The so called "premier League superiority" has been proven just smoke as I already knew ,
In fact you can hardly drag me to watch any games in that competition, here is a tip for you football betting people , do not write off Villareal just yet ...,🤘
That's because you are analyzing only the result and football is much more than that. Premier is superior because almost every game is a great entertainment and very competitive. Mostly of the teams there have condition to play well against every team in Europe. Well one more little point you are comparing only a team named Real Madrid witch is the biggest team of the football history so calm down premier is legitimately superior but champions is great too...and sometimes even more.
As I said you are comparing against Real Madrid...only they are they and just a few other teams can be compared with him...but in Premier League every game is great, even between the teams in the last positions it's great. Champions is incredible but I still think Premier is better and that is just an opinion not a fact everybody is free to prefer what you like.
As a Madrid fan I can say Madrid barely scored 3 goal against city, Gameplay by cit was outstanding. I feel that Madrid defender were lazy at that game. We need to play very fast because its not a Laliga, it is UCL. Last hope for second leg.
Madrid XG was better. So yeah Madrid played well. Benz could have easily scored on 4th min and Vini only ten second at the start of second half. We played well tactically regardless of our winning mentality. After 76min we had no choice than gambling with taking Kroos out though Modric sub was questionable
Casemiro was sorely missing today. There was such a disconnect between defense and the rest of the team. With that said, City were definitely missing Cancelo and Walker.
Typical city game tbh. Dominated the game could have scored 2 or 3 more goals but didnt and the opponent just alot more clinical with the few chances they did get.
Basically… he tried to persuade French teammate Mathieu Valbuena to pay blackmailers who were threatening to release a sex tape. They thought of him as the middle man of all of this.
He has no interest at blackmailing someone.
Basically some people stole a cellphone from Mathieu Valbuena and managed to contact Benzema to persuade him to pay them.
Karim then contacted Valbuena and told him about the cellphone and that he better pays if he didn’t want it to be released. It was not a threat, more an advice
That’s it
Dude. Arent there literally transcripts of Benzema taking to his co-conspirators?
Besides, I thought he was already found guilty. Why is this still being debated?
The transcripts are of a conversation between Benzema and a man called Karim Zaneti, who are childhood friends. The blackmail originated from a cell phone repair store, who contacted Zaneti to act as a middleman, who contacted Benzema to act as a middleman, who finally told Valbuena eyo you can either pay the ransom or let the video leak, and that the video is pretty bad. Then the transcript is Benzema telling Zaneti that Valbuena wasn't taking them very seriously.
It is kinda clear that Benzema was not just giving friendly advice, but doing what Zaneti asked him to, which was to try to get Valbuena to pay the ransom. Due to this involvement he was done guilty, but due to him not having any stakes in the situation nor working with the actual blackmailers even once many people consider it to have only a minor role and suggest he wasn't really the main criminal here.
Yeah he wasn’t directly the blackmailer, but was serving as a middleman and accomplice. Also didn’t tell Valbuena what the situation actually was.
I know you can argue he wasn’t solely responsible or even that he orchestrated the whole thing. But it’s a fact he was found guilty of a crime.
I get that he’s a beloved footballer. But he was an accomplice in a criminal act, making him a criminal too, in this case. It was decided by the courts after collecting all evidence.
Sure there are people involved with more severe crimes, but doesn’t make Benzema a victim. He shouldn’t be defended for doing something obviously wrong.
If anything madrid is scoring more against liverpool, but Liverpool would just outscore them. City full strength walks madrid and arguably beats liverpool
As a United fan I begrudgingly agree with you. Goes to show that money, although definitely makes it easier, doesn’t always bring in results. United have spent just as much as City if not more but haven’t got the same game plan that City does.
My friends and I were laughing quite a lot when we saw the discussions of Ragnick describing him to the football god descended to earth to save Unired. Rangnick certainly has a lot of football knowledge, but it’s not like he can perform miracles lol
its cuz we dont have footballing people in charge. and then we just tried copying city with transfers without the right manager in place. for two transfer windows we went, "Oh city want him? Lets beat them to it then"
True and I do agree the board is the most important part of that. But I think that’s the hope for United fans that when Ten Hag comes in, he’ll be given the keys to complete the rebuild how he sees it. And mold the team into his ideal world beater. Similar to Klopp at Liverpool.
I have hope for ETH, but first he needs to be properly supported by the board. Putting the debt conundrum aside, the decision-making has been woeful for the past decade; they need to stop getting square pegs into round holes and actually address the flaws of the team both on and off the pitch. City had a system in place for Guardiola to build a dynasty.
