After a long wait, the Champions League has finally returned to the fans' field of vision, and on this matchday, the first leg of the two 1 8 finals was lost, Real Madrid went away to RB Leipzig, and Manchester City faced Copenhagen. With Dias's one-stop goal, Real Madrid narrowly won 1-0. With Haaland almost frozen, Kevin De Bruyne scored a great pass to lead City to a 3-1 victory.
Real Madrid 1-0RB Leipzig
Although Real Madrid has just beaten Girona 4-0 in the top battle of La Liga, Bellingham needs to miss 3 weeks with an ankle injury, and Rudiger is also exempt from the game, and the Galaxy Battleship has important main players absent at both ends of the attack and defense.
Just two minutes into the game, RB Leipzig took the lead: Schlager's long-range shot from outside the box was mistaken and turned into a cross, and Sheshko, who was ambushed in front of the goal, jumped high to head the goal, but the referee signaled that Henrichs was offside to interfere with the goalkeeper, and Real Madrid escaped.
Lunin was the busiest man on the pitch after that, saving from Seshko and Harvey Simons to send Real back to the dressing room with a 0-0 scoreline. In the 48th minute, Carvajal played the ball on the right side, Brahim Dias was like Messi possessed, past Raum, Schrager and Harvey Simons, and fired into the far corner in the penalty area, Real Madrid broke the deadlock.
Three minutes later, Henrichs crossed through the middle, Olmo stopped the ball and turned in one go, and shot from inside the box, Lunin saved the ball. In the 72nd minute, RB Leipzig's corner kick attack was defused, Brahim Dias made a long-distance run to instigate a counterattack, Vinicius stabbed into the far corner in the penalty area, but unfortunately hit the post and popped up.
In the final moments of the game, Harvey Simons and Sheshko tested Real Madrid's goal in succession, but Lunin repeatedly defused the danger. In the end, Real Madrid beat RB Leipzig 1-0 to take the lead in the two-legged duel and return to the Bernabeu in the second leg, where they were in a good position.
Manchester City 3-1 Copenhagen
While Real Madrid and RB Leipzig were in the thick of the game, Manchester City also came to the away game against Copenhagen, the least expensive of the last 16 rounds, with Pep Guardiola in the full line-up, Haaland, De Bruyne, Foden, B and Rodri all on the field.
From the very beginning of the game, Copenhagen shrank the defensive line, compressed Haaland's space as much as possible, and cut off his contact with his teammates, but the overall strength of the Blue Moon Army was obviously not affected. Just 10 minutes into the game, Phil Foden's clever cross from the right was met by Kevin De Bruyne from behind, and City got off to a dream start.
With a goal in hand, Manchester City's indiscriminate bombardment continues. In the 24th minute, Seat B crossed from the left, Vavro's header cleared and almost made an own goal, and the ball hit the crossbar and bounced. In the 30th minute, the ball was raised again on the left side of the B seat, and Haaland flew to volley, and the posture was full score, but the ball was not pressed and went over the crossbar out of bounds.
Four minutes later, Ederson made a low-level mistake and the ball from the back went straight to the feet of Elyouussi, who was blocked by Dias, but Matsson made a world wave at the top of the arc to equalize for Copenhagen, 1-1! However, just before half-time, City opened the gap from the right again, De Bruy played the ball with the instep of his inner and outer feet, and the B seat followed up with the catapult to give City the lead again.
De Bruyne's form has returned to the top of his game, contributing two goals and seven assists in nine appearances in all competitions, averaging one goal per game. In the rematch, Manchester City continued to "beat" the opponent, but Haaland missed chances in a row until De Bruyne's inverted triangle pass was touched by the opponent in stoppage time, and Foden followed up with the push to score, and Manchester City sealed the win 3-1.
Manchester City have won 11 consecutive games in all competitions, and it is also the ninth consecutive win in the Champions League across the season. The 3-1 score was enough to give the Blue Moon Army peace of mind and return to home in the second leg with Copenhagen in a sinister position.