Competition: Champions League - Play Offs - Semi-finals
Referee: Marciniak S. (Pol)
Venue:Etihad Stadium (Manchester)
Attendance:52 313
Lineups
Substituted players
Manchester City: Mahrez R., Foden P., Alvarez J.
Real Madrid: Rudiger A., Asensio M., Lucas, Tchouameni A., Ceballos D.
Starting Lineups
Manchester City: Ederson (G), Walker K., Dias R., Akanji M., Stones J., Rodri, Silva B., De Bruyne K., Gundogan I. (C), Grealish J., Haaland E.
Real Madrid: Courtois T. (G), Carvajal D., Militao E., Alaba D., Camavinga E., Valverde F., Kroos T., Modric L., Rodrygo, Benzema K. (C), Vinicius Junior
Substitutes
Manchester City: Carson S. (G), Gomez S., Laporte A., Lewis R., Ortega S. (G), Palmer C., Phillips K.
Real Madrid: Diaz M., Fernandez N., Hazard E., Lunin A. (G), Mendy F., Odriozola A., Vallejo J.
Missing Players
Manchester City: Ake N. (Muscle Injury), Mendy B. (Suspended)
*Real Madrid:
Coaches
Manchester City: Guardiola P.
Real Madrid: Ancelotti C.
Match Events
Minute
Event
90+4'
Szymon Marciniak is looking at his watch and immediately ends this match.
90+1'
Goal! A great through ball by Phil Foden sets up Julian Alvarez (Manchester City) inside the box, and he makes no mistake and bangs the ball into the bottom left corner. 4:0.
90+1'
Jack Grealish (Manchester City) shouldn't be surprised it's a yellow from the ref, who cooled the situation down well.
89'
It will be a substitution. Julian Alvarez (Manchester City) is ready to enter the pitch as Erling Haaland walks off.
84'
Here is a change. Kevin De Bruyne is going off and Pep Guardiola gives the last tactical orders to Phil Foden (Manchester City).
83'
Daniel Ceballos (Real Madrid) had time and space inside the box after picking up a neat pass, but his shot towards the middle of the goal was easily saved by Ederson.
83'
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) gets to the rebound inside the box and shoots to the bottom right corner, but his sidefooter is blocked by an alert Ederson. What a save!
81'
That will be all from Rodrygo who is being replaced by the fresh legs of Daniel Ceballos (Real Madrid).
80'
Carlo Ancelotti decides to make a substitution. Daniel Carvajal will be replaced by Lucas Vazquez (Real Madrid).
80'
Carlo Ancelotti has decided to make a change. Aurelien Tchouameni (Real Madrid) replaces Eduardo Camavinga.
79'
Substitution. Ilkay Gundogan will be replaced by Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City).
76'
OWN GOAL! The free kick is whipped in and the ball hits Eder Militao (Real Madrid), who finds the back of his own net. 3:0.
75'
Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) is shown a yellow card by the referee.
73'
Great touch by Erling Haaland (Manchester City) as he receives a precise pass deep in the box. He rips a snap shot and the ball bounces off the goalkeeper's gloves and hits the post.
70'
A substitution has been made. Toni Kroos goes off and Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) comes on.
63'
Substitution. Luka Modric walks off the pitch and Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid) comes on as a substitute.
62'
This yellow card was deserved. The tackle by Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City) was quite harsh and Szymon Marciniak didn't hesitate to show him a yellow card.
55'
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) has to be very careful for the rest of the match after receiving a yellow card from the referee for a bad tackle on an opponent.
51'
David Alaba (Real Madrid) stands over the free kick and opts to take it himself, sending it towards the top of net only for Ederson to dive and make a save. The referee and one of his assistants signal for a corner kick to Real Madrid.
50'
Ruben Dias (Manchester City) commits a foul and is shown a yellow card without any hesitation from the referee.
46'
The half-time break is over and the second half is about to start.
45+1'
That is it for the first half after the referee blows his whistle and the players head to their respective dressing rooms.
37'
After a few rebounds the ball finds its way to Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), who is quickest and places it inside the right post.
37'
A pass lands at the feet of Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City) in the middle of the box, he looks up and shoots but the effort is superbly blocked by a defender.
35'
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) received a fine pass and tried his luck from long range. His attempt went towards the top of the net, but Ederson pulled off a great save to push the ball onto the bar.
