In pictures, Man City and Real Madrid reach the quarter-finals of the "Champions", effortlessly
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Real Madrid and Manchester City reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League without any trouble after renewing their first-leg wins over Italian Atalanta and Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-1 and 2-0 respectively yesterday.
In the Spanish capital, Real Madrid renewed its victory over its Italian guest Atalanta 3-1 in the second leg of the Champions League final, after it won the first leg with a clean goal, and booked its seat to the quarter-finals.
For the Madrid club, French scorer Karim Benzema (34), captain Sergio Ramos (60 from a penalty kick) and Marco Asuncio (85) scored for the club.
And for the Colombian loser, Luis Muriel (83).
After two disappointing seasons at the continental level, French coach Zinedine Zidane led his team to the quarter-finals, after he had previously won, under his supervision, the title of the oldest European competition for 3 consecutive seasons (2016-2018).
Zizou did not succeed in skipping the final price of the European competition since his return to the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium in March 2019, where he lost against Ajax Amsterdam in that year, and then against Manchester City in 2020. Real finished a series of 4 matches during which he did not win. At home in the knock-out round of the European competition, where he drew once and suffered three defeats.
The Madrid club put an end to a series of 5 matches for Atalanta, during which it won outside its stadium, during which it scored 14 goals and kept its net 4 times.
Quartet dream continues
Manchester City kept the dream of winning the quartet during the current season by renewing its 2-0 victory over Monchengladbach, which was scored by Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (13) and German Ilkay Gundogan (18) to reach the quarter-finals.
City largely secured the Premier League title, reached the League Cup final and will play the England Cup quarter-finals against Everton next Saturday.
It is also the fourth time in a row that Manchester City reached the quarter-finals of the most important continental competition, but it failed to skip this role in the last three seasons. The exit was at the hands of Liverpool, Tottenham, the English and Lyon, respectively.
De Bruyne returned to the starting lineup, alongside the Algerian Riyad Mahrez, the German Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden, and the team played without a real spearhead, with the presence of Argentine Sergio Aguero and Brazilian Gabriel Jesوسs on the reserve players' seats before the first took part in the last quarter of the hour.
City coach Pep Guardiola praised his team’s performance, saying, "Yes, sometimes things seem easy. It was a good performance and we dominated within 90 minutes from the start," adding, "But this competition is full of traps and we were serious. After two great goals, things became easier but the way." What we played with was really good. Everyone was well positioned and passing the ball was great ... ".
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