That doesn’t mean Madrid won last night, because they certainly didn’t. A 4-3 result when you have three is a loss in the scorebook. And it’s that kind of confusing analysis that will keep you coming back. But Madrid “won” the match conceding a goal when the second leg was at home, where the white hounds appeared to bite PSG and Chelsea, both play better than Madrid in most relationships with their two feet, which is something they will be comfortable with. And they “win” because they should be down by three or four, or 12.
Do you have a friend who, regardless of the topic you’re arguing about, just gives the easiest, most accessible, hardest argument to come up with but that’s always the trump card? For example, in the most frustrating debate of our time, LeBron vs. MJ, no matter how well you arrange LeBron’s case (because he’s better), that friend will be the one. just hold up six fingers. It’s lazy, it’s not creative, but it’s also fundamentally irrefutable. You can argue semantics or nuance however you want, but they won’t hear anything past the “six rounds”. You can also state your well laid out case for aardvark. Or bring it back to the one we all know. “Because I’m your mother.” Yes, yes, you are right, and you are most likely wrong, but what the hell am I going to say?
That’s Madrid. Because yesterday they were dumped by Man City with 6 rubbish in the first leg in Manchester. City led 1-0 within 90 seconds and 2-0 after 10 minutes. Carlo Ancelotti’s solution to not having his midfield anchor Casemiro due to injury is Eduardo Cama’s lack of energy (even if it’s a bit lacking in direction).vinga at the base to throw anything that resembles a barricade. That is to install Toni Kroos in the position of the deepest midfielder. Even as a child, Kroos had the mobility of a shipwreck. So City’s midfield ran wild, back and forth, and through Madrid. They can score any number. One gets the feeling that Ancelotti’s tactics never really went beyond, “Let’s start there, and play.” Meanwhile the City looks like Disco Demolition Night all over the field. The plan of Pep and the men, is ruthless, relentless and dynamic to open the game.
But Ancelotti, and Madrid, can almost always get away with whatever plans they have or don’t have, whatever they’re trying, because they can say, “We have Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema. ”
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This is not a great opportunity, it is certainly not made of patient or complicated construction, and it does not exploit weakness or execute a sustainable plan. It was a good opportunity that emerged from some harem scares in the midfield with the ball circling, and it was a cross. There’s still a lot of work to be done, and that’s on the weaker side of the Benzema, but that shouldn’t matter. If loopholes, Madrid have this card to play.
They continued to get kicked around the skull, and if someone gave Riyad Mahrez the map, they would be 3 or 4-1 down at halftime. It didn’t take long for City to find that third goal in the second half, and again, it looked like it was about to be set up for them to find an RPM Madrid couldn’t and head from distance.
But Madrid has Vinicius Jr.
We should pause here to include Guardiola’s reaction not to Vinicius’ goal, but to his dummy to start attacking City’s penalty area, because he clearly knows what. will come:
Okay, Fernandinho is not a right-back and is three days older than the country. And yes, Aymeric Laporte has, shall we say, an abstract path to defense that never comes within five meters of Vinicius. But all of that matters only because it is Vinicius Jr. who will turn this kind of opportunity and space into a goal every now and then.
Once again, Man City advanced to Madrid like a lion against an antelope, should have scored more, but once again took a two-goal lead thanks to Bernardo Silva’s thunderous strike. 4-2 generally won’t end the semi-final, but it will be quite pleasant. But this is Madrid, so they will get a call. And they have Benzema.
It is important to note that Benzema missed two penalties just days before the match against Osasuna. So of course he will pull the Panenka out, essentially pulling your seeds out and placing them on the table. And because it’s Benzema, it’s universal in size (as some have suggested, it’s the kind of confidence and swagger that one can only get when they’re dating Rihanna and playing fair). This is a Champions League semi-final and your team lost two and finished second all over the field, asshole. This is not correct.
Madrid should have lost to PSG. They should have lost to Chelsea. They should have been killed by Man City. And yet, they stood there and said, “Yes, but we have Benzema and Vinicius.” And there’s nothing you can say back. If you were to roll out this same squad in a Real Sociedad shirt and call them Real Sociedad, they would probably have made it through the group stage. But there’s just something about “Real Madrid,” and bad things happen. It will probably continue to happen, even if there’s no good reason why it should. It’s the most annoying argument in the world.
