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Real Madrid 3 - Manchester City 2

Champions League Group D

Bernabeu Stadium

18/9/12

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Damir Skomina

Real Madrid
3 - 2
Manchester City
Marcelo 76′ Benzema 87′ Ronaldo 90′
 
Dzeko 69′ Kolarov 85′
 
Venue: Bernabeu Stadium
 
Attendance: 67,000
The Teams
01 Casillas
 
 
 
01 Hart
 
 
02 Varane
 
 
 
03 Maicon
 
 
74'
03 Pepe
 
 
 
04 Kompany
 
 
12 Marcelo
 
 
 
22 Clichy
 
 
17 Arbeloa
 
 
 
33 Nastasic
 
 
06 Khedira
 
 
73'
 
08 Nasri
 
 
36'
07 Ronaldo
 
 
 
14 Garcia
 
 
14 Alonso
 
 
 
18 Barry
 
 
15 Essien
 
 
65'
 
21 Silva
 
 
63'
22 Di Maria
 
 
 
42 Y Toure
 
 
20 Higuain
 
 
 
32 Tevez
 
 
Substitutes
13 Adan
 
 
 
30 Pantilimon
 
 
04 Ramos
 
 
 
05 Zabaleta
 
 
74'
05 Coentrao
 
 
 
06 Lescott
 
 
08 Kaka
 
 
 
13 Kolarov
 
 
36'
10 Ozil
 
 
 
17 Rodwell
 
 
19 Modric
 
 
73'
 
10 Dzeko
 
 
63'
09 Benzema
 
 
73'
 
16 Aguero
 
 
Game Statistics
29
Goal Attempts
8
16
On Target
5
7
Corners
3
6
Fouls
9
0
Yellow Cards
3
54
%
46
Comments...
Johnny On The Spot: A night that hurts like hell. City were 5 minutes away from recording a stunning victory in Madrid but were ultimately undone by conceding two sloppy goals having absorbed everything Real threw at them and twice gone in front. Joe Hart's clear anger and frustration spoke for us all post match...To a man City gave their all tonight against a quite brilliantly talented side and held their own for long enough periods to make their own presence felt...It's often unfair to single out individuals in a solid team effort, but Barry, Clichy and Tevez were outstanding. The next step now is to take this result out on the Ashburton bottlers this Sunday... A couple of special mentions. We don't often say this on VMC but the referee had a great game putting dreadful Premier League cardsmiths to shame. Meanwhile the self styled "special one" Jose Mourinho continued his quest to become the next rag manager with a classless straight down the tunnel walk off and tacit refusal to give City any credit for a tremendous performance tonight. His sheer, sweat drenched relief said it all. City have arrived at the top table and we can be justly proud of our team tonight. stats courtesy BBC




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Date:Tuesday September 18 2012

Time: 9:41PM

Your Comments

Shocked at giving up a lead twice.
Buzz Lightyear
It's not the defeat that hurts so much as the hope we had been given.
Skoorb
Had to be the very essence of ragness that scored the winner, didn't it? Being FB'ed, Tweeted and texted by rags having a jolly good titter - convenient the way he shat on them from such a great height eh?
fifthcolumnblue
If we can make it past the group stage, then we should do well. We proved we can mix it with the best, and I feel sorry for Hart the most.
johnkelv
We played the team who on their day (like today) are the best club side in the world, they won La Liga over the generation defining Barcelona team. Simple fact is that they are better than us at this point just as they are better than pretty much everyone else. To almost win there is amazing but at 2-1 we should have held on and WOULD have held on if we defended like we once did. Defence needs sorting.
StuMCFC
Of Real's 29 goal attempts on target...28 were from outside the box. Still, if you buy enough lottery tickets...
Spooks
 

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