[FULL REACTION] Manchester City OUT of Champions League, lost to Real Madrid | ESPN FC 

All the pundits predictions turned out wrong! ❌ Arsenal to beat Bayern ❌ Manchester City to beat Real Madrid ❌ Athletico Madrid to beat Dortmund ❌ Barcelona to beat PSG I need to stop watching ESPN FC. Lol

ESPN is always doubting and ruling out Real Madrid all the time and they keep proving them wrong

Carvajal is an absolute legendary warrior🔥 year after year this guy defends his heart out.

people need to realize that Real Madrid was never going to the Etihad Stadium to dominate possession whatsoever. Ancelotti knew he needed to score first and he did with Rodrygo; if Madrid hadn't scored first, then there would have been no way that this team would come back. Ancelotti played around with Pep's tactics. City having like 70% possession meant nothing if everything they did with the ball was sideways or backward. For Ancelotti, he dictated City's style of play with his defensive structure and player movements. Yes, I agree that it looked disgusting to watch, but Ancelotti dictated the play for tonight's game. He was never going to play like last year when we lost 4-0 and he made the field open for City. In fact, all those goals for City came from central positions where Real Madrid's defense was dissected through the middle. This year, he blocked the middle of the park, which is where City thrives and gave them the wings. Ancelotti was playing around with Pep without Pep even knowing. This was a typical "You take the ball and play with it, but I won't give you a chance to penetrate and expose me" situation. Even City's goal today came from a lucky rebound back to De Bruyne. Other than that, City just passes the ball amongst each other with no real threat most of time. It felt like they kept the ball for 5 minutes for each attack and nothing happened. I don't know why people are pissed at the fact that Ancelotti didn't expand his team and make the game so open. He knew that the only way to beat City was by closing down the midfield and forcing them sideways. Then, it becomes a training ground drill of pressure and cover for the players. The agenda that City dominated was due to Ancelotti giving City the ball for the entire game, knowing well that he can control the way City attacks with his defensive structure. It was working the whole game but eventually, the ball rebounds in the path of a City player for a goal. Other than that, Ancelotti coached a defensive masterclass that City struggled all night to break down. Let's not forget, the same thing happened in the 3-3 game where City just passed the ball sideways and rarely created chances. In the 1st leg, they only scored through goals from outside the 18-yard box. Today, the exact same thing happened but Madrid had less possession than in the 1st leg. The only difference is that City never shot from a distance. Over the 2 legs, City could only really create scoring chances by shooting from outside the 18-yard box. We need to give a lot of credit to Ancelotti because he basically nullified City's passing through the midfield lines and forced City to play a boring sideways passing game over the 2 legs. Once again, Real Madrid controlled the game by having the ball since their defensive shape dictated that game and Real Madrid was content since they were making City do what they wanted them to do. That is to pass the ball sideways and backward and not penetrate through the midfield.

Lord Lucas Vasquez has nerves of steel, juggling with the ball there just before taking the penalty,it just reminded me of 2016 when he was coming to take penalty while rolling the ball on his finger in ucl final against Atletico Madrid. The most chilled person on ucl's nights.

Rudigar is one of the reasons why chelsea won a champios league. He locks the defene down!

Guardiola and Arteta losing in the CL at the same time. It's like the good old days!

Modric came on playing DM like he was Rodri. What a big time performer

Nacho played like maldini, rudiger played like rudiger and lunin challenged his inner courtois 😂, big win guys!

Real Madrid must be tired of proving this panel wrong!😂

Klinsmann the only pundit after the 1st leg who accurately said this game would be 50/50 when everyone else had City as the favorites. Only one on that panel with a high enough footballing iq to call it accurately

Any Madrid fans here ? Bayern fan speaking here. I am so happy that you kicked Sheik City out. When did we meet the last time ? It has been a while. I think it was 2018. What a draught. Finally we can have a proper match again. 😀

No way these pundits spent 2 months yelling about how Bayern and Real would be scared to play against Arsenal and City just for that to happen😂😂😂

Rudiger went home and emptied his pockets he found his keys , Foden, and Ghostland.

