lui seul le PSG en huitièmes de finale. A l’aller, le Français avait marqué deux buts pour revenir dans la partie. L’attaquant de Man City envoie une frappe puissante au premier poteau pour tromper Courtois. Manchester mène 1-0 ! 20e. Parade de Courtois ! De Bruyne se retrouve libre et donne un caviar en profondeur à Bernardo Silva qui plonge sur la droite et tente de scorer au premier poteau. Mais Courtois se mue en mur et dégage en corner. 4e. Enorme occasion pour Benzema ! Le Français s’est retrouvé seul au point de penalty pour reprendre un centre de Carvajal de la tête, mais le ballon part au-dessus de la cage d’Ederson. 23e. Contrôle manqué de la part de De Bruyne qui offre un ballon à Jesus. Le Brésilien enchaîne avec une frappe qui passe à un mètre du poteau droit de Courtois. 40e. La parade de Courtois qui se détend vers le sol pour contrer une frappe de Foden ! 93e. PENALTY POUR MADRID ! Benzema est taclé dans la surface par Dias qui commet la faute sur le Français.

Real Madrid face Manchester City in the highly anticipated second leg of their Champions League semi-final tie, with Pep Guardiola's men having a 4-3 lead ...

Cancelo does well to win a corner for City but Real eventually manage to clear the danger. 90 minutes from kickoff: The first leg in Manchester was hugely entertaining and it is hoped that tonight's clash will also be of a very high standard. 26 mins: Toni Kroos tries his luck from a free-kick, with his effort deflecting off Mahrez as Real look to up the ante. GOAL - Real Madrid 0-1 Manchester City (Mahrez) Riyad Mahrez scores a superb goal to put City ahead on the night and they now lead 5-3 on aggregate. 1 hour from kickoff: Although City have a one-goal lead to predict, it is difficult to imagine Pep Guardiola setting his team up with an entirely defensive mindset. Pep Guardiola's side have looked assured in possession and have managed to cope well with the threat of Real so far but can they do the same in the second half? Riyad Mahrez is also involved from the outset, with Raheem Sterling named among the substitutes. The Real Madrid midfielder now requires treatment but is okay to continue. Full time in normal time: Real Madrid 2-1 Manchester City (5-5 on aggregate): Extra-time will now follow after an unbelievable comeback from Real. City seemed set for the final following Mahrez's goal but substitute Rodrygo scored two goals in as many minutes for Real late on. Will City be able to make it an all-English final again, with Liverpool's place in Paris already secured? 55 mins: Benzema looks to play in Vinicius Junior, but Laporte makes a vital interception. The first chance of extra-time falls to Benzema, whose shot is saved.

Only 90 minutes remain to decide who between Real Madrid and Manchester City for play Liverpool for dis year Champions League final.

43 mins - Benzema tink say im don beat di offside trap as im race onto Modric through pass. 33 mins - Casemiro foul Phil Foden just near di centre circle. 4 mins - Benzema head Carvajal cross over di bar. 87 mins - Grealish run down Real goal come shoot shot wey Mendy clear off di line. Di City player dey alright to kontinu. Di referee wave play on. 82 mins - Benzema dribble Laporte come shoot on goal, Ederson save am. Im shot dey blocked but Ederson wey rush comot to catch am fail to do so, na Laporte boot di ball clear. 40 mins - Phil Foden shot lead to good save from Courtois wey dive low to punch di shot clear. 2 mins - From di kickoff Real Madrid win freekick close to Man City penalty area. 85 mins - Fernandinho don enter di match, im replace di goalscorer Mahrez. 91 mins - Man City don restart play from di centre circle.

Vinicius Junior a loupé une énorme occasion en début de seconde période, symbolisant les grosses difficultés du Real Madrid...

Vinicius Junior a loupé une énorme occasion en début de seconde période, symbolisant les grosses difficultés du Real Madrid... Un loupé qui va de pair avec une statistique accablante en première période. Les Madrilènes n'ont pas réussi à trouver une fois le cadre, une rareté à domicile en Ligue des champions Vinicius Junior a loupé une énorme occasion en début de seconde période, symbolisant les grosses difficultés du Real Madrid... Vinicius Junior a loupé une énorme occasion en début de seconde période, symbolisant les grosses difficultés du Real Madrid...

Real Madrid have a proud history of European comebacks. Manchester City must deal with this heady cocktail of myth and reality, in the Champions League ...

