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Two billion euros

later,

Manchester City

has finally reached the penultimate seat towards

El Dorado

that justifies everything. The best team in

Europe

of the season will be where it belongs, in the final on May 29 in

Istanbul

, where

Real Madrid or Chelsea

will have to face the major challenge of denying glory to the huge team that, after five years of cooking,

Pep Guardiola

has built

. The

PSG

, without injured

Mbappé

, could only play the role of -another figurante more- in brilliant work they are playing the

Citizens

in this Champions.


The second leg of the semi-final for the petrodollars broke down in just 10 minutes, when

Mahrez's

first goal

- he also scored the second - dampened PSG's momentum and devoured their morale. Two goals then would have been enough for

Pochettino's men

to send the tie to extra time, but they never had the faith to pursue them. Also, devoid of the bruised Mbappé, they lacked football, against

a City with a thousand resources

, capable of annihilating with eternal possessions and also counterattack if necessary, as happened last night.


Only the Mancunians really suffered during the dawn of the duel.

The Parisian start was furious, dizzying, designed by Pochettino to overwhelm Manchester City despite the fact that the state of the grass, covered by a thin layer of snow -removed at half-time-, did not invite the risks proposed by PSG.

The mix of

Herrera, Verrati and Paredes

allowed the visitors to take possession from the team that boasts the greatest dominance of the ball in the world.

His baggage, however, was meager.

Just a penalty that was not, as

Zinchenko

hit the ball with his shoulder, more with his back than with his arm, as the VAR confirmed.

The City's escape route

But even in that context of submission, City finds escape routes to be lethal. A shot from

Ederson

to Zinchenko, a shot from

De Bruyne

that hit a defender and the appearance of Mahrez

was enough

to collect the rebound. Only ten minutes had passed, PSG was playing as it should and, nevertheless, the tie was getting even more difficult.


The goal was a very heavy rock in the backpack of the French team, unable to believe from that moment that he had the capacity to complete the heroic. With the exception of Verratti, dominant in the medullary, all of Pochettino's players were desperately looking for

Neymar

as if the Brazilian could dribble half a dozen rivals on each play. It is good, a lot, but not so much as to unravel the entire defensive fabric of City on its own.


The elimination sentence came after game time, in another fierce counterattack again culminated by Mahrez, which ended up emotionally destroying PSG.

Di María

confirmed it six minutes later, expelling himself after hitting

Fernandinho

- who started by surprise instead of

Rodrigo

and completed a superb encounter - a voluntary stomp off the pitch.

The night was exhausted between dangerous kicks and at the wrong time due to the sheer impotence of the PSG players, who neither won nor knew how to lose.

The City had the cold blood to ignore the provocations and lead what was left of the game towards the outcome that they had

been dreaming of

for

13 years.


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