*Real Madrid is the definition of Football Heritage*

Big mistake last year was Rudiger was benched. He’s world class tbh

Lucas Vazquez is the coldest penalty taker ever!!

Jurgen Klinsmann predicted it very well.

Ancelotti pulled a old school Milan defence from the 90s

When is Rodrygo going to get the love he deserves for being a world class player and a big game player

Yesterday its ESPN who says Real Madrid are going out 😂😂 And today they have nothing to say 😂

Rudiger and Nacho masterclass performance. 🙌👏🙌👏🙌👏

journalist to mourinho "city had the ball for 90 min, more than 80%" mourinho "they can take the ball home, i take the 3 points"

Jurgen Klinsmann picked Real, Bayern, Borussia & PSG, everyone spacially Dan laughed hard at him. Now Klinsmann laughing at him & them and saved the reputation of ESPN FC 😂 well done Wc winner Klinsmann ( also mario)

Never underestimate Real Madrid in Champions League.

Real Madrid has a personal relationship with the European Cup! it’s like that ex that keeps coming back.

The hate you give Lunin is mindblowing. Are you not watching La Liga? The whole games? Guys single handedly has them where they are. Look at his stats! He’s the number 1 GK in La Liga! And he’s only going to get better with each start. Get used to him being world class and arguably the best GK in the world.

1. Lunin the wall you can't beat. 2. Rudiger so good at almost everything on defending. 3. Valverde has exellent stamina, great box to box midfielder. And Vini, And Rodrygo together! What a pair they are on the field.

Finally it's time for European Clasico. Bayern vs Madrid 🔥

One sided with possession. City is the old Barcelona. Eventually that gets old. Once Madrid figured out Barcelona tiki taka it was over

Let us not forget that defending is part of football, good teams defend well when they are under pressure

Modric is just too good his dribbling is so perfect 🤩

Lunin man of the match for sure. What a beast

It's always nice to come here to see the egg on their faces after beating their favorites😂😂😂

Lol, i think people have it messed up. Yes, I can say in the earlier stages Nacho was just a backup player. Over the years due to his versatility and with the threat of always playing 50+ games and potential injuries looming, he grew into the ideal cost effective player that could play all four positions and do it to the best of his ability. You think we would name a player we don't trust as captain?

Now all the pundits, toxic premier league fans and barca fans can cry together 😂😂😂

Luca modric going for his 6th champions league, what a player

Roy Keane was right about Haaland! 115 reasons to celebrate 🥂

What does one sided mean? Madrid scored first and Man City had to dig deep to tight the game. Defense is part of the game as well and Madrid was excellent defensively. Congrats to them.

It's like Deja vu....I've commented this same thing here more than twice in the last couple of years. I ALWAYS love it when Real Madrid are completely written off in the Champions league. Then when Madrid turn things around, it's back to the 'they were lucky' and 'they were completely outplayed' narrative. Then they get written off again next campaign, rinse and repeat. Especially in a season where Real Madrid suffered the worst injuries possible and the same season Benzema left and was not replaced and everyone said they'd go trophyless. Ancelotti should never be disrespected again by any Madrid fan!

ESPN should be named Man City TV. No much talk was dedicated to the brilliant performance of Real Madrid. Wow.

UK Media had more or less given them the CL and a back to back treble. I think some of the players even fell for this. Crazy

you are now saying all this, you thought city would win it easily 🤣🤣

Jurgen Klinsman is the man! 🎉 even predicted the penalty shootout . Special credit to Rodrygo, Rudiger, Lunin, Vinicius Jr, Valverde and again Rudiger!

Take your ball possession I take my three point 🔥

But City were the favorites to win the final... 😂

Im always gonna listen close to jurgen klinsmann's predictions from now on

Does everyone really think city will beat Madrid 4-0 again? That result last season was a once in lifetime defeat for them. They have learned from that defeat

We are such lucky bastards! 12 semis in 14 years. Lucky again and again and again and again and again and again and again ..

