Real Madrid deals with the last 16 of the Champions League after having littered a total victory of 6: 3 against Manchester City in the Knockout play-off round.
Madrid worked in the Etihad Stadium a week earlier to win a 3-2 victory in Manchester before putting the metaphorical cake home in Bernabeu at home.
Kylian Mbappes Hattrick was the difference in a one -sided night that Madrid fired early. In the first half he added a second and completed his heights with just over an hour.
For Manchester City, which achieved a late consolation in January and signed Nico Gonzalez, they were no longer out of the group stage in the years 2012/13 before the last 16.
How the game unfolds
Manchester City immediately took control of the ball and looked for the goal that would compensate for the total point line. But before they could even start, the overall deficit was suddenly even greater than a long run over the central defender Mbappe made a breakthrough.
There was still work to do for the French, but he kept his serenity to raise the bouncing ball and overturn over Ederson into the back of the network.
The two-goal buffer gave Madrid an enormous self-confidence and it was as if they were playing with the city and playing with a freedom that led to an attack after the attack. A flood of corners issued a great threat, with visitors ultimately only pursuing shadows.
With half an hour, Mbappe was played again behind the city defense to unleash a strike of the ball towards the local defender, which was the same this time. That was a warning sign because he soon had a second and extended the overall point to three goals.
It was a blasty movement that started with Jew Bellingham with Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo took on a good measure, the latter putting the ball in Mbappe’s way. He let Josko Gvardiol sit on his butt before shot past the helpless Eöder.
Madrid started the second half at the top, and Rodrygo shot from Federico Valverde from the penalty area from the penalty area. Everson put his body behind another threatening Rodrygo effort, while Ruben Dias had to be in the right place at the right time to cut out a breathtaking Valverde cross that was intended for Antonio Rudiger on the long post.
When Mbappe met a further delivery of Valverde, Ederson was on hand to save in a close quarter.
Madrid’s hero of the night didn’t have to wait long to complete his hat trick. He easily beat Phil Foden with progress on the edge of the box and bent a measured left foot finish into the outermost lower corner. The city fans will not have been satisfied with the lack of intensity that they defend.
City gathered a little in the last quarter of the game, with the thread supporting Thibaut Courtois’s palms in the first real contribution of the Belgian goalkeeper. In the middle of a series of substitutions by both trainers who finally paved the way to achieve his first Champions League goal and achieve the rebound when Omar Marmoush’s free kick left the crossbar.
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This night is summarized why Real Madrid Kylian Mbappe is persecuted for so long.
It was a slow start after his Seismische July, which can be excused because it was expected to be up to date in a brand new club in a brand new country, in front of the back of an international tournament and a minimal summer rest.
But Mbappe was practically not playable in 2025 and this was his stage.
The best players in the world appear when it matters, and he did that and a few more. Four minutes in and took the very first chance of the game to kill the draw there and then effectively. His second goal of the evening was pure world -class quality, was able to take this additional second point in order to see the full picture in his head and make Josko Gvardiol embarrassed.
With confidence that ran through his veins, his hat trick strike was so easy to look. But it can be that easy when top players are in good shape.
Where Mbappe won the tie for Madrid, Erling was only among the U -boats for Manchester City.
Just a few days after City had started a nice victory against Newcastle United, after starting all 34 primary games of the Premier League and the Champions League, an excessive knock was that the Norwegian was not considered fit enough to use it after the return procedure To start on Tuesday.
Excuse the pun, but the city just didn’t have the stones for it.
City was already from the absence of her top goalkeeper and fell in an early deficit from John Stones in the openings in the first ten minutes.
His withdrawal seemed to really knock the rest of the team, although Madrid was hardly able to put a glove on an opponent that they went to toe so often.
It is even more worrying that the managers of City Premier League, Liverpool, organized on Sunday and needed in the race for the qualification of the Champions League points in the race for the Champions League qualification.
Carlo Ancelotti predicted before the first leg that the winner of this tie will raise the Champions League Trophy in Munich at the end of May.
That was already true in the last three seasons.
This was an earlier meeting than in previous years, so there is still a lot more football to play than a quarter or a semi -finals, as in the past. But 15 times the European champions will certainly be confident because they have eliminated one of their best rivals.
And these other remaining pages that both have seen Madrid’s determination to return in the first leg late and their demolition job in the second leg have reason to be intimidated.