Madrid must win, or at least draw and advance on penalties, in a stadium they have not yet conquered. Its about Etihad Stadium, City’s bunker, which has not seen its team fall in a Champions League match since November 19, 2018. It was in a group stage match against Olympique de Lyon the Ferland Mendywhich won 1-2 with goals from Cornet y Fekir. That match was led by Daniele Orsatowho will also be the referee in charge of directing Wednesday’s duel between City and Madrid.
Since then, the Manchester team has played 30 European Cup matches in their stadium, with an impressive record of 28 wins and only two draws. Nobody desecrates the Etihad, nor does Madrid, which last season took one of those routs that form part of the black chronicle of a club. He 4-0 in favor of the team Guardiola He defeated the Whites in the semi-finals and helped the English team reach their second European Cup final, in which they finally won the trophy.
That defeat was Madrid’s third in a row at City’s field. In the season 21-22also in the semifinals but on that occasion in the first leg, the locals won by 4-3 in an impressive match, which saw Madrid revive from a two-goal deficit on three occasions: 2-0, 3-1 and 4-2. It was the prelude to Madrid’s umpteenth miracle in that edition of the Champions League, the 3-1 in a volcanic Bernabeu…with arbitration, too, from Orsato.
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Madrid’s first defeat at the City stadium occurred on such an unusual date for an official match like the August 7th. It was the year 2020, with the world plunged into the terrible pandemic of the coronavirus. The second leg had been played half a year before, in February, and saw City win at the Bernabéu in one of the last games that was played with an audience in the stands. That Madrid between the wars, with Zidane back on the bench, played with Hazard on the left wing of the attack. He lost 2-1although he remained with options until the minute 68when Gabriel Jesus took advantage of the second serious error of Early to put the English ahead definitively.
Before those three consecutive defeats, Madrid had visited the Etihad twice, from which they emerged with two draws that were considered positive by the whites. Their first game in this stadium was a 1-1 draw in a match of the group stage of the Champions League 12-13. In fact, it was the time that Madrid came closest to winning at City’s field. He took the lead in the 10th minute through Benzemabut Omen tied with a penalty in the final stretch. The tie did not prevent Madrid from certifying the go to round of 16 in Manchester, nor did it prevent the elimination of City, in a group in which they were also Dortmund y Ajax.
In the 2015-16 campaign, Madrid and City met again, but already in semi-finals, thanks to City’s growth both domestically and continentally. It was a very close tie between the teams of Zidane y Pellegrini, which opened with a goalless draw at the Etihad. In the return, he decided a goal Balewhich opened Madrid’s way to the final of Milan and the conquest of Eleventh before him Atlético.
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