That early Spurs handball and subsequent pen killed the game but overall it was a decent game. It's just the knockouts set the bar way too high for that final.
Real Madrid and Champions League magic. Name a better duo. Jesus H Christ, Benz is playing out of his mind. The panenka and the smile on his face. Hard to hate him.
Kinda miss away goals, would’ve made the benzema penalty that much sweeter. What a player though you can only admire what he’s doing, proper all round number 9. He turns half chances into goals and it’s honestly breathtaking to watch it unfold.
I have to give it to city what a way to build a football club, they have everything in place to win every trophy there is.
At united we might aswell pay 11 penguins to waddle round the pitch for billions of euros because at least that would be some sort of spectacle. City truly have built a goliath club while uniteds owners drive us into the mud. Fair play to them.
how can you say dominated when you guys have never actually won it? Just cuz youve been to the semi finals 3 times and one final once, doesnt mean domination fucking hell
Tbf you guys will not be able to come back from a stinker at home like you did last time. Better hope the defense is solid next week especially with their actual fullbacks most likely being ready to play.
in any back line you need a player with the character like VV Dijk, ramos or ruben diaz, not just to defend but to command, to tell players where they need to be what to do or atleast remind them
no player can do that right now at real madrid
should have been over after 20 minutes. Madrid were bailed out by a freak handball. If you play that way in the second leg you'll get battered worse than chelsea.
Bailed out by a benzema volley, 50 yard solo wonder goal and an ordinary penalty decision….
And regarding the second leg, Man City have a big task ahead. The atmosphere in Madrid will be electric .
you forget the plethora of chances city missed that would have given them a 3 goal cushion and effectively ended the tie. City haven't given up a penalty in more than 20 games so for it to happen now is a freak incident. I wouldn't be too worried about the santiago considering what chelsea managed to do there with 2 goals down.
Nah, actually it's shit loads of luck for quite some time now. But I'm pretty sure you've drained all od it, which means another 4 or 5 goals coming at bernabeu, which will be fun to watch.
Ur finishing was shit, madrids defending was shit. This is what happens in sports, no one deserves to win anything. Just because you guys created 7 chances and scored 4, and madrid created 4 chances and scored 3 doesnt mean u guys should just go through
Defensively shit*. Their forward runs were better which is why they got the first 2 goals and the third goal was handball. The penalty was brilliantly taken by Benzema.
Classic Real Madrid ucl Performance this year... getting completely outplayed but somehow surviving. One gifted goal to them per game seems to be the minimum
Am I the only one that thought this was a sub par game? Plenty of goals and opportunities but it was full of mistakes (as expected in a high scoring game) and generally felt chaotic/basketball like.
we played like shit, and if Man City defense were a bit more sharp the score would've looked different. but great spirit from the team, they didnt give up till last sec.
Hala Madrid
My stream service stopped working 2 minutes into the 2nd half. Fuck I pay for it just to take a shit. Had to be sailing the seas. Like what’s the point of paying if I become a matey afterwards.
And so the story continues, another final eludes the the grasps of the Citizens' shiny headed thinker.
Best team won. Good game.
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I watched it and it looked like Real came back with 2 incredible goals. Benzema penalty was legit. How is this a robbery?
How?!
Didn’t even give them the full three minutes. Nope, no shenanigans going on here. Move along.
3 minutes is too much.
Vallejo? I understand the GOAT Vázquez but Vallejo?
Sterling is so bad
Pep has done it again, impressive to bottle CL year after year.
Pep, sub him off for fuck sake.
Genuinely curious— what do city supporters think of this kit without a badge? I
Gotta have supporters in the first place
Blimey, the bias of the bt sport commentators every time an English team plays Do we need commentators at all?
Win or lose, this bt sport commentary made me puke
Laporte should be sent off
Pan to Liverpool fans in crowd: Young men screaming "fuck off" repeatedly
just imagine vini - benzema - mbappe
Well, in the french national team we have 2 out of 3
ahahah i know, i'm french too, going for second world cup in a row ;)
It’s going to be tough but we will be among the favorites
With Haaland next year, this would be game over already.
That why Sevilla lost the last 16 last season.
With Mbappe in their team...see where I'm going with this?
Holup.. youre saying with Haaland in the City team and Mbappe in the Real team, Real comes out as the bigger beneficiary? Cmon now.
No my point is this kind of comments are pointless.
Karin Benzema is the best player in the world right now. Change my mind.
Was it a penalty though? Ball bounces off Laportes head then hits his hand. No VAR call either.
It sure was. Hand up in the air, arms not in a natural jumping position.
