2024-04-20 23:44:16
Spanish Real Madrid was able to strip its English host, Manchester City, of the title by defeating them 4-3 on penalties after the end of regular and extra time in a 1-1 draw on Wednesday at the “Etihad” Stadium in Manchester in the second leg of the semi-finals of the European Champions League football competition.
Real Madrid was the first to score through Brazilian Rodrigo (12), and Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (76) equalized, which was the result of the first leg in Madrid, 3-3.
Real Madrid will meet in the next round with Bayern Munich, who qualified by beating Arsenal 1-0 in the return leg in Munich after they tied 2-2 in the first leg in London.
Real Madrid responded to Manchester City, which stripped them of their title last season when they beat them 4-0 in Manchester after they tied 1-1 in the first leg in Madrid on their way to the first title in their history.
This is the second time that Real Madrid has eliminated City from the competition, after doing so the season before last in the semi-finals on its way to its record fourteenth title.
The Royal Club owes its victory to its Ukrainian international goalkeeper Andriy Lunin, who saved several balls in regular and extra time before saving two penalty kicks from Portuguese Bernardo Silva and Croatian Mateo Kovačić, a former Royal Club player.
City had the advantage in the penalty shootout after Argentine Julián Alvarez took the lead, and veteran Croatian Luka Modric missed for the Royal Club, but Lunin excelled by stopping the attempts of Silva and Kovacic, while Englishman Jude Billingham, Lucas Vasques, captain Nacho Fernandez, and German Antonio Rudiger scored the remaining kicks for Real, compared to two kicks scored for City. Phil Foden and goalkeeper Ederson.
The contract for the teams qualifying for the semi-finals was completed after Paris Saint-Germain of France and Borussia Dortmund of Germany reserved their tickets on Tuesday at the expense of Barcelona and Atletico Madrid of Spain.
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