Real Madrid - Manchester City 3: 1: Rodrygo and Benzema lead real in semi -final

Real Madrid already looks like the safe loser against Manchester City - and yet moves into the final of the Champions League.

• Real Madrid: Rodrygo's later double strike forced extension
• Real Madrid - Manchester City: The constellations

According to Madrid's miracle, Karim Benzema danced over the lawn with Toni Kroos, on the other hand, Pep Guardiola looked at the sky: On one evening for the history books, Reals mentality monsters reached the final of the Champions League. The royal City defeated Manchester 3: 1 (2: 1, 0: 0) after extra time and followed Liverpool FC despite the 3: 4 defeat a week earlier.

"You can't believe it, but it doesn't surprise. We have shown that we are capable of. What the team did is mentally ill!" Said David Alaba at dazn. "Today there's a beer!" Midfield star Toni Kroos added: "We were out 26 times during the knockout phase and fought ourselves back 26 times."

After City's lead by Riyad Mahre (73.), real opportunities had dropped to zero, but Rodrygo (90./90.+1), which had substituted for Toni Kroos, saved the Carlo Ancelotti team in front of 61,416 viewers with a late double pack. There Benzema (95th) shot the new Spanish champion by penalty to Paris, for the first time since 2018 the 13-time winner of the Henkelpott is back in the final.

World champion Kroos can win the premier class for the fifth time in his career on May 28th. City star coach Guardiola, on the other hand, has to wait for his first Champions League victory at City in his sixth year.

Even before the kick-off, the air burned around the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu soccer temple, the Madrilen team bus had to fight through a sea of fans and Bengal Fires towards Arena. In the stadium, the real fans then called for the teams to "another magical night of kings of Europe."

In contrast to the seven-goal spectacle in Manchester, the encounter began and hectic. City's Aymeric Laporte was lucky when his grip on the face of Luka Modric was only punished with yellow. Reals mentality monsters then slowly got the game under control and did not let Manchester's passport roll roll at all. The Benzema (5th/12th) twice in the first leg awarded the first chances.

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Real Madrid: Rodrygo's later double strike forced extension

City, which started again without international Ilkay Gündogan, only broke out from the clasp. Guardiola gestured dissatisfied on the edge of the field, because the royal stayed on the trigger. The return of Casemiro on the side of Kroos and Luka Modric gave the Spaniards stability in the center.

In the 68th minute, Kroos had to give way to strengthen Madrid's offensive, Gündogan came on the opposite side. The German played an opening pass on Bernardo Silva, who served Mahrez - and the Algerian hit the short corner. When the 90th minute ran, Real still needed two goals - and Rodrygo actually delivered.

Rodrygo was also involved in the third goal in the extension: after his pass on benzema, the Frenchman was fouled in the penalty area, Benzema converted the due penalty. For the veteran, it was the tenth goal in the knockout phase, so he set the record of Cristiano Ronaldo from the 2016/17 season.

The two finalists Real and Liverpool only met in the quarter -finals last season, at that time Real (0: 0/3: 1) prevailed against the team of coach Jürgen Klopp. The 2018 final also won Real against the Reds.

Real Madrid - Manchester City: The constellations

Madrid : Courtois - Carvajal, Eder Militao (115th Vallejo), Nacho, Mendy - Casemiro (75. Asensio) - Kroos (68. Rodrygo), Modric (75. Camavinga) - Valverde, Benzema (104. CeBallos ), Vinicius Junior (115th Lucas Vazquez). - Trainer: Ancelotti

Manchester : Ederson - Walker (72nd Zinchenko), Ruben, Laporte, Joao Cancelo - Rodri (99th Sterling) - Bernardo Silva, de Bruyne (72nd Gündogan) - Mahrez (85. Fernandinho), Jesus (78. Geralish), Foden. - Trainer: Guardiola

Referee : Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Tore : 0: 1 Mahrez (73.), 1: 1 Rodrygo (90.), 2: 1 Rodrygo (90.+1), 3: 1 benzema (95., penalty))

Best players : Courtois, Rodrygo, Benzema - Ederson, Mahrez

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Yellow cards : Modric, Carvajal (3), Eder Militao (4), Valverde (2) - Laporte (2), Sterling, Zinchenko (2)