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Real Madrid face Manchester City in the highly anticipated second leg of their Champions League semi-final tie, with Pep Guardiola's men having a 4-3 lead ...

Cancelo does well to win a corner for City but Real eventually manage to clear the danger. 90 minutes from kickoff: The first leg in Manchester was hugely entertaining and it is hoped that tonight's clash will also be of a very high standard. 26 mins: Toni Kroos tries his luck from a free-kick, with his effort deflecting off Mahrez as Real look to up the ante. GOAL - Real Madrid 0-1 Manchester City (Mahrez) Riyad Mahrez scores a superb goal to put City ahead on the night and they now lead 5-3 on aggregate. 1 hour from kickoff: Although City have a one-goal lead to predict, it is difficult to imagine Pep Guardiola setting his team up with an entirely defensive mindset. Pep Guardiola's side have looked assured in possession and have managed to cope well with the threat of Real so far but can they do the same in the second half? Riyad Mahrez is also involved from the outset, with Raheem Sterling named among the substitutes. The Real Madrid midfielder now requires treatment but is okay to continue. Full time in normal time: Real Madrid 2-1 Manchester City (5-5 on aggregate): Extra-time will now follow after an unbelievable comeback from Real. City seemed set for the final following Mahrez's goal but substitute Rodrygo scored two goals in as many minutes for Real late on. Will City be able to make it an all-English final again, with Liverpool's place in Paris already secured? 55 mins: Benzema looks to play in Vinicius Junior, but Laporte makes a vital interception. The first chance of extra-time falls to Benzema, whose shot is saved.

City has underachieved in the competition but is back in the semifinals and leads Real Madrid 4-3 after the first leg.

The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. Kevin De Bruyne scored an early goal and set up another against Madrid to continue his run of inspirational late-season displays.

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Caesars reported taking a $1,000 bet on Real Madrid to win the match in regulation just 15 seconds prior to Rodrygo's first goal. Rodrygo's opening goal, when he got to a Benzema pass ahead of Ederson, was Madrid's first effort on target on the night. The best is yet to come, the most important [thing] is yet to come, but we have to enjoy the moment. In sharp contrast to last week's breathless contest in Manchester, the second leg of the semifinal was largely a much more cautious affair. We had to defend well, and we did it. After coming off the bench, Rodrygo scored in the 90th and 91st minutes to level the aggregate score and send the Bernabeu crowd into bedlam and the semifinal to extra time. And Vinicius Jr. missed an even clearer opportunity in the opening moments of the second half when getting his finish all wrong after a rehearsed kickoff routine gave him a clear sight of goal from six yards. Indeed, City were inches from putting the result beyond doubt when substitute Jack Grealish beat Courtois only to see Ferland Mendy desperately clear the ball off his own goalline. Madrid looked like they would be made to pay for that profligacy. ... We're in the final, but the most difficult is yet to come. With City shaken, Benzema then won and scored a penalty in the first five minutes of extra time to give Madrid a lead they would not relinquish. But, as dramatic comebacks against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea have already shown in this season's competition, Madrid are never to be counted out.

Real Madrid battled back from the brink of elimination to overcome Manchester City and book its place in the Champions League final.

City knew the onus was on Real to try and level the tie and Pep Guardiola's side was content with allowing its opponent more possession that it did a week ago. Walker was patched up and rushed back in time for the second leg, as City knew he was its best chance at combating Vinicus' blistering pace. This current Real team may not be at the level of previous iterations, but heading to the Bernabeu with just a one-goal advantage remains a daunting task. Just a few minutes later, Benzema brought the crowd inside the Bernabeu to its feet for the first time. It's Nacho's use of the word "magic" that feels most accurate on Champions League nights. "A por la 14," read the writing on the back of Real's celebratory shirts. For the third knockout tie in a row, Real looked down and out. But Guardiola's side were only offered a moment's respite before the bombardment restarted and it took just three minutes of extra tie for Real to take the lead in this tie for the first time. For three successive rounds, Carlo Ancelotti's side has been on the verge of elimination. You get goosebumps thinking about experiencing nights like that because they're historic, they're magic." From a side that had looked so down and out literally seconds ago that much of the stadium had started to empty, Real was now looking the most likely to win this tie. The Bernabeu is special on nights like that ... you think about it and get goosebumps.

Real Madrid will face Liverpool in the Champions League final after a dramatic night at the Bernabeu during which Manchester City were just minutes from ...

They were lucky the tie even made it to extra time after Ederson was called on to make another save before the end of stoppage time. The dramatic brace also made history, with Rodrygo the first player in tournament history to score twice after the 90th minute of a knockout round game.) With Real Madrid needing two goals to force extra time, Rodrygo, on as a 68th-minute substitute, scored what looked like a consolation from Karim Benzema's cross in the 90th minute but less than 60 seconds later, headed in another to make it 2-1 on the night and 5-5 on aggregate. City were in control for the most of the night until Real Madrid's late fight-back, and could have extended their lead before Rodrygo's first goal if Jack Grealish (a second-half substitute) had taken one of two chances. This might in fact top them all. The Spanish side seemed set for a rather meek exit until some scarcely believable drama in stoppage time.

Manchester City's path to its first Champions League title runs through Real Madrid, which got two late goals from Rodrygo to force extra time and then a ...