Klinsman said madrid to go in penalty , that was one crazy call . Respect . Learn espn panel learn instead of being biased just learm from him.

So there's no EPL teams remaining in UCL😅

Defensive masterclass! Give Carlo’s boys credit. They left their legs on the field

Disappointed they didn’t mention the heroics of Lunin; he stepped up his biggest game as a initial 3rd choice keeper and took some guts to back himself after Madrid missed their 1st penalty

Classic Pep Guardiola possession based stats. Classic ESPN pundits predicting incorrectly.

Remember guys Madrid played without Courtois,Militao,Thouameni,Alaba..etc Can't buy greatness and history.

Bayern and Madrid are through. The football heritage has won💯

Lunin was outstanding for us tonight, as usual. It's going to be a bit awkward when Courtois comes back but it's a nice "problem" to have.

They need to start Alvarez over Haaland ,cause if a teammate not putting the ball right on his feet he can’t score.

Watching Real Madrid once again show why they are the kings of Europe regardless of who is sitting in their spot temporarily.

Where’s the dude from last week who said the prem was too strong for this competition.

If 2 teams score 4 goals each and 1 team has 60% of the ball, that should tell you who's most efficient and who's got the ball for no reason.

Spain had this same problem a few years ago with the tiki taka plays that didnt do much but saw them having possession of the ball around the 18 yard box. They werent smart enough to start crossing the ball in the air with the hopes that a lucky header or a foul would be drawn . So, they couldnt penetrate through the ground play because of Madrid stacking the box and they never made any adjustments. Man City is suffering from the same problem. At a certain point, if you cant break the defense down through normal play, then, spread the ball wide and start putting air ball in the six yard box

Lol the way real Madrid left the possession for them was just crazy lol, man city passssssssssssed the ball , legend has it they are still passing today

We did it again, never count us out. Haha Madrid

Klinsman said it would be a penalty shoot out

R. Madrid's back line was solid AF. Lunin was stunning, Rudiger was a beast also.

I love love love Don Carlo.. but I respect him even more now. Kudos to Juergen K for his analysis

This is already a phenomenon of European football. An indestructible team, what a mentality against such a superior City. Bravo Carlo! You deserve another title!

Real Madrid mental toughness over the years is unmatched by many top clubs

There are many ways to win a football match, just because a team has most of the possession means nothing. We can forget that sometimes when a team defends they're pushing you into certain areas of the pitch where you can have possession but be ineffective with the ball so even shots at goal doesn't mean the defending team was outplayed if they're forcing you to take shots from distance. We all love attacking football but forget that defending is also a skill in itself so have to applaud Real for their strategy, tactics and nerve in the game

Only madrid can be winning for 116 minutes over 2 legs compared to man city's 18 min and everyone claims man city is the better team.

Real madrid have won 5 champions leagues in 10 years more than 90% of clubs in there entire history, could be 6 in 11 in 6 weeks which would put them 1 behind the second most (ac milan) thats absolute madness club finds away to win no matter what greatest winning club ever by a mile.

Pain went straight to the club Barcelona FC and their fans FC.😂

Ancelotti is the greatest coach. A genius. He’s so calm even when all against him, He’s Mr CL for a reason 👏

Let's be honest City applied pressure especially when Deku came on. A penalty shootout is 50/50.

They never learn 🤣🤣🤣 Hala Madrid.

Madrid are special

The semi the world wanted - Bayern Real with 20 freaking UCL titles between them. Only boys prayed for a City Arsenal semi.

lol Nacho was like prime Maldini this match 😂

If Rüdiger didn’t make that one mistake, this woulda been a defensive masterpiece be mad all u want

Madrid sending city fans back to 2008. They're all about to disappear 😂😂😂😂😂

I don't like how Craig took J Klinsmann shine. Come on now. