Real Madrid has once again come back from an adverse result in qualifying rounds and has knocked English Manchester City out of the competition after beating them 3-2 in extra time at the historic Santiago Bernabéu, for which they will face Liverpool in the Champions League final.
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Madrid and City, in white and light blue respectively, came out to fight to break the other from possession of the ball and correct positioning, the Iberian team proposing one more round-trip game, the English for slowing down transitions and not exposing themselves .
Despite a dizzying start to the second half of the Spanish club, City managed to recover and establish their dominance, although they ran into a wall called Thibaut Courtois, the Belgian goalkeeper who with great saves lengthened the fall of his goal until the 73rd minute where An unstoppable shot from Algerian Riyad Mahrez rocked the Bernabéu nets.
If we add to Courtois’ performance that Real Madrid’s left-back, Ferland Mendy, took one on the goal line and Vinícius Júnior had previously missed a play that looked like a sung goal, the result would be Real Madrid eliminated.
However, Carlo Ancelotti, coach of the team known as the merengues, had already brought out his ace up his sleeve, Rodrygo Goes, the Brazilian who, together with Marco Asensio and especially Eduardo Camavinga in the 75th minute, they would end up giving Real Madrid another magical night at the legendary stadium located on Paseo de la Castellana.
As if dressing up as Sergio Ramos in that Lisbon final in 2014, Rodrygo scored in the 90th minute and ignited Madrid’s hopes, with only six minutes left to play, due to the extension given by the main referee of the match, the Italian Davide Orsato .
Rodrygo does it again: he sends a pass from Marco Asensio into the back of the net and sends into extra time less than five minutes before Real Madrid’s elimination from the competition that they have won thirteen times.
OFFICIAL!! FINAL CONFIRMED!! Real Madrid and Liverpool will meet again in a UEFA Champions League FINAL. Los Blancos blew City away in another tie for the books and entered the title game. The Seventh or The Fourteenth. WHAT AWAITS US. pic.twitter.com/1SBkXuK92n
— Invictos (@InvictosSomos)
May 4, 2022
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At minute five of the first of the two 15-half periods that make up extra time, City’s central defender, Aymeric Laporte, shot down Karim Benzema, the scorer of the current edition of the tournament in question, who would end up scoring his goal from the penalty spot. fifteenth goal of the match and giving Real Madrid the pass to the final.
On May 28, the English Liverpool and the Spanish Real Madrid will face each other in a final that repeats the one lived on May 26, 2018, which was the last one won by the Iberian team, then led by the Frenchman, Zinedine Zidane.
It is worth mentioning that the upcoming Champions Cup final would be the seventeenth European that Real Madrid plays in its history, of which it has only lost three: the first against the Portuguese Benfica in 1962, the second against the Italian Inter Milan in 1964 and the last one, precisely against Liverpool in 1981.
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