That is the effect of the spell Real Madrid can cast: a vague sense of unease, a gnawing feeling in the pit of the stomach that these things only end one way. We got three against P.S.G., five against Chelsea and three against Manchester City. You’ve sometimes got to take a bit of a risk and we have got the quality to do that.” It has been a season of Champions League thrillers — especially for neutrals — and Liverpool’s comeback victory against Villarreal surely earned its place on that list of memorable moments. It was an evening, in that light, that showcased that City is now where it has spent a decade trying to go. Kevin De Bruyne, who has battled injuries this season and has taken a battering recently, was held out of Manchester City’s for its 4-0 win over Leeds in the Premier League over the weekend but should play his usual big role in the Champions League tonight. But the substitute Rodrygo scored once, and then scored again, to give his team, his city, a lifeline in the form of extra time. Pressed a second time, though, Guardiola put the idea to bed once and for all. He cut a pass back against the grain and into the center circle where it found Bernardo Silva in acres of space. Manchester City was winning the tie, and winning the game. 46′ We’re back underway and it takes Madrid all of six seconds to produce a change. Real Madrid, improbably and impossibly and a little unbelievably, has beaten Manchester City, 3-1 in extra time, to reach the Champions League final. Rodrygo scored twice in the space of 120 seconds, erasing the lead that Manchester City had so carefully and so cautiously established, taking the Champions League semifinal into extra time.

Man City look to keep Real's Karim Benzema from exploiting any lack of control.

Villarreal are not a team that deals well with the pressure of being behind, indeed in the 20 La Liga and Champions League matches in which they have been losing this season their record reads one win, six draws and 13 defeats. Trent Alexander-Arnold's rapid switches of play and balls down the line were a key feature of the Reds' first leg success, how much more successful might they be if he is not having to thread the needle between a full back and the nominal winger who is stationed a few feet ahead of him. In the smaller sample size of European matches it is 0.02 and they had not come up against a team like Liverpool before last week. It should also be noted that without Benrahma in the side all three of the corners Filip Kostic took for Frankfurt were only cleared as far as a different player in white. Indeed, one might argue that in dragging Klopp's side into such a fiddly match for an hour Villarreal achieved more than should be reasonably expected from a team of their means. Moyes' side have now conceded 10 such goals in the Premier League this season, firmly in the middle of the pack, with four of them coming since the start of April. Not so coincidentally this has coincided with the period where the Hammers have been forced to chop and change their back line on the fly thanks to a myriad of injuries. Gabriel Martinelli has time to take a touch, get the ball out from under his feet and clip a delivery to the back post for Gabriel to head in. Nine of their Premier League assists have come from dead balls, the most in the top flight along with Manchester City. They have four in the Europa League. No other team has scored more than two. Onto the Europa League, where last week's suggestion that English clubs are about to sweep the board in every competition is looking more than a bit dicey. Last Tuesday the visitors had no answer for City's sustained possession play but put Fernandinho in front of Vinicius Junior and they could find a devastating moment. Every one of Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and even a victorious City have been baffled at how the score looks quite how it does when the final whistle blows. In the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League (catch all the action on CBS and Paramount+) a place in a major final is just 90 minutes away.

Karim Benzema, the hero of Madrid's previous comebacks this season, converted a penalty kick in extra time for the decisive goal that allowed Madrid to advance ...

It was his 10th goal in the knockout stage alone, tying Cristiano Ronaldo’s record in a single season. Madrid looked defeated near the end of regulation before Rodrygo scored his goals two minutes apart. “I cannot say we are used to living this kind of life, but what happened tonight happened against Chelsea and also against Paris,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. Benzema had scored hat tricks when Madrid rallied against both PSG and Chelsea. Madrid came back against PSG after losing the first leg in Paris and conceding early in the second leg at the Bernabéu. Against Chelsea, Madrid won the first match 3-1 but was down 3-0 in the second leg before rallying in extra time, when Benzema again scored the deciding goal. “I didn’t think we could do it again because we were struggling,” Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said. MADRID (AP) — The “Si se puede!

All but beaten in its Champions League semifinal, Madrid scored once, then twice, then a third time to snatch a victory and add to its legend.

It is something that happens, something that happens to Real Madrid, and to whoever has the misfortune to be standing in its way. There can be no noise, no hope, no spark and no time, and yet Real Madrid can still conjure it from the air, from the sky, from something deep within. It did not have any great desire to exist in a dimension in which Manchester City was in the Champions League final and it was not. It had only found a little composure after Riyad Mahrez had scored, when the prospect of a place in the final against Liverpool at the end of May was so tantalizingly close. It is hard to tell whether it is something about the Bernabéu that does it, or whether it is the effect of feeling like you are living in a self-fulfilling prophecy, but this place has an unrivaled ability to unsettle even the greatest players, the smoothest teams. Manchester City was now living in Real Madrid’s world, and the ending in Real Madrid’s world is always the same. In the space of five minutes, with a break and a breather in between, Manchester City’s understanding of how things worked had been shattered. It happened to P.S.G., too, when Gianluigi Donnarumma stumbled on the ball and Neymar and Lionel Messi disappeared from view. Here, though, it was something else, something more akin to a Big Bang. Real Madrid did not particularly like the turn the universe was taking. This time, he raced off, sprinting to the edge of the field, careering as close to the stands as he could. With 89 minutes and 30 seconds played, Rodrygo reacted quickest to Karim Benzema’s knockdown and stabbed a shot past Éderson. He gobbled the ball from the back of the net, and sprinted straight back to the halfway line. But there comes a point when reality has to intrude, when the chaos has to give way to order.

The Spaniard, in his sixth season with the club, suffered yet another dose of European disaster as City was stunned by a late Real Madrid comeback in the decisive second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu.

It's normal, it's the semifinal, the players they feel the pressure, they want to do it. "It's not like you say in the last 10 minutes they attack and attack and you suffer. They put a lot of players in the box and they score two goals." We found our tempo, the players were comfortable on the pitch. "We were close but football is unpredictable," Guardiola said to BT Sport after the loss. "They scored goals in the last minutes.