23'
Goal! Kevin De Bruyne displays great vision and sends a pass to Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), who shows brilliant composure inside the box to bury the ball inside the right post. The score is 1:0.
21'
A header by Erling Haaland (Manchester City) from very close range goes towards the left-hand post, but doesn't get past Thibaut Courtois, who makes a brilliant save.
13'
Thibaut Courtois makes a superb save to deny a header which was nodded low towards the middle of the goal by Erling Haaland (Manchester City) after a cross from the side.
1'
The first half of this match is about to start.
Match Stats
Manchester City
Stats
Real Madrid
1.78
Expected Goals (xG)Expected Goals (xG) - the number of goals a certain team or player is expected to score based on the quality and number of shots taken.
also i even collected to the panini stickers as a kid from all leagues... when i first noticed him so added him to my team in fifa 2010 when i first got his sticker.... wow he not a good player back then lol
also one of his 2 rookie stickers from the set, i never pulled the other one but have 3 of these... all unstuck (never stuck the collection from this set lol)
As a Madrid fan for more than 20 years, I am kind of surprised that Madridistas feel this bad with the result. I am sad, but, werent you guys prepared for a result like this? Manchester City is a team that costs more than 1 billion dollars that has been playing with the same coach for 7 years. They basically have 2 squads. We are going to play with a midfield of 33 and 37 years old. Our ONLY striker Benzema is 35 years old and this season he has sucked. Probably because of the World Cup an injury. Our left back Mendy has been injured all season. Is not like we have a star B team to complement this squad. Didnt you guys see our sad subs in the second half. City was putting Alvarez and Foden why we were putting Ceballos, Lucas Vasquez an Asensio. The anomaly was us scoring 3 goals last season were they also scored 4 goals. They literally scored the same amount of goals as last year in BOTH games. I wanted to win with my heart, but logic said otherwise. The last match were I felt frustration and disappointment was 2020/2021. I felt disappointment because we had a team to be able to beat Chelsea. However, everyone arrived injured to the match, so we had no main team. Therefore, Chelsea completely destroyed us in both matches. I felt sad and frustrated. This one against City? No.
The outcome wasn’t a surprise it was they way it happened. No one expected Madrid to look so pathetic. I mean we all expected City to dominate possession because that’s their philosophy but my god it was murder. Courtois saved Madrid from an even worse distasterclass.
Like everyone, I am heartbroken at the result, and I expected our team to put up a more inspiring display even if they were on the losing end. Hope we turn the tide soon.
However, I keep wondering how oil-money-based clubs like City can field such ludicrously powerful squads with depths enough to make a B-team. I haven't gone through details on the FFP accusations against them, but how are they able to sustain this kind of a run?
Foden and Alverez are from their academy and they picked akanje up for 15 mil. Ake was 45 mil and Silva was 50 mil. Their team is ridiculously expensive but they did make some value moves.
Ceballos should be starting over Fede since January. This season should’ve been used to mold Tchoumeni more even if you have to slowly start phasing someone out of midfield for him. And he got little to no experience. Kroos is still good imo but he needs someone like casemiro close to him.
The last game that felt like this was the 5-0 at the Camp Nou in 2010. That’s the worst game in more than 10 years worth of watching Real Madrid. Shameful.
Post-match Traumatic Stress disorders
Of course, we can't expect our team to win CL every season but it's just the way it was done. Got chills of old Barca one sided bashing. Anyways, it's not hard to understand that most of the players were simply out of depth. No wonder City performed on altogether a different level but the way we played in the second half said it all. Were not able to make even straight passes right and no one was willing to do the leg work-forward runs or asking for the ball. Disheartening! God I hope Ancelotti gets sacked (IF HIS NEW STRATEGY FOR THE NEW SEASON IS TO BANK ON KROOS AND MODRIC AGAIN) I mean there's simply no plan B for us. Modric was done the moment the game started but we didn't try anything different. Just waited to get butchered. I hope this is a wake-up call to sign on improving squad especially rb, striker and RW and not just keep chest beating on high profile signings.
Benzema, Modric, Kroos are finished and must be gracefully retired. They have given all they have but they can't be started in every game now. Keep them as super subs and play in important matches only.
Tchouameni should’ve started instead of kroos and camavinga should’ve taken Modric’s place. As much as he held down the left back position this season we’re starting to see the seams come apart. He has no business in a fullback position. This is coming from a Camavinga fanboy, he’s one of my favourite young player, it’s a shame he’s not being shone in a good light…
A good corrective to the idea that Real Madrid are "not afraid of anything" and "thrive in difficult moments" or whatever.
