Valverde ensures honours even after after night to remember at Bernabéu

Both Real Madrid and Manchester City showed their character and class during a six-goal thriller which leaves the quarter-final tie wide openReal Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga celebrates scoring his team's first goal against Manchester City during the Champions League quarter final first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. Photograph: Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images. So then Madrid went and did it again.

And then just when it seemed a comeback of their own was complete, Madrid did it again, Fede Valverde rounding off a noisy, tense and emotional night with a belting volley that left everyone exhausted but more or less where they already were.Keano-esque McCabe can’t stop the inevitable with Ireland left admiring England’s qualityIt had been a long night and City could not have wished for a better start.

Only 95 seconds had passed and City were in control, or so it goes. Just three minutes later, Erling Haaland received inside the area, turned and got off a shot, which was blocked by a combination of Lunin’s hand and the post. Then, suddenly, they were ahead. Lunin gathered a Grealish cross, rolled the ball to the left, Vinícius span and released Rodrygo and he raced into the City area where his shot hit Manuel Akanji’s heel, leaving Ortega helplessly watching another ball roll into his net. 114 seconds were all it had taken to wipe City out.

At the other end, by contrast, every time Madrid set off, the space seemed vast. Too often those runs began with City giving the ball away, the vulnerability spotted and seized upon. Even, at times, when Rodri and Silva had possession. City were City again, and a long period of possession saw John Stones and Silva work a little space on the edge of the area for Foden, who turned and bent a wonderful shot into the top corner. Then, just three minutes after that Gvardiol struck a superb shot into the net.

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