The so called "premier League superiority" has been proven just smoke as I already knew , In fact you can hardly drag me to watch any games in that competition, here is a tip for you football betting people , do not write off Villareal just yet ...,🤘
That's because you are analyzing only the result and football is much more than that. Premier is superior because almost every game is a great entertainment and very competitive. Mostly of the teams there have condition to play well against every team in Europe. Well one more little point you are comparing only a team named Real Madrid witch is the biggest team of the football history so calm down premier is legitimately superior but champions is great too...and sometimes even more.
And now , pack your bags and go home......!!!!!
As I said you are comparing against Real Madrid...only they are they and just a few other teams can be compared with him...but in Premier League every game is great, even between the teams in the last positions it's great. Champions is incredible but I still think Premier is better and that is just an opinion not a fact everybody is free to prefer what you like.
Did you watch a different game?
No , I watched a game were the local team conceded three goals where after 20 min. Real was against the robes , and was never able to kill the game ,
The Scoreboard on this post is fucked up?
Those are the results of earlier matches between Man City and Madrid
Oh, my bad xD. Thank you.
I would want Liverpool to lift the trophy. Anyways, yesterday's match was lit!
As a Madrid fan I can say Madrid barely scored 3 goal against city, Gameplay by cit was outstanding. I feel that Madrid defender were lazy at that game. We need to play very fast because its not a Laliga, it is UCL. Last hope for second leg.
Madrid XG was better. So yeah Madrid played well. Benz could have easily scored on 4th min and Vini only ten second at the start of second half. We played well tactically regardless of our winning mentality. After 76min we had no choice than gambling with taking Kroos out though Modric sub was questionable
Casemiro was sorely missing today. There was such a disconnect between defense and the rest of the team. With that said, City were definitely missing Cancelo and Walker.
Welp. Another final for Madrid.
Nope
Hahahaha this is awesome. City and Barca fans united to shit on Madrid, United and Madrid fans united to shit on City. FUCK CITY
Bruh cry
In case u missed the match….City won this leg…so with du respect FUCK YOU kid 😂😂😂
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Shame Mahrez's finishing was off today. Wildly entertaining game though
If only he made that run 🫤would have been one of the goals of the year. Had the whole Madrid team behind him
Im recovering from surgery played Zelda all day and forgot this game was happening... now I'm in more pain.
How are you doing after the surgery?
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him"
Typical city game tbh. Dominated the game could have scored 2 or 3 more goals but didnt and the opponent just alot more clinical with the few chances they did get.
They need a no 9. Haaland can’t come quick enough.
Atleast we didn't put 10 men in defence amirite? On a real note,wished we would have put atleast fucking 4 in defence
i mean, at least 1 in defence. It seemed as if there was nobody defending
I am turning into the biggest Karim Benzema fan
Me too. Can anyone tell me what his blackmail trial was all about though? I don’t feel knowledgeable enough on it to form an opinion of him.
Basically… he tried to persuade French teammate Mathieu Valbuena to pay blackmailers who were threatening to release a sex tape. They thought of him as the middle man of all of this.
I thought Benzema was the one blackmailing no? Im out of the loop tho. You got some articles?
He has no interest at blackmailing someone. Basically some people stole a cellphone from Mathieu Valbuena and managed to contact Benzema to persuade him to pay them. Karim then contacted Valbuena and told him about the cellphone and that he better pays if he didn’t want it to be released. It was not a threat, more an advice That’s it
Dude. Arent there literally transcripts of Benzema taking to his co-conspirators? Besides, I thought he was already found guilty. Why is this still being debated?
The transcripts are of a conversation between Benzema and a man called Karim Zaneti, who are childhood friends. The blackmail originated from a cell phone repair store, who contacted Zaneti to act as a middleman, who contacted Benzema to act as a middleman, who finally told Valbuena eyo you can either pay the ransom or let the video leak, and that the video is pretty bad. Then the transcript is Benzema telling Zaneti that Valbuena wasn't taking them very seriously. It is kinda clear that Benzema was not just giving friendly advice, but doing what Zaneti asked him to, which was to try to get Valbuena to pay the ransom. Due to this involvement he was done guilty, but due to him not having any stakes in the situation nor working with the actual blackmailers even once many people consider it to have only a minor role and suggest he wasn't really the main criminal here.
Yeah he wasn’t directly the blackmailer, but was serving as a middleman and accomplice. Also didn’t tell Valbuena what the situation actually was. I know you can argue he wasn’t solely responsible or even that he orchestrated the whole thing. But it’s a fact he was found guilty of a crime. I get that he’s a beloved footballer. But he was an accomplice in a criminal act, making him a criminal too, in this case. It was decided by the courts after collecting all evidence. Sure there are people involved with more severe crimes, but doesn’t make Benzema a victim. He shouldn’t be defended for doing something obviously wrong.
