The Champions League semi-final opens with a storm: In just 11 minutes, Manchester City have already climbed to a 0: 2 advantage over Real Madrid. The team that knew how to get out of pits got into a difficult hole, against one of the best teams on the continent – which simply crushed it with goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus.
For Real, this is a historic low: This is the first time in Real’s history in the Champions League that it has conceded two goals in that time. At the same time, the goal scored by Kevin de Bruyne is the fastest in the history of Manchester City in the Champions League – only 93 seconds.
This is the seventh game between Real and City in the Champions League. In the first four, City failed to win – but in the last meeting between them, as I recall, they won both meetings and beat Real in the 2019/20 season.
Whoever tried to bring Real back into the game was Karim Benzema, who scored the shrinking goal in the 33rd minute. The Frenchman is the first to score over 40 goals a season for Real Madrid, since the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer of 2018. This is Benzema’s 600th appearance in all competitions, making him the eighth player in club history to reach this feat, and the first of them non-Spanish.
The networks also responded to the collapse. Here are some of the tweets:
Real Madrid so far. ???????? pic.twitter.com/RoRAnODgFI
— FootballFunnys (@FootballFunnnys) April 26, 2022
Man City 2-0 Real Madrid (11’) pic.twitter.com/CXcs0Iysxv
— B/R Football (@brfootball) April 26, 2022
Gabriel Jesus ???? Goals vs Real Madrid pic.twitter.com/dk9YlgBqND
— City Xtra (@City_Xtra) April 26, 2022
Real Madrid rn pic.twitter.com/amgUf1iFs8
— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) April 26, 2022