2023-05-09 03:01:00
Real Madrid, top winner of the Champions League, will receive this Tuesday from 4:00 p.m. (Fox Sports y Star+) to Manchester City in the estadio Santiago Bernabeu, in a semi tinted “early end”.
The rematch will be next Wednesday the 17th at the stadium Etihad in England and the winner will get a ticket to the only final that in this edition will be in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 10. The other semifinal will be played on Wednesday and will be nothing less than in the “Derby della Madonnina” between Milan and Inter.
Real Madrid, new champion of the Copa del Reyhas been among the top four in Europe in ten of the last editions and confirmed its status as the dominant team in the competition with 14 titles.
Manchester City, with Julián Álvarez, is considered one of the best teams today and for the third consecutive year he will play a Champions League semifinal, His principal object since it was bought by Arab capital in 2008.
The team led by Josep “Pep” Guardiola was close in The edition 2021but lost 1-0 in the final against Chelsea.
The difference that can be made with that team, which still included Sergio “Kun” Agüero, is that the “citizens” have a relentless goalscorer like the Norwegian Erling Haaland. The 22-year-old striker He scored two goals in the quarterfinals against Bayern Munich and already has twelve in the tournament.
Haaland has already surpassed a historical record in the Premier League with 35 goals in 32 games, and in Europe he is aiming for the 17 registered by the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in 2014.
In the other side will be Karim Benzema’s experience, surrounded by youth and the mischief of the Brazilians Vinicius and Rodrygo. Although he is not in his physical prime, French was key in the series of round of 16 against Liverpool with three goals.
He another interesting crossover will be between the coachesgiven that so much the veteran Carlo Ancelotti and Guardiola know what it is to conquer the Orejona.
The Italian has already knocked out the Catalan in two semifinals. In 2014 with Real Madrid they eliminated Bayern Munich with a resounding 5-0 aggregate, and in 2022 they reversed a 4-3 first-leg defeat in Manchester with a 3-1 defeat at the Bernabéu.
The exDT of Barcelonainstead, he won four games in a row when Ancelotti was in charge of Everton.
Meanwhile, the Cordovan Alvarez will seek to add minutes in a transcendental game after having started in the last three Premier League games.
The world champion is was left as the only Argentine representative after the transfer of Máximo Perrone to play the Sub 20 World Cup with the selected directed by Javier Mascherano.
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