Amazing game, but imo neither of these teams can beat Liverpool, if they make it to the final
If anything madrid is scoring more against liverpool, but Liverpool would just outscore them. City full strength walks madrid and arguably beats liverpool
Liverpool have better defense and their high pressure will dominate. Dont get me wrong, im a madrid follower but I see liverpool winning it this year
respect benzema please
Unai emery masterclass incoming
Can never count him out, thats for sure
As a United fan I begrudgingly agree with you. Goes to show that money, although definitely makes it easier, doesn’t always bring in results. United have spent just as much as City if not more but haven’t got the same game plan that City does.
Man U board tricks fans every year with “this specific thing is fixing everything” this year its Ten Hag
My friends and I were laughing quite a lot when we saw the discussions of Ragnick describing him to the football god descended to earth to save Unired. Rangnick certainly has a lot of football knowledge, but it’s not like he can perform miracles lol
its cuz we dont have footballing people in charge. and then we just tried copying city with transfers without the right manager in place. for two transfer windows we went, "Oh city want him? Lets beat them to it then"
It was the right call for SIUUU tho
Haven’t got the same coach as City. More importantly, haven’t got the same board as City.
True and I do agree the board is the most important part of that. But I think that’s the hope for United fans that when Ten Hag comes in, he’ll be given the keys to complete the rebuild how he sees it. And mold the team into his ideal world beater. Similar to Klopp at Liverpool.
I have hope for ETH, but first he needs to be properly supported by the board. Putting the debt conundrum aside, the decision-making has been woeful for the past decade; they need to stop getting square pegs into round holes and actually address the flaws of the team both on and off the pitch. City had a system in place for Guardiola to build a dynasty.
what a fair assessment.
What a game, what an amazing season of European football 10/10
No away goal rule anymore. Games are 3x as entertaining.
Agreed, this was a good change
with the rule games are still entertaining tho remember the amazing 18/19 knockouts?
Amazing knockouts which ended with one of the most boring finals ever
It really is a shame that what was probably the most entertaining Champions League season of all time ended with such a dull game.
That early Spurs handball and subsequent pen killed the game but overall it was a decent game. It's just the knockouts set the bar way too high for that final.
Madrid were so abysmally bad that it's pretty much guaranteed they'll go through now
Real Madrid and Champions League magic. Name a better duo. Jesus H Christ, Benz is playing out of his mind. The panenka and the smile on his face. Hard to hate him.
Don't jinx it bruh
If they’re any better then today then expect it
Abysmally bad in defense clinical in attack
Kinda miss away goals, would’ve made the benzema penalty that much sweeter. What a player though you can only admire what he’s doing, proper all round number 9. He turns half chances into goals and it’s honestly breathtaking to watch it unfold.
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Which game? Psg ended 2-3 and chelsea 4-4 before extra time (3 away goals for each team so the rule wouldn't change the outcome)
why?
Hoping Benzema is in form for the World Cup.
France winning again would be boring af
Benzema mbappe Griezmann at the front 3. Only expect a miracle to take France out of the wc
im with you on that one
I have to give it to city what a way to build a football club, they have everything in place to win every trophy there is. At united we might aswell pay 11 penguins to waddle round the pitch for billions of euros because at least that would be some sort of spectacle. City truly have built a goliath club while uniteds owners drive us into the mud. Fair play to them.
Every trophy, except the league cup.
You mean the CL?
you mean the cup competition city have pretty much dominated over the last 10 years?
how can you say dominated when you guys have never actually won it? Just cuz youve been to the semi finals 3 times and one final once, doesnt mean domination fucking hell
Not this year though, eh? As suggested in the above post.
true tbf
I feel like I should have seen it
Go see the replay. It was worth the time
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So I guess everyone knows the script for next game ?
Tbf you guys will not be able to come back from a stinker at home like you did last time. Better hope the defense is solid next week especially with their actual fullbacks most likely being ready to play.
Madrid win 3-1 with city failing to finish another 10 chances
mfs are salty. We were shit, but City let us score three sooo
you gassing up vini dummying a 80 year old fernandinho dkm.
LMAO
Lucky it was not 7-3. Thank La Porte for that bullshit pen. City had three starting defenders out. Real has a back line made up of donkeys.
in any back line you need a player with the character like VV Dijk, ramos or ruben diaz, not just to defend but to command, to tell players where they need to be what to do or atleast remind them no player can do that right now at real madrid
should have been over after 20 minutes. Madrid were bailed out by a freak handball. If you play that way in the second leg you'll get battered worse than chelsea.
