Manchester City turned it over the end and it was better for rematch at home

There is no deeper love story in football than Real Madrid with the Champions League. And that relationship was evidenced again this Tuesday when the set of Carlo Ancelotti 3-2 was imposed, after losing twice, in a great game Manchester City in England in the first leg to access the round of 16.

The series will be defined on Wednesday 19 at the Bernabéu, although the Spaniards, who go for the 16th Cup, seem to have one foot in the next round.

In the giant matches it is where the figure of Pep Guardiola appears with Fulgor, possibly the best coach in history. It is known that Manchester City is going through the worst season since Catalan assumed in the English team, in February 2016. Thus, he arrived with more doubts than certainty to the clash against Colossus Real Madrid.

He had to get out of the PEP libretto and, when it seems that everything in football is invented, finds some twist. What tactical movement thought this time? He put together a line of 5 defenders, but distributed in an unconventional way. When the City defended, John Stones was the central steering wheel ahead of Akanji, Days, Aké and Gvardiol.

The unthinkable happened on exit or when the premises had possession: Akanji and Gvardiol closed to the sides of Stones to assemble a trident and behind them the defenders days and Aké. There, in the middle of the centrals, Vinicius and Mbappé, the sprinters of Madrid were involved.

Guardiola is a football student and pays special attention to the defensive part. Did the Mbappé already vinicius cage attempt out? Did the tactic cause Real Madrid not to generate danger with the backlash? In parts yes and partly not.

Because Manchester City showed a very improved face in ball outings, but Carlo Ancelotti, the wisest of the world’s technicians, made many merits to turn into the initial stage in which he was lost 0-1. Y las más claras la tuvo con corridas al espacio del brasileño y el francés. Vinicius, incluso, estrelló un remate lejano en el travesaño.

A change modified everything for the complement: Akanji was injured and entered the youth Rico Lewis, who could never stop Vinicius, who had a special duel because the English fans loaded him for having lost in the golden ball in the hands of the Spanish Rodri, injured y que estuvo en la tribuna. Real Madrid siguió siendo punzante y agresivo, pero Manchester ya no pudo realizar transiciones de defensa a ataque. Se desmoronó el City y apareció la mística de la Casa Blanca. Mbappé, at 16 minutes, perhaps put the most unusual goal of his young career: he hit him with the right hip and dislodged to Ederson, who had previously stopped a couple. El 1-1 era merecido.

El gol de Haaland de penal (infantil falta de Ceballos a Foden) pareció reavivar al local. Pero el Madrid, que nunca muere hasta el final, continuó siendo mejor. And two false outputs of the locals allowed the meringues goals: Brahim Díaz matched in the absence of five and in the final minute Bellingham put the final 3-2 after a Vinicius run.

It was a great game played in England. And it can be repeated next week in Spain.

The distance that separates Brest and al Paris Saint-Germain It was embodied in this afternoon’s duel, although they ended with the same points in the league phase. The hopes of the Breton set to be applied for the round of 16 of the Champions League succumbed to the gale Dembeléwhich caused a penalty and converted two goals that left the Parisians with one foot in the next phase thanks to a forceful 3-0, which must ratify next week in the Park of the Princes.

Dembélé was the great figure: it caused the prison that allowed Vitinha to open the score in the 21st minute, on the edge of the break he scored his own goal in an individual play that sank the hope of the Brest and signed the third in the complement. Totaliza now 23 goals in his best year -Siete of which went to Brest-, six in the Champions League.

If winning in Brittany – in Guingamp, since its stadium does not give European size – it was a deed for the Brest, the return in Paris resembles a miracle for a team that, in its first European campaign, already has the duties done .

Juventus exceeded 2 to 1 to PSV Eindhoven and will have to close the key next week in the Netherlands. The Argentine Nicolás González fue titular en el conjunto italiano, mientras que Walter Benítez atajó en el PSV. The goalkeeper had a fatal mistake to give a bad short rebound and let his rival in the second goal, converted by Samuel Mbangula 7 from the end.

Juventus had begun on the scoreboard with the goal of Weston McKennie, but the Dutch painting matched him by the hand of Croatian Ivan Perisic.

The one who does seem to have liquidated the key, like the PSG, is the Borussia Dortmund that in Lisbon thrashed 3 to 0 to Sporting. Los tantos los hicieron Sehrou Guirassy, Pascal Gross y Karim Adeyemi, todos en el segundo tiempo. En Almania espera sellar el pasaje a octavos.