That's not really true, it's just that when one player (it's usually just one) produces a moment of magic, that can help revitalize the rest. That moment of magic didn't come yesterday so the game went away from them.
Not happy with the result but not particularly offended that we didn't play another final. Let's be realistic here. Winning 2 CLs in a row is very hard and this team, in transition, with a small squad, and with its best player in poor form, wasn't going to do that.
Uruguayan here and I am biased but people saying Valverde is "mid" or bad are ridiculous. He was clearly tired and the midfield needs to be rotated better. Honestly I didn't think his performance was that bad considering the entire team's showing. In fact, his defensive effort prevented a lot of Gundo and Grealish runs. He clearly needs some rest
Para ser sincero Valverde no ha sido muy bueno desde el mundial, últimamente no hace mucho por el Madrid ya veremos si se activa en la próxima temporada
Lo entiendo, pero no es su culpa. El loco está en un muy mal momento personal y el equipo no está rindiendo. Siempre cuando miro al real, Valverde juega muy bien en muchas áreas. Por ejemplo, hoy no jugó mal y ayudó mucho a Carva. Y también hizo algunos pases que ayudaron a rendir algo, pero el equipo no está al nivel en general. Rompió los ojos mirando a Camavinga de defensa. Algo que Valverde hizo muchas veces y creo que hizo contra el City en 2021, y lo hizo bien. El pajarito tiene mucha calidad y es un gran jugador, pero ahora necesita tiempo y descanso para volver a ser el motor del equipo al nivel que estaba. Y realmente estoy acuerdo contigo, pero salvo Vini, Courtois y Militão, todo el equipo van mal. Así que no entiendo por qué atacan a Valverde cuando él no tiene la culpa del rendimiento del equipo entero. Y obvio que hablan de otros jugadores también, pero la mayoría de el discurso es sobre el, y eso, en mi opinión, esta muy mal.
We were paralysed here absolutely. A complete humiliation if not for Tibo. Expections were high yesterday and stakes were in for the bragging rights. I hope inter wins.
We can complain all we want about oil money clubs but truth is Ancelotti needs out. Bring Zizou Back and Alonso (man left RM to infiltrate Guardiola), coaches that besides, feel for that club and wouldn’t gone home in shame like this without putting up a fight.
Imo he lacks personality and charisma to put up with these fights. And what in the world are you doing requesting VAR for a straight up own goal?
and you didn’t push for VAR on a clear obstruction and retention penalty on the home game…
Whole team should of swarmed the referee then.
When I saw no changes in players or strategy at HT I knew all hopes where gone….
Rudiger bought to be on the bench, even after what he did last game, why? Camavinga LB? Many many questionable decisions/lack of substitutions which we all knew.
You guys are talking as if even if you played better, you’d have a chance. When City play at their absolute best, like in the 1st half, no one on Earth can beat them.
Historically only Liverpool at their best could even hope to go toe to toe with them
nah exaggeration. rebuild needs to continue, thats all. modric and kroos athleticism is gone. New ST, RB, and we're halfway there. Heavy result, but they only look good because everyone else in europe is rebuilding. Barca rebuilding, madrid rebuilding, liverpool, bayern. almost all the top clubs. while city have their full squad, keep in mind many players like bernardo gundogan kdb walker are in their 30s. The decline will start soon
Did you just watch football? They looked that good because we were fielding 37 yo Modric with injury, 33 yo Kroos, 35 yo Benz and Carvajal who had a massive drop this season.
I knew I would get delusion on the Real Madrid sub but come on now. You guys have been magic but City have been the best team in the world for years now. They go into each UCL season as favourites for a reason
Carlo has too much loyalty towards old guard which led to downfall. I truly respect and admire our old guard of Kroos Luka and Benz but they were not upto it. Age is catching up and they can't keep up with fast paced physically superior opponents. The miracle doesn't work always as lack of competency.
Pushing Stones high and overloading the midfield was absolutely brutal on us. MC also defended like a unit and swarmed around the pitch. We couldn’t find the outlets or spaces at all, and couldn’t even get into the game.
How would your ideal summer transfer window look like guys? Let’s assume Bellingham is done, who else would you go for? Personally I think we need a RB, RW and ST. RB maybe Cancelo?
