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MADRID: Karim Benzema scored an extra-time penalty as Actual Madrid pulled off one other astonishing comeback within the Champions League to stun Manchester Metropolis 3-1 on Wednesday and e-book a showdown with Liverpool within the last.
Metropolis seemed sure to undergo when Riyad Mahrez put them 1-0 up and 5-3 forward on combination however Rodrygo, on in its place, scored an unimaginable late double, his objectives within the ninetieth and 91st minutes sending the tie to additional time.
Because it occurred: Actual Madrid vs Manchester Metropolis
With Metropolis nonetheless reeling, Actual Madrid landed the knock-out blow as Benzema earned after which transformed a spot-kick to grab a 6-5 win on combination, with one other outstanding fightback on the Santiago Bernabeu added to the membership’s lengthy checklist of magical European nights.
This season, Madrid had already carried out the unlikeliest of rescue acts to defeat each Paris Saint-Germain within the final 16 and Chelsea within the quarter-finals however, given the stakes and the way shut they had been to defeat, this one in opposition to Manchester Metropolis was certainly essentially the most dramatic.

Like PSG and Chelsea earlier than them, Metropolis will marvel how they emerged as losers from a match they largely managed and there will probably be contemporary scrutiny too on coach Pep Guardiola, who, for all his success, goes one other 12 months with out main Metropolis to the European glory they so crave.
Metropolis’s collapse would have been nearly inexplicable had it been in opposition to anybody aside from Actual Madrid, who advance to their seventeenth last within the competitors. They’re a victory in opposition to Liverpool away from lifting a 14th European Cup.
“One other magic night time from the kings of Europe,” learn a banner draped over the stand at one finish earlier than kick-off however for many of regular time, this match did not stay as much as the seven-goal thriller on the Etihad Stadium final week.
Actual Madrid had been the extra assertive early on, with Benzema given a few tough alternatives that solely he, in his present kind, may need anticipated to transform. As an alternative, he headed over and fired excessive.

In between, Luka Modric and Rodri clashed over a Casemiro problem after which Metropolis stepped ahead, squeezing Madrid into errors as Kevin De Bruyne hit Thibaut Courtois from distance earlier than the goalkeeper needed to make a wise response save from Bernardo Silva.
Actual Madrid survived after which improved earlier than the break, Modric inflicting a roar of satisfaction when he outsprinted De Bruyne to chop off a counter.
In all probability their greatest probability got here inside seconds of the restart as Dani Carvajal discovered area down the best however Vinicius Junior shot extensive on the again submit.
Metropolis had been on the again foot as area opened up for Modric within the field however a poor contact made his end tough. A sloppy Kyle Walker move set Casemiro unfastened however the weaving Vinicius was unable to discover a method by.

An harm to Walker checked Madrid’s momentum and when the sport discovered its rhythm once more, Metropolis struck, Ilkay Gundogan’s move slicing by Madrid’s midfield and discovering Silva, who danced by to the sting of the field.
Silva formed to shoot however as an alternative wedged the ball proper to Mahrez, who smashed it laborious, early and previous Courtois.
Modric went off and with the Croatian appeared to go a few of Madrid’s perception.
Jack Grealish, on in its place, may have made it two for Metropolis however someway Ferland Mendy cleared off the road, earlier than one other Grealish shot flashed previous the submit.
It felt inconsequential as a result of Madrid seemed useless and buried however someway, out of nowhere, they discovered a method again.
It was the ninetieth minute when Benzema cushioned a ball brilliantly throughout for Rodrygo to feather in on the close to submit and the cheer for the aim was solely somewhat louder than for the stadium announcer then saying there can be six minutes of added time.
Madrid solely wanted one as Metropolis, for thus lengthy so compact and composed, had been all of the sudden sprawled and all it wanted was for Carvajal to swing a cross into the field, the place the diminutive Rodrygo headed in.
When play resumed, Madrid emerged the stronger and 4 minutes in, they’d a penalty, Benzema tumbling over the drained, lunging leg of Ruben Dias earlier than ignoring Metropolis’s makes an attempt at distraction by rolling the spot-kick into the nook.
Metropolis pushed as Fernandinho got here up simply quick on the again submit when Courtois parried away. A late flick from Dias into the field floated harmlessly into the fingers of Courtois, Metropolis’s last try coming to nothing.