![]() This Real dynasty of five Champions League titles in the previous nine editions do it differently. ![]() The great Guardiola teams – especially the great Barcelona team – planed away at opposition with the dizzying fluency of their passing, and the suffocating nature of their possession. Real can do that, to even the City of 2023. So much about the spell that Real cast is about the unexpected shifts they force in a game's genesis – and that lesson was hard learned by Guardiola's players last season.Ĭity might never be able to say how they went from being so sure of their bearings, with 70 per cent of the possession, to all that reassurance being swept away with a flick from Luka Modric and a hit from Vinicius. Although what that might represent is hard to tell. This epic Champions League semi-final goes to its second leg with a sense that Manchester City, the great force of English football, have carved an advantage for themselves. ![]() One moment just surviving and then suddenly running the show. ![]() There is a Real Madrid for every moment of the big games: from cornered and snarling, to whirling all around you, passing through and running in behind, and next week in their own stadium Pep Guardiola's players must be prepared to play all versions.Ĭarlo Ancelotti's team performed on each of their settings in the first leg. ![]()
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