In Champions League semi-finals, Madrid have never won on the previous five occasions they have sustained a first-leg deficit. Ninety minutes at the Bernabeu was turning into a very long time for Carlo Ancelotti’s men as the Premier League side completely dominated and established a 3-0 lead. In the 1985/86 round of 16, Borussia Monchengladbach walloped Los Blancos 5-1 but lost 4-0 at the Bernabeu to bow out on away goals. After Juanito put Inter on notice, Madrid promptly won 3-0 and lifted the trophy in the final. In the home leg of the 2013/14 quarter-final against Wolfsburg, Cristiano Ronaldo rattled home a hat-trick, and a new era of Madrid being driven by a heady combination of self-belief, skill and apparent destiny began. They did it again the following year, losing 3-1 in Italy before beating Inter 5-1 after extra-time.

As it had done in the round of 16 and quarterfinal round, Real Madrid once again came back with two goals in two minutes courtesy of Rodrygo to level the tie ...

There’s a chance this thing goes to a shootout as well, but Real Madrid has once again snatched a game from the jaws of defeat. This is truly starting to get insane in terms of comebacks for Real Madrid. However, the home team had other ideas.

Karim Benzema a marqué le but qui donnait l'avance au Real Madrid contre Manchester City. Photo : Getty Images / AFP/JAVIER SORIANO.

Moins flamboyant, son tir de pénalité dans le coin inférieur à la gauche d’Ederson donnait l’avance au Real Madrid pour la première fois de la série, 185 minutes plus tard. Et les hôtes auraient difficilement pu en rater une plus nette que celle survenue dans les secondes qui ont suivi le retour de la pause. Quelque 80 secondes plus tard, un centre de Carvajal a trouvé la tête de Rodrygo, déjà double buteur. Les visiteurs n’étaient cependant pas spectateurs, comme l’indiquait ce plongeon de Thibaut Courtois pour stopper une frappe de Phil Foden quelques secondes avant la percée de Benzema à l’autre bout du stade. Après sa délicieuse panenka dans le match aller, Benzema a eu l’occasion d’en rajouter dans les premières minutes de la prolongation, quand il a subi une faute de Ruben Dias dans la surface. Condamnés à marquer après la défaite de 4-3 à Manchester, les champions d'Espagne ont rapidement créé des demi-occasions pour Karim Benzema, qui a envoyé une difficile reprise de la tête vers les tribunes avant de dévisser un centre de Fede Valverde.

Manchester City were heading to the Champions League final after Riyad Mahrez's strike but two late goals from Rodrygo then Karim Benzema's extra-time ...

It is all a part of the show, all a part of what City had to tame. It was Bernardo Silva who played the final pass, teasing it into the path of the onrushing Mahrez, who had been peripheral up until that point. Foden drew a diving save out of Courtois with a header at the end of the first period of extra time but the broad answer was no. It was a tired challenge from Rúben Dias on Karim Benzema, who had nipped in front of the City defender and on to a low Rodrygo cross – an obvious penalty. Benzema had kept Real in the tie at the end of the first-leg with an ice-in-the-veins panenka. It was the way that the footballing gods, with whom Real appear to have a deal with options, tormented them.

Real Madrid battled back from the brink of elimination to overcome Manchester City and book its place in the Champions League final.

City knew the onus was on Real to try and level the tie and Pep Guardiola's side was content with allowing its opponent more possession that it did a week ago. Walker was patched up and rushed back in time for the second leg, as City knew he was its best chance at combating Vinicus' blistering pace. This current Real team may not be at the level of previous iterations, but heading to the Bernabeu with just a one-goal advantage remains a daunting task. Just a few minutes later, Benzema brought the crowd inside the Bernabeu to its feet for the first time. It's Nacho's use of the word "magic" that feels most accurate on Champions League nights. "A por la 14," read the writing on the back of Real's celebratory shirts. For the third knockout tie in a row, Real looked down and out. But Guardiola's side were only offered a moment's respite before the bombardment restarted and it took just three minutes of extra tie for Real to take the lead in this tie for the first time. For three successive rounds, Carlo Ancelotti's side has been on the verge of elimination. You get goosebumps thinking about experiencing nights like that because they're historic, they're magic." From a side that had looked so down and out literally seconds ago that much of the stadium had started to empty, Real was now looking the most likely to win this tie. The Bernabeu is special on nights like that ... you think about it and get goosebumps.

Immortel Real Madrid ! Grâce à l'inévitable Karim Benzema, le « Roi d'Europe » a signé une nouvelle remontée extraordinaire mercredi dans son antre de ...

Deux buts signés Rodrygo qui ont réveillé le public madrilène, qui a repris son perpétuel refrain de plus belle : « Si se puede! Auparavant, les Merengues avaient échoué à huit reprises. Le Real Madrid rejoint Liverpool après une remontée spectaculaireLigue des champions mercredi, 4 mai 2022.

All but beaten in its Champions League semifinal, Madrid scored once, then twice, then a third time to snatch a victory and add to its legend.

It is something that happens, something that happens to Real Madrid, and to whoever has the misfortune to be standing in its way. There can be no noise, no hope, no spark and no time, and yet Real Madrid can still conjure it from the air, from the sky, from something deep within. It did not have any great desire to exist in a dimension in which Manchester City was in the Champions League final and it was not. It had only found a little composure after Riyad Mahrez had scored, when the prospect of a place in the final against Liverpool at the end of May was so tantalizingly close. It is hard to tell whether it is something about the Bernabéu that does it, or whether it is the effect of feeling like you are living in a self-fulfilling prophecy, but this place has an unrivaled ability to unsettle even the greatest players, the smoothest teams. Manchester City was now living in Real Madrid’s world, and the ending in Real Madrid’s world is always the same. In the space of five minutes, with a break and a breather in between, Manchester City’s understanding of how things worked had been shattered. It happened to P.S.G., too, when Gianluigi Donnarumma stumbled on the ball and Neymar and Lionel Messi disappeared from view. Here, though, it was something else, something more akin to a Big Bang. Real Madrid did not particularly like the turn the universe was taking. This time, he raced off, sprinting to the edge of the field, careering as close to the stands as he could. With 89 minutes and 30 seconds played, Rodrygo reacted quickest to Karim Benzema’s knockdown and stabbed a shot past Éderson. He gobbled the ball from the back of the net, and sprinted straight back to the halfway line. But there comes a point when reality has to intrude, when the chaos has to give way to order.

Au terme d'une double confrontation spectaculaire, le Real Madrid s'est adjugé le dernier billet pour la finale de la Ligue des champions, ...

Sur un centre de Joao Cancelo, côté droit, Phil Foden place une tête qui oblige Thibaud Courtois à réaliser une parade décisive sur sa droite. En menant 3 buts à 1, c'est bien le Real qui est qualifié à cet instant du match! Au stade de France, le 28 mai, ils disputeront, contre Liverpool, leur 17e finale de C1. Légendaire. Alors que City pensait se diriger tranquillement vers la finale, Rodrygo est venu redonner espoir au Real Madrid en inscrivant un but capital à la 90e. Dos au mur et poussés les Madrilènes ne parviennent à revenir dans le match. Le public du Santiago-Bernabéu s'est remis à y croire, surtout après un nouveau but de Rodrygo deux minutes plus tard, en reprenant de la tête un centre de Dani Carvajal !

Real Madrid produced yet another magical Champions League night at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Wednesday, rallying late with two goals in two minutes ...

It was his 10th goal in the knockout stage alone, tying Cristiano Ronaldo's record in a single season. "We had already eliminated some top teams that spent a lot of money to try to win a Champions, but today it was more impressive, happening in the final minutes." "I cannot say we are used to living this kind of life, but what happened tonight happened against Chelsea and also against Paris," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. Benzema had scored hat tricks when Madrid rallied against both PSG and Chelsea. Madrid came back against PSG after losing the first leg in Paris and conceding early in the second leg at the Bernabeu. Against Chelsea, Madrid won the first match 3-1 but was down 3-0 in the second leg before rallying in extra time, when Benzema again scored the deciding goal. The "Si se puede! BENZEMA GIVES REAL MADRID THE LEAD IN THE TIE 🔥

WHAT A TURNAROUND 😳 pic.twitter.com/HWJtmkt1N9— @DAZN_CA

The Spaniard, in his sixth season with the club, suffered yet another dose of European disaster as City was stunned by a late Real Madrid comeback in the decisive second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu.

It's normal, it's the semifinal, the players they feel the pressure, they want to do it. "It's not like you say in the last 10 minutes they attack and attack and you suffer. They put a lot of players in the box and they score two goals." We found our tempo, the players were comfortable on the pitch. "We were close but football is unpredictable," Guardiola said to BT Sport after the loss. "They scored goals in the last minutes.

Manchester City, qui a pris deux buts d'avance à la 73e minute, quitte la compétition après la prolongation et le dixième but en cinq matches de Karim ...

Le match était presque terminé et nous avons réussi à trouver la dernière énergie que nous avions. Nous n'avons pas joué de notre mieux mais il est normal dans une demi-finale que les joueurs ressentent la pression. C'était son dixième but sur ses cinq derniers matches de Champions League, le 86e de sa carrière. Seuls Ronaldo et Messi devancent désormais l'ancien Lyonnais. Le stade s'agaçait. Des parades de grande classe pour laisser le Real Madrid dans la course à la qualification Encore à nouveau mené à quelques minutes de la fin, le Real a encore sonné son adversaire.