Key occasions
90+1 min Simply 4 minutes of added time.
90 min Foden went off simply earlier than that, to get replaced by Julian Alvarez – Pep’s first sub of the evening.
89 min Modric is working the present now, together with his suave crosses. The most recent one wins a nook, which results in a shot from Brahim – huge.
86 min Ancelotti makes use of the pause to make one other substitution: Vini Jr off, Joselu on. So Metropolis’s defenders not have to deal with both of Actual’s Brazilian dangermen.
85 min As Metropolis threaten once more, Foden goes down injured. He seems to be in a number of ache: Camavinga stood on the again of his Achilles, by chance so far as I may inform.
“Tim,” says Kim Thonger, “the Metropolis followers might not like this however that Foden shot was pure Bobby Charlton. OK, it was together with his left foot, however the slight lean backwards, and the physique form, and the arm motion, have been beautiful, as Sir Bobby at all times was.” Good level! Although the United followers might not prefer it both. You’ve simply offended the entire of Manchester, and half of London.
83 min Can’t we simply name this the ultimate?
81 min Bellingham, coming alive, makes use of his head in each senses to carve himself some area within the Metropolis field, however he can solely win a nook. Metropolis clear it and there’s a fracas close to the centre circle, which results in a yellow card for Carvajal.
80 min There didn’t appear to be a lot hazard as a cross was floated over the field, however there was Valverde, hitting a volley with fabulous approach – low and rasping.
GOAL! Actual 3-3 Man Metropolis (Valverde 79)
The pendulum swings once more – and it is a magnificence.
78 min Correction! Modric didn’t substitute Rodrygo. He took over from Kroos in midfield, which makes extra sense, whereas Rodrygo gave method to Brahim on the wing.
76 min Metropolis are slowing the sport down, understandably. If they’ll maintain out for 20 minutes, Actual could have misplaced at house for the primary time since April.
74 min Arsenal have scored too! Leandro Trossard makes it 2-2 on the Emirates.
72 min That objective did get Pep celebrating, with a dad dance. Ancelotti responded by sending on Luca Modric and taking off Rodrygo, which was a shock.
71 min Gvardiol has simply scored his first objective for Metropolis! With a superb, cool, right-foot end, after good work by Foden and Grealish. Metropolis take the lead for the second time.
GOALLLLL! Actual 2-3 Man Metropolis (Gvardiol 70)
And one other!
69 min Pep reacted by gesticulating busily, not in celebration however so as to organise the following section of the sport. And he despatched De Bruyne out to heat up. Hope he’s feeling higher.
67 min Foden hit a superb shot from the sting of the field, into the highest nook. The opening was made by Stones, who sneaked into the inside-right channel, took the ball from Silva, and performed a easy sq. ball.
GOAL! Actual 2-2 Man Metropolis (Foden 66)
They’ve achieved it!
63 min Higher from Metropolis. Rodri chips out to Grealish, who wins a nook, however Metropolis can’t make it depend as Camavinga (I believe) picks Foden’s pocket.
62 min Simply to indicate that two can play at that sport, Actual spend a while simply exterior Metropolis’s field. Nothing comes of it.
60 min Cometh the hour, cometh the person of the primary two minutes. Bernardo Silva has a go from distance, however it’s too near Lunin..
59 min Are Actual parking the bus? They’ve obtained 11 males behind the ball as Metropolis play endurance once more. Foden is nearly fouled twice, so he turns into the most recent Englishman to present the ref an earful.
56 min One other minute, one other shot. Vini Jr goes excessive together with his left foot when he might need achieved higher to change to his proper and keep low. He and Rodrygo have been the celebs of the present to date.
55 min Rodri, towering over his reverse quantity Toni Kroos, heads over the bar from a free kick that was nicely gained by Haaland with two males on him.
53 min Bellingham shoots simply huge. Foden gave the ball away, Bellingham slalomed into the field, switched onto his left foot and didn’t get both the ability he was after or the precision. He creates himself, which is a greater look than swearing on the ref.
51 min Grealish, so wily at getting the whistle on his facet, wins a free kick close to the D. Silva takes it and goes low once more as he did on the very starting, however this time there’s a wall and it does its job.
50 min Foden makes his finest run to date, down the left wing, however his cross doesn’t get close to Haaland.
