Manchester City’s hopes of reaching a first Champions League final were ended by Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu as an own goal from Fernando secured a 1-0 victory for the Spanish giants. Perhaps, from the right position or get a birds eye view?
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Ronaldo, who also revealed that he is “happy” to have overcome a thigh problem to feature, has also welcomed another all-Madrid final with Atletico Madrid.
Zidane’s men controlled the game into the second-half as they tried to kill off Manchester City with every move.
City lacked real intensity throughout both halves, with top scorer Sergio Aguero failing to touch the ball inside the area, and the hosts held out comfortably as they look for an 11th success in the competition. We’ll have to see if it just makes their task harder or if it ultimately breaks them and derails their effort to take down Real Madrid. “We suffered because that always happens in semi-finals, but we’ve got through to the final and that is what is important for us”.
“We are going to play against Atletico Madrid and I am happy because it will be special in the Champions League final”.
Pellegrini finally succeeded where predecessor Roberto Mancini failed, but City’s demanding owners will be expecting Guardiola to take their club into the latter stages as a minimum requirement.
‘We could easily be in the final, ‘ Hart said directly after the match during an interview with BT Sport. I don’t think any of the teams deserved to win.
“It doesn’t matter who scored-whether it’s an own goal or whatever”, he added. They had a lot of fortune with their goal.
“We should have gone to penalties because I don’t think Real were better than us”.
You need a little bit of luck but that wasn’t the reason we couldn’t win the game. We won’t have the same game as the second leg against Wolfsburg.
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Assuming he’s not too injured to play, Navas would become the first Costa Rican football player to ever play in a Champions League final when Madrid meets league and cross-town rival Atlético Madrid in the May 28th championship game. We didn’t create many chances – like in the first leg. We were not very creative in the last third.
