Every competition comes with a winner throughout the stages till the very end and today’s encounter between Manchester City and Real Madrid for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League (CL) semifinals was more like the finals, a cluster of goals.
Heed onto Chelsea experience at home ground, the ‘Cityzens’ make a good cause of their scoring opportunities loaded four goals into the net of the ‘Los Blancos’, conceding three during the cause, a close gesture to the return leg in Spain and the finals.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at three things we learned from Manchester City 4-3 Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium.
1. Utilized scoring opportunities
In stages like this, scoring opportunities are golden, and wasting it might show an exit door. In today’s event, both parties involved made their chances a priority making good deals out of it. With recorded shots on target of 6 – Manchester City had four goals, likewise, Real Madrid had three goals of 5-shots on target. A close margin.
2. Weak defense and goalkeeping
In such a further stage, defending and goalkeeping are two of the most important positions to look out for, however, both sides failed to protect, and had an open game leading to goals galore. It was a lost cause and both sides did benefit.
3. Goalscorers
There weren’t unusual scorers on the score sheet today, we can establish the fact that all players on board did have much influence this season – talk of brace hero Karim Benzema, he leads the goal charts in La Liga and the Champions League respectively, teammate Vinicius Junior contributing combine goals of 17 in both La Liga and the CL so far.
Gabriel Jesus, Phil Foden, and Bernardo Silva with combined goals of 11 in both the Premier League and CL, and Kevin De Bruyne with the most goals scored of 13.
Manchester City now heads to Santiago Bernabeu for the return leg with its chest out after getting the lead on home soil.
What are your expectations ahead of the return leg as a fan seeing this presented results in the first round of the competition?.
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