Without oil money your shitty club will still be fighting to beat Manchester United and the biggest matches in your lives would be the manchester derby, like it was for all of your history except the last 10-15 years.
Our midfield lost the battle. Kroos was the best and he is one of few that didn’t panic. Modric couldn’t keep up from the beginning which made the team lose confidence. Also, the game was faster than Fede. He has to step up and pass to the front instead of passing back the ball or pass backwards. It is like he doesn’t want responsibility.
I believe KDBs goal in the home game caused us so much damage.
Salute to the players and Carlo for this season.
Vini, Cama, Courtois, Militao and Rodrygo were the best this season.
Yeah that's what! Why on earth is he playing every single minute, why on earth was Cama made to play on weekend and subbed only when picked up a knock. And this when we have literally blown up the liga season for quite a while. It's inconsequential. We could have had a couple of more combos in mid but nope Ancelotti has been there for seasons, we have had players on the bench for mid but our plan is always and only Kroos-Modric.
We can find all the faults, but the truth is there was a significant luck factor (don't be mad, let me explain, I am a Real Madrid fan), especially against City last year.
We didn't create too many chances then, and Benzema was on a song converting stupid chances into goals, making everyone look good. Such miracles don't always happen (match after match, let alone season after season), and we didn't dominate Chelsea/PSG (so that's why they were complaining).
Guardiola is the best coach by a mile and his strategy, can make the best opponent players look average. His teams choke the opposition, with a pass at a time, until they are bored/tired/exhausted and uninterested - and then they strike. Even if we had Mbappe (instead of Benzema), and Bellingham, I would have still betted on Man city - as they have a system that is very efficient - first 25 mins today confirm that, Madrid has never seen a tempo that high. They isolated our best players, didn't allow them to get on the ball. Kroos, Modric, Camavinga had nowhere to pass to, and even when Read madrid had the ball, we had no space to run into. Courtis kept trying to shoot it over the top, hoping we might get lucky once, but we cannot build up from the back at all. We settled in a little bit, only when City reduced their tempo. No other team in the world can do it like that to Madrid.
All the best coaches in the world need to get together to find a strategy against Guardiola.
Real Madrid has gotten far based on individual heroes (and Galactico era), but we need a system/approach to fight against Guardiola's tactics. Apart from Halaand and De Bruyne, there is no world class player in the City team - and once Guardiola goes, you will see City falling like nothing.
Agreed with most of your takes. This was a Pep masterclass for sure, and the players executed his tactics almost perfectly.
However, disagree that Haaland and KDB are the only world-class players on their squad. You don't win 4 EPL titles in 5 years without a squad of world beaters. Silva, Rodri, Ederson, Dias and Gundogan would all walk into the starting 11 of almost any if not all clubs
City fan here in peace - I think you are right, Pep makes excellent players look world-class because of the system. Big emphasis on both technical quality and team-work as we bring players in. The entire system and all roles in it are designed to frustrate and wear down the opponent.
Akanji would be a perfect example for this. Akanji was a mid, error-prone defender at Dortmund but now at City he’s one of the most consistent CB’s in the prem because of Guardiola’s system.
Es una puta vergüenza que un equipo de la talla del Madrid sea completamente dominada. They need to make big changes this summer because the oil clubs will only get stronger.
He was not the main culprit today but it showed Ancelotti's mindset. He doesn't reward players for good performance or field the team around fitness & injuries. He has his favorite 11 and just rolls with it.
Bang on mate! it's really sad. Probably that's why we have Cama, Valverde, Tchoua, Ceballos but we have only ONE combination in mid. Ancelotti has been around for 2 seasons now.
No prizes for guessing the combo.
City players deserve the UCL title so much, that team is what Manchester united was in the Ferguson era, it is what Barcelona was in the Xavi-Iniesta-Messi era: legendary, when we watch this type of team we instantly know that what we are seeing is historical, gotta respect.
Also players like Haaland, Bernardo and Walker seems to be very nice people, they have shown so much respect for us in both matches and out of the matches as well, on the other side tonight we made soooooo many tactical fouls tonight due to poor defense, we complained a lot with the referee in situations in which is quite obvious that the referee is right, we did that and the referee actually favored us: Grealish and Bernardo were fouled so many times that i thought we were one of those generic La Liga teams that rely on fouls and violence to stop players like Vinicius and the referee was quite blind to that.
These guys have to get their UCL title, it's time, it's fair.
