Fede Valverde volleys Real Madrid level in thriller with Manchester City

. So then Madrid went and did it again. The last two European champions gave us another wild night to remember. Carlo Ancelotti had called for courage and personality and there was plenty of that, plenty of talent too, and six goals at the Santiago Bernabéu to set up what should be a superb second leg at the Etihad next week. If it is half as good as this it will be fun: it will also be on edge to the very end.

Feet out, studs out, Aurélien Tchouameni sent Jack Grealish to the floor as he was dashing towards the Madrid area, earning a yellow card after just 38 seconds that means he will miss the second leg. The free-kick was to the left of the area, 20 yards out. From there, faced by a wall made up only of Vinícius Júnior, and with Andriy Lunin looking more towards a cross, Silva saw an opportunity.

Only when Madrid are most in trouble tends to be when opponents are; if ever there was a team that can be turn everything on its head in a flash, if ever there was a stadium that can suddenly catch fire, it is the Bernabéu. City know that only too well of course, but it’s one thing to know it, another to be able to stop it – and almost as soon as they had led, Madrid did.. It came, as it so often does, from nowhere. From two deflections, in fact, as if this was another act of destiny.

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