Champions League The now City player was happy with the whites’ victory
Jack Grealish had in his boots the qualification of Manchester City to the final of the Champions League. The Englishman came out onto the pitch in the minute 78 replacing Gabriel Jesus. With the score at 0-1, Mahrez had scored shortly before, Guardiola’s men had the match where they wanted.
Grealish was able to extend the advantage of the ‘citizen’, put the 0-2 or 0-3, with two very clear chances. But I did not succeed and Manchester City ended up paying for it. The first Mendy took it out under sticks and in the other Courtois played just the right thing. They were so clear that Steve McManaman, a former Real Madrid player, the team with which he won the Champions League, qualified these occasions as “wonderful”.
To make matters worse for the English player, after the match it was viral a tweet I wrote some time agospecifically in the month of April 2014. Just read a “Hala Madrid” accompanied by a series of emojis of the Spanish flag.
At that time, eight years ago, Grealish was an 18 year oldone of the great promises of the Aston Villaa football fan who was watching a Champions League semi-final match. It was a match between Bayern Munich, coach for Guardiola, who today is his coach, against Real Madrid. The Whites won with a goal from Benzema… and Grealish wrote that “Hala Madrid”, a message that, over time, he would erase.
Without a doubt, fate is often cruel at times and this time he has had to live it in own flesh with Guardiola as his coach. At that time, in 2014, Grealish showed his preference for the white team against Guardiola. This time he was fighting the same shirt of the Spanish coachbut luck was not on his side and he suffered from the famous Bernab stage fright.