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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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