a year ago, the real Madrid staged an epic comeback fight City of Manchester which gave him a pass to the final of Champions from Paris against Liverpool thanks to a miraculous brace from the Brazilian Rodrygo will gothat the game was almost over, and a goal from a penalty in extra time of Karim Benzema. However, the first meeting between the two teams in the top continental club competition was also a madness in a memorable match for the Whites, who won in one of their usual outbursts of anger in their favorite competition.
On September 18, 2012, real Madrid and the rich City of Manchester is measured on the first day of the league by Championsa group D where also the Borussia Dortmund and the Ajax Amsterdam. It was a match in which the English came to lead twice on the scoreboard.
the bosnian Edin Dzekowho was not part of the English team’s starting eleven, put the city within Santiago Bernabeu after losing Iker Casillas at 68′. However, after about eight minutes, the Brazilian Marcelo put the tables on the scoreboard.
With the Bernabeu in full swing, a new jug of cold water arrived for the whites, who conceded 1-2 in the 85th minute through the Serbian Alexander Kolarovwho came as a substitute, and a good number of Madrid fans left the field thinking that a comeback was impossible.
However, there is a brilliant merengue reaction. Benzema, who appeared as an abomination in the final period, equalized again in the 87′ after receiving a pass from Mary said. And when the 90′ was fulfilled, Cristiano Ronaldo appeared with an unstoppable right hand against the English goal Joe Hart to give a suffering victory to real Madrid (3-2).
The white team has not won a game of European Cup which started losing since October 20, 2005. On that day, the rosenborg the norwegian made it 0-1 and the meringues came back to win.
After the merengue exhibition against the CityJose Mourinho He puffed out his chest and said “this is Madrid and this is what the lord means. The master is not a cheap philosophy, it is dying in the field. For his part, the then ‘citizen’ coach, the Italian Roberto Mancini lamented the cruel defeat. “Losing Madrid you can be normal, but falling like this, no,” he said in the press room at the Bernabéu.
That Madrid de Mou, however, could not cover the Champions because he was eliminated in the semifinals of Borussia Dortmundafter the historic goal poker signed by the Pole robert lewankowskinow a Barça striker, at Signal Iduna Park (4-1).
The millionaire City of Manchestermeanwhile, under Group D and outside Europe, with three points and no win in a single game in the six he played. English bid farewell to the competition after falling to a Borussia Dortmund (1-0) who put in a lot of reserves and finished the league with 14 points, three more than Real Madrid.
Technical sheet of Real Madrid-City (3-2)
Real Madrid: boxes; Arbeloa, Varane, Pepe, Marcelo; Khedira (Modric, m.72), Xabi Alonso, Essien (Ozil, m.65), Di María; Cristiano Ronaldo and Higuain (Benzema, m.72).
Manchester City: Hart, Clichy, Kompany, Nastasic, Maicon (Zabaleta, m.73); Touré Yayá, Barry, Javi García, Nasri (Kolarov, m.36); Silva (Dzeko, m.62) and Tevez.
The objectives: 0-1, Dzeko (d. 68); 1-1, Marcelo (d. 76); 1-2, Kolarov (d. 85); 2-2, Benzema (d. 87); 3-2, Cristiano Ronaldo (m.90)
Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia). He showed yellow cards to Javi García (m.52), Kompany (m. 69) and Dzeko (m. 88)
Incidents: The match on the first day of Group D of the Champions League was played at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in front of approximately 70,381 spectators.
Source: La Verdad
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