Manchester City played absolutely well last night by making Madrid struggle to get the ball and it's what I was expecting from the Citizens, to me Madrid was no match for City. After the first goal by Vinicius Jr I thought that would be another problem for Manchester CITY, like they would be panicking to get an equalizer but Pep controlled his boys asking them to continue pushing till they got a goal.
Manchester City played well in the first half of the match, but immediately Real Madrid scored their first goal, they pattern of playing changed, pressure was on Manchester city till first half ended, when second half started, Manchester City performance dropped, pressure was on Manchester city until they equalized, before they gained their confidence back and the match balanced. The two clubs tried yesterday, they both played as a professional. But I believe Manchester city is having higher chances of winning the second leg.
I still don't know why whenever it comes to a crucial game such as this, Erling Haaland would just be a ghost in the game, like is worrisome and Pep Guardiola needs to start up somebody who's not relaxing in games such as this like Alvarez.
I was suprise not seeing Haaland performance in the match yesterday, you won't even notice Haaland was in the match yesterday, Madrid players didn't give him chance yesterday, they did everything to stop ball from going to his direction yesterday and if ball was with him, they did everything to stop him, I don't really think we should blame him or coach for that, no matter anybody that's in the position, they will definitely do everything to stop him.