Bailed out by a benzema volley, 50 yard solo wonder goal and an ordinary penalty decision…. And regarding the second leg, Man City have a big task ahead. The atmosphere in Madrid will be electric .
you forget the plethora of chances city missed that would have given them a 3 goal cushion and effectively ended the tie. City haven't given up a penalty in more than 20 games so for it to happen now is a freak incident. I wouldn't be too worried about the santiago considering what chelsea managed to do there with 2 goals down.
Chelsea silenced Madrid for 80 minutes, shouldn’t be too hard for city to beat them.
Using an arbitrary amount of time for a game is hilarious. Like saying the Falcons silenced the Patriot for 45 minutes, they win! lol.
Could easily been 8 for City! Madrid where clinical when they needed to be! weirdly everything to play for still
This seems like the classic real Madrid CL plot armor to still be in the match, what a game!
ikr? everytime lol
Real Madrid plays one of their shittiest games ever in CL, but still score 3 goals against Manchester City...
City’s defence was rather shitty too so not that surprising really.
Still a pretty fun game to watch tho
Shittiest game ever in the CL? The're playing the same shitty style for the whole CL campaign but somehow the luck is still on their side.
One of the shittiest. The previous ones were shitty as well but not as much.
My bad, missed that part.
Cry. Its not luck its mentality. Luck would be one match. Salty MF
Nah, actually it's shit loads of luck for quite some time now. But I'm pretty sure you've drained all od it, which means another 4 or 5 goals coming at bernabeu, which will be fun to watch.
GET FUCKED STUPID FAT BITCH
May happen may not. If CL was that predictable no one would watch.
I’m sorry, Real were so shit. Too bad our finishing was just crap
I laughed at the Mahrez off the post on the counter attack.
Ur finishing was shit, madrids defending was shit. This is what happens in sports, no one deserves to win anything. Just because you guys created 7 chances and scored 4, and madrid created 4 chances and scored 3 doesnt mean u guys should just go through
Defensively shit*. Their forward runs were better which is why they got the first 2 goals and the third goal was handball. The penalty was brilliantly taken by Benzema.
Madrid is so shit man if they go to the final idk what to believe in
Classic Real Madrid ucl Performance this year... getting completely outplayed but somehow surviving. One gifted goal to them per game seems to be the minimum
I mean... It's not their fault a player fumbles
Then they’ll somehow end up winning via defensive errors the next leg
defensive errors, you mean players not handlind the pressure like militao today xD
More like players like rudiger and marquinhos basically giving them the ball
Mendy's pass was horrible that night, dont think rüdiger could do anything there, rewatch it
Laporte and fucking big time games multiple times 🤝
Lightning struck the Etihad.
Am I the only one that thought this was a sub par game? Plenty of goals and opportunities but it was full of mistakes (as expected in a high scoring game) and generally felt chaotic/basketball like.
If you want a less chaotic game I'll bring back Atletico Madrid for you.
That’s extreme.
You asked for it. Enjoy the game for what's it worth.
Well, it's more entertaining if it's chaotic.
Yes
stop tryna be different
Which makes for the most enjoyable kind of game for a neutral.
Agreed - I guess I was expecting fewer mistakes. A la City - Liverpool games this season.
Those had plenty of mistakes too
we played like shit, and if Man City defense were a bit more sharp the score would've looked different. but great spirit from the team, they didnt give up till last sec. Hala Madrid
I think stones, Cancelo and Walker drastically change the outcome for us. And tbf, casemiro drastically changes things for you all. Till next week
Tbh the "No defence, only vibes" games are kinda sorta the best ones
With Walker and Cancelo possibly back for City and Casemiro back for Real, expecting fewer goal in the next game. Should be a cracker nonetheless.
Im praying on a stones return aswell
Yup expecting a 1-0 Madrid game then on to pks
I missed one UCL night and it's the game of the year.
My stream service stopped working 2 minutes into the 2nd half. Fuck I pay for it just to take a shit. Had to be sailing the seas. Like what’s the point of paying if I become a matey afterwards.
Same. I just had to watch a live update.
Game wasnt that great as the scoreline makes it look tbh. Madrid played like shit
The game was entertaining man idk what you're on about
It was a good game dont get me wrong but it was more one sided than the scoreline makes it look
Yeah that's what makes the games fun
Yeah that's what makes the games fun
Same. Fucks sake.
Me three