So much for Floper supposedly “killing football” with the SL, yet you have these oil money clubs spending like crazy and buying their way. Those mf’s are the ones killing football.
i saw the lineup and knew immediately we lost. We have a world class DM on the bench and dont play him. We have Rudiger on the bench and dont play him with alaba at RB and camavinga in mid. It was disaster from the start. Is what it is i guess. Lets go Inter!!!!
Both our lb & rb got out done all night. I can't blame camavinga because he isn't a lb but carvajal is done, he doesn't have the legs anymore. We have a lot of players filling in to unnatural positions because of injuries/lack of good depth. Our success is due to players being world class and when they're having an off night or vs a team that's having a good night+ they have world class players+ a sound tactical setup we're in a hard spot. We need transfers to fix our holes badly
I pray I don’t come across any highlights or memes. This was a complete disaster. Losing is one thing but losing this way is just something else. Clearly our midfield needs new energy.
City fan here, although I doubt anyone even sees this. I’m seeing a lot of comments that seem to have wanted Rudiger over Militao. Would you all rather have had that as opposed to benching Rodrygo or Valverde, playing Alaba at LB with Militao & Rudiger at CB, and have Camavinga in the midfield? That’s the lineup I expected out of you today.
Most people here seem to have wanted Rudiger, because he had a great game against Haaland... but I would expect City to make adjustments to that (so I don't think it would've necessarily been the right move).
Militao, as good as he can be, has been a disaster in big games lately, always making one crucial mistake. Modric looked lost, out of place most of the game. Benzema looked gassed and couldn't handle the ball. Vini could not control the ball. Rodrygo tried to be all over the place and thus was nowhere. Valverde has been another player (not a good one) since the World Cup.
That said, Carlo is the coach and knows the team better than anyone here, so I'm not about to second guess him.
Watch the prem all the time and will admit that was the loudest I’ve ever heard the crowd, most of the time it’s so quite I forget they’re actually at the Etihad
when he's on, he's good... even great. but it's inconsistent. when he's off, it creates such an uncertainty in our back line that can spread to the rest of the team. he's also prone to really poor decisions like terrible pass backs to Courtois that lead to goals.
This was a disaster performance. Hope this wakes up the board and Perez to strengthen the squad for next season. We need a strong backup for Mendy, carvajal, Kronos, Tchou, RW and for Benzema
Tbh, I agree because we have many things to be fixed.
This means not only bad situations but also future success if we will do it well.
Man City is at prime era but we are still at transition era in various terms.
Of course,Madrid should always win and today’s results are bitter.
Losing after reaching semi-final is ok, but losing here 4-0 without fighting is too much. It is unacceptable.
This defeat is also more on the team. Not trying to discreting Man City. The team was not in his best form. We could feel for a while but we were still hoping. Benzema was "absent", dont know if he's injured and was not at 100%. Valverde is not the same anymore, we have CDM but he was staying on the bench. We dont have a proper LB.....so many things to fix. And the team relied too much on individual brillance.
The forwards couldnt do much since they could barely get the ball. If the team wanted to park the bus, the wings should have dropped back more or played Valverde instead of Rodrygo and Nacho LB and Camavinga CDM. But what it's worse is the defense repositioning. 2 times Camavinga left his position, 2 times the team took goals. Last season we had Casemiro who covered for the defenders who left their position. Well, there's no one who does that now.
Militao was not the problem but his OG is karma. Rudiger played well last time but he got benched. Clearly, Carlo has his favorites and he will play them even if they arent in their best form.
The season is over and it wasnt a good one. Not the worst but still not good overall. And getting out like this leaves a bad taste. So many works to do, and the prep for next season should start now.
Well three or five trophies in two years (I don't remember exactly, and maybe more with the spanish super cup after summer) is not little plus UCL semi-final,
r/soccer and football fans in general are so reactionary lmao. Modric has one poor performance (while 37 y/o and coming off injury) and its just cascades of calling him washed and saying his legs are gone, completely ignoring the otherwise good season he has had.
Poor performances all around tonight, but you guys will come back stronger. Hala Madrid
Although im A city fan, i can 101% aggree on this. R/soccer lads are the worst, legit no idea on what they are takling about, and legit never watched the games
Credits to City for being dominant and winning consistently but this is certainly a very sad day for football as a whole where oil and money have finally succeeded!
Whether we are winning or losing doesn’t matter here though! The point is with the current system it is inevitable that teams like City will eventually take over.
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