Manchester City put Real Madrid to the sword with a 4-0 UCL semi-final win that could have been even worse for the visitors. All hail the new overlords. twoht
that? The sound of a seal being broken? The end of an era? The start of another? Well, who knows? What does feel undeniable is that Manchester City’s 4-0 win against Real Madrid felt like a shift of not-insignificant proportions. The Kings of European football were left denuded, looking old, tired and broadly out of ideas, while Manchester City continue to swashbuckle their way towards an increasingly plausible-looking treble.
You see, a lot was said about Real Madrid’s run to the Champions League in 2022, the zombie-like way they just kept getting back up and continuing their inexorable march towards Paris, no matter how many times they got shot. But that was last year, and this is this year, and while it is true to say that they came from two down to beat Liverpool in their round of sixteen first leg match, Liverpool couldn’t have been more obliging hosts and Chelsea were, well, you know.
But on this occasion, the ball hit the bar, and within four minutes your-one-stop-goal-shop Bernardo Silva had doubled City’s lead. Manchester City were sailing off into the distance, and there didn’t seem to be very much that Real Madrid could do to stop them.7) Real Madrid improved in the second half, but there was still something lethargic about their performance. They may have found a route back into the game had Ederson not made an excellent save from David Alaba’s free-kick six minutes in.
9) And another theme of the evening, it turned out, was that if Courtois did make an outstanding save from Haaland, the ball would be in the back of his net as a result of somebody else’s actions within a few minutes. This time it was three minutes from the goalkeeper’s save to a Manchester City goal, and this time the last touch came from Eder Militao after Manuel Akanji had flicked on a free-kick from Kevin De Bruyne.
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