49 min Silva finds Grealish, who sashays in and hits his shot too excessive.
47 min Foden is fouled by Ferland Mendy, who then says one thing to harass him. The ref goes over with a phrase relatively than a card.
46 min Actual resume with a protracted ball from the again, which sails harmlessly by way of to Ortega.
“You understand, I used to love Bellingham earlier than he went to Madrid,” says Joe Pearson. “A lot enjoyable to observe at Dortmund. Now he appears conceited, mouthy, stuffed with entitlement. Cristiano Ronaldo 2.0.”
“Re clusters,” says Francis Mead. “I you ask a mathematician, she’ll let you know that when one thing is actually random, you will notice clusters sometimes – not in some properly spaced, pleasing to the attention, organized rhythm. So Guardiola, immortal as he’s, remains to be topic to the legal guidelines of gravity and statistics.”
“A few years again,” says Kári Tulinius, “Jonathan Wilson identified that Guardiola groups concede in clusters. It’s such an odd factor to see occur time and again. It’s as if transport a objective overloads their psychological circuits and so they’re unable to maintain focus.”
“Groups are beginning to determine,” says Tim Pearson, “that it’s not arduous to get beneath Bellingham’s pores and skin and knock him off his sport. We noticed Brazil do it within the current pleasant and Actual are doing it at the moment. He wants to indicate he can’t be rattled that method.” Amen to that.
HALF-TIME! Actual Madrid 2-1 Man Metropolis
A half of two halves. The primary was brief and explosive, with Metropolis taking a shock lead by way of Silva’s intelligent free kick after which Actual hitting again with two targets in two minutes, as if it was 2022 yet again. The second half of the half was longer and fewer dramatic, although nonetheless energetic. Actual have been higher on the counter, Metropolis higher at maintaining possession. Time for a sizzling drink.
45+2 min Metropolis push down the correct once more, however this time they take the endurance too far, consuming up stoppage time. Actual, much more direct, cost upfield, however they’ll’t get a shot away both.
45 min Phil Foden, who has been much less seen than regular, will get busier. A affected person transfer ultimately finds Grealish, who slips Rodri in on the overlap. He performs a pleasant chipped cross, however Haaland climbs on one of many two males marking him and provides away a foul. There might be three added minutes.
42 min Vini Jr, at all times within the motion, goes dancing into the realm once more. His shot goes straight into the arms of Ortega. As Steve McManaman factors out, that was an motion replay of Rodrigo’s shot at 30 min.
40 min Look away now should you don’t wish to know what’s taking place within the different sport. There’s been a second for Bayern … from Harry Kane.
39 min Rodrygo is down after getting an arm within the face as Akanji shielded the ball. n a separate incident, Akanji has picked up a yellow card.
36 min Bellingham, good as he’s, has grow to be a ache within the ear of the ref. He was getting a bit conceited for England final month and he’s at it once more now. Let your toes do the speaking!
34 min Dias goes in arduous on Bellingham, leaving him on the ground. No foul, so Actual play on and the following whistle goes Metropolis’s method.
33 min Rodrygo goes nearer this time! Actual raced away on the counter, Vini Jr performed a pleasant little lay-off, and Rodrygo hit it arduous however too excessive. Earlier than that, Grealish discovered a pocket of area within the field and had his shot blocked.
“I believe,” says John Potter, “Metropolis at the moment are conscious Actual usually are not Man U in disguise.”
30 min Because the half-hour comes up, Rodrygo surges down the left and fails to utilize the area Metropolis are giving him, so his shot goes straight at Ortega.
“Each time Camavinga will get the ball,” says Kim Thonger, “I, being a bit deaf, assume the commentators are shouting Cowabunga.
“Initially, earlier than the Turtles hijacked it, the exclamation was popularised (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American 40s/50s kids’s present Howdy Doody. Later, through surf tradition, within the early Nineteen Eighties it was used because the Cookie Monster’s catch-phrase on Sesame Avenue.
“Chief Thunderthud, as everybody is aware of, was later reincarnated as Erling Haaland.”
28 min Actual, as if to rub it in, play out from the again with some pretty clean diagonals. Then it’s their flip to maintain the ball in midfield, however Kovacic wins it again and attracts a foul from Carvajal.