Manchester woke up this Thursday with a warm sun typical of that spring period in which one comes across a girl with a wool hat picking up her hair or a guy in flip flops and shorts. On the front pages of the tabloids of the Portland Street kiosk, in front of the dilapidated Hotel Britannia, Bernardo Silva stole the limelight from Prince Harry and Megan. The two goals from the Portuguese made him worthy of it, precisely now that it is rumored that he is the man chosen by Al-Khelaifi to occupy the position that Messi will leave at PSG. ‘The Guardian‘ He made one of those puns so common in the British press using the rival’s name: “Real thrashing” (A real beating).
In Madrid there are no reproaches. They have been exceptional years that have exceeded the expectations of the group itself and, although it is wrong to say it, even Ancelotti’s, “he has pushed forward with what he had”. The miracle of the Champions League last year, the most incredible that we will see, covered deficiencies that have now been seen. A euphoric Guardiola stirred in the press conference before the questions of what he called in his day ‘the Cave’. I wish, yes, a good return to the “Spanish” journalists and then he went to celebrate taking an inopportune photo with the gesture of the 4 goals together with the sheikh and the bostero Macri. Image that Manel Estiarte posted on the networks and with which the Madrid expedition woke up, where he neither liked nor was surprised. “We already know what Pep is like,” a WhatsApp message from someone habitually embedded in the heart of the white expedition warned.
The English newspapers singled out Ancelotti more than the players, but they did so from the praise of Guardiola, without belittling the Italian. Carletto, who was very uncomfortable in the press room when asked about his future, once again showed that he is not amused at being the eternal question when something does not go well. “It’s a law of sport, sometimes you can lose”, he warned intemperately. However, the form was painful. A full-fledged outrage with a team that suffered like never before in the first half. Pep attacked Camavinga’s flank, where the Frenchman improvised as a winger without much help from a frankly improvable Alaba, the indolence of Vinicius and a Kroos more attentive to covering the shots on the edge of the area than falling to the side, where De Bruyme fell with insistence.
Guardiola blew kisses to a Grealish of whom Guti said after the return he said that “he didn’t leave anyone”. But the protagonist was Bernardo. To which Pep asked him to hit, hit and hit. The Portuguese was exultant at the end of the game. Even De Bruyne smiled despite having scolded Guardiola himself after a correction from the Catalan, who preferred to tune up the bagpipes and count to one hundred on the bench after the incident.
The fans point to Florentino
The night for the madridistas ended in the center of Manchester between the two hamburger restaurants that made the box of the month and the cold sandwiches from the only self-service that was open after midnight. “Carletto has done what he could, but either Florentino is scratching his pocket or we miss the boat in the Champions League. We are going to have the best stadium in Europe, but it would be better to think about who they are going to sign to put it on its feet ”, A man from Jaen with a cheese and ham sandwich with walnuts was pointing in the self-service queue, who in Spain was not even paid attention to.
Carvajal, the first to go to the press conference, pulled stripes: “Head high and balance sheets on June 4.” Modric, who was the first substituted, was touched by the win. He pointed to himself as the culprit in the locker room and it had to be his teammates who tried to cheer him up. Symptom, without a doubt, of the generational change that Madrid has pending for a couple of seasons in the core. He wasn’t the only angry one. Florentino didn’t even address the team when he went down to the locker room. The president preferred not to speak hotly and it seems that a busy summer is coming.
“We weren’t so good after conceding five against Liverpool at Anfield, nor are we so bad now after conceding four against City”, lamented a girl from León sitting on the platform of the Metrolink, the Manchester subway, which is actually a tram. And her boyfriend pointed out with a pint of more: “Nothing happens. Life is what happens between title and Champions League title for Madrid”. Real Madrid went to bed hurt by the “wiggle” suffered at the Etihad, but grateful to some players who have made them very happy. Almost as much as what the City expect Guardiola and Bernardo Silva to do to them. And Haaland, to whom Courtois gave the night. “Istanbul is left for another. But it gives me that we are going to kick England in the coming years”said goodbye to an architect from Teruel who had come to Liverpool, London and Manchester. See you soon.
2023-05-18 11:12:57
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