10′Manchester City hold the ball hard and well. It’s hard to get the ball off the English
7′De Bruyne’s first dangerous arrival! The Belgian shoots and finds the mitt of Courtois
5′Gundogan’s shot was cleared by Carvajal. City had more of the ball in this first period
3′Real Madrid came out motivated and the game had a good rhythm in these first minutes
2′Finally, Manchester City played in what would become a 3-2-4-1 with Stones in a double pivot with Rodri
1′Strong free kick to Rodrygo in midfield
1START THE GAME, PLAY MANCHESTER CITY
20:58Real Madrid and Manchester City players are jumping!
20:58Both teams are already in the substitution tunnel about to leave. Manchester City will wear black and red and Real Madrid, obviously, in white
20:55There will be typhus in the south end of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and they will pray: “The King and his Cup!
20:51Only ten minutes to this Champions League match between Real Madrid and Manchester City! Here we live it
20:47Real Madrid and Manchester City players retire to the change room tunnel to receive the latest addresses from Guardiola and Ancelotti
20:44Only 15 minutes left! We review the starting eleven:
REAL MADRID: Courtois; Carvajal, Rudiger, Alaba, Camavinga; Kroos, Modric, Valverde; Rodrygo, Vinicius and Benzema
CITY OF MANCHESTER: Ederson; Walker, Ruben Dias, Akanji, Stones, Rodri, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Grealish and Haaland
20:41Who will be the main character here? REAL MADRID – MANCHESTER CITY? Vinicius? love? Courtois? De Bruyne?
20:38The referee of the match will be the Portuguese Artur Dias. Good luck to him and may he not have to be so decisive now!
20:31The two teams are already warming up on the pitch of a Bernabéu that is filling up for the big event. Let’s remember that this is the last Champions League match to be held in Madrid’s stadium
20:24Just over half an hour until the game starts! Any predictions for this rivalry between Real Madrid and Manchester City in the Champions League?
20:20The English team had to eliminate RB Salzburg (8-1) and Bayern Munich (4-1) to reach this semifinal, the third in a row.
20:14Compared to last year, his most effective asset, obviously, is Erling Haaland who has already broken the 50-goal barrier in his first season in England and has a good chance tonight at the Bernabéu.
The City, by his chance
For his part, he City of Manchester He came into this fight with the memory of the last one still in his memory but he knew that now they had a new chance. In the middle of the fight for the Premier against Arsenal and the FA Cup final on the horizon against Manchester United, Guardiola’s men arrived with only one defensive casualty Ake.
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20:07He real Madrid He is used to playing this type of match and this will be his 11th semifinal in the last 13 editions. To get here he has already lost Liverpool (6-2) and Chelsea (4-0)
20:03As for the footballers, the white team appears to have only casualties of military by sanction and Mendy due to the injury being healed ceballos at the last minute available on the bench.
Madrid, partying
We start with the local team, the Real Madrid. The whites come from winning the Copa del Rey on Saturday in Seville against Osasuna (2-1) with a brace from Rodrigo and a stellar performance from Rodrygo. This gave a lot of confidence to the merengue team who will face this game with a lot of motivation knowing that they are two games away from playing the new Champions League final.
7:50 p.mWell, now that the starting eleven has been revealed and with the two teams in the Madrid stadium, let’s do a little analysis of how the two teams arrived, Real Madrid and Manchester City, in this game and what are the main duels as a preview. Let’s get started!
19:48On the sky blue bench will be: Ortega Moreno, Carson, Lewis, Laporte, Sergio Gómez, Phillips, Foden, Palmer, Mahrez and Julián Álvarez.
19:44Guardiola expects the same. It remains to be seen if John Stones will play as a left-back in the defense of four, or if he will do it in a double pivot with Rodri who has a defense of three. In the end, Grealish was chosen ahead of Mahrez and Bernardo, De Bruyne and Gundogan will manage to inject quality into the national team.
7:39 p.mPep Guardiola’s picks are: Ederson; Walker, Ruben Dias, Akanji, Stones, Rodri, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Grealish and Haaland
19:37The Manchester City starting XI is now official!
19:33So far, Real Madrid’s welcome to Concha Espina has been lavish. Screams, flares and flags as the team slowly approaches their position in the stadium.
19:31As the Manchester City bus drove past, Madrid fans booed Pep Guardiola
19:28Manchester City have just arrived at the Bernabéu. His bus was already at the stadium and the players trained in the visiting locker room of the Merengue stadium
19:24The Real Madrid bus is approaching the Santiago Bernabéu stadium
19:18Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola’s eleven is still unknown. It is in doubt that Aké, touched, or Grealish could be selected ahead of Mahrez in the starting eleven
19:13At this moment, Real Madrid players are leaving the Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas for the Santiago Bernabéu stadium
19:12Undoubtedly, what is expected of Carlo Ancelotti considering the casualties of Militao and Mendy and, above all, what he commented yesterday in a press conference. Toni Kroos will once again be the team’s pivot with Modric and Valverde inside the house. Rodrygo repeated in the eleven after his double in the Cup final and Rüdiger was selected alongside Alaba to try to stop Erling Haaland
19:05In the bank will be: Lunin, Luis Lopez; Vallejo, Nacho, Hazard, Asensio, Odriozola, Lucas, Tchouaméni, Ceballos and Mariano
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19:02Ancelotti’s picks are: Courtois; Carvajal, Rudiger, Alaba, Camavinga; Kroos, Modric, Valverde; Rodrygo, Vinicius and Benzema
19:01And let’s go with the starting eleven of Real Madrid!
7:00 p.mAlthough there was still half an hour or so for the Real Madrid bus to reach the stadium, the Plaza de los Sagrados Corazones was full. There is no one else to meet the team
18:49Around the Santiago Bernabéu there is already such an atmosphere of big nights and the fact is that the fans have planned to make a massive welcome to the team bus arriving at the stadium as usual. Even the club made a video to finish motivating the few who haven’t
18:46Match that, as you know, starts at 9:00 pm
18:45Good afternoon! Welcome to the live narration of Real Madrid – Manchester City of the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions League
Source: La Verdad

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