Man City allow Real Madrid to join Champions League classic with seven goals Football News – Times of India

Manchester: Manchester City have a slim lead to defend in their second leg Champions League against the semifinals real madrid After winning a thrilling first leg 4-3 at the Etihad on Tuesday.
The English champions may regret not hitting the 13-time winners after taking a two-goal lead three times.
As it happened: Man City vs Real Madrid
kevin de bruneGabriel Jesus, Phil Foden And Bernardo Silva was the target of Pep Guardiola’s men, who should have scored more runs.
but Karim BenzemaVinicius Jr.’s double and brilliant individual effort gave Madrid hope of another famous Champions League fightback on May 4 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Guardiola regretted letting Liverpool “survive” in the Premier League title race after a 2-2 draw at the Etihad nine days ago and will have similar regrets after a blistering start that saw City 4-0 within half an hour. Could see it going up.

Madrid were playing City in their 30th semi-final, but the English giants began their tag as pre-tie favourites.
Only 92 seconds had elapsed before Madrid’s rearguard was overtaken by Riyad Mahrez’s fast foot and a perfect cross to De Bruyne and overtook Thibaut Courtois.
Guardiola has often been criticized for considering his team’s selection at the professional end of the Champions League.
But his decision to break from the mold of the previous two seasons and play Jesus as a central striker was inspired as the Brazil ragged the Real defence.

Jesus made it 2-0 just 10 minutes after David Alaba’s failure to tackle De Bruyne’s cross.
The Spanish champions-elect were without Casemiro and his absence was shown as City counter-attacked at will through midfield.
Guardiola was furious with Mahrez when he selfishly got into the side-netting, with Foden waiting for a cross for a tap.
Moments later it was Foden who was guilty of wasting a brilliant opportunity when he widened another pinpoint De Bruyne with a through ball.
Benzema pulled Madrid back from the dead in the last two rounds to see Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea rise again before half-time to defend his side.
The Frenchman overtook the post with a cross from Ferland Mendy in his 40th goal of the season.
Nevertheless, Madrid’s good job of stabilizing the ship at the end of the first half was undone by another slow start after the break.
Mahrez hit the post when he blocked Foden’s follow-up on the line before Dani Carvajal went head-to-head with Courtois.
Fernandinho was forced to deputize at right-back after replacing injured John Stones in the first half.
And the City captain had a major role in scoring two goals in two minutes.
First, he picked Foden to restore City’s two-goal lead.
But the 36-year-old showed his age as Vinicius cleared his Brazilian compatriot from the halfway point before overtaking Ederson.
City continued to create opportunities for Carlo Ancelotti at an alarming rate, but something special happened when he finished fourth.
Oleksandr Zinchenko was fouled at the edge of the field, but Romanian referee István Kovacs took advantage and Silva entered the top corner.
Again City failed to bed the tie as Mahrez was inches away from finding the corner away from the narrowest of anglers.
But a final turn came eight minutes later when Aymeric Laporte took over inside the field.
Benzema was the coolest man in the stadium as he dropped a spot-kick in the middle to leave the tie at knife-edge and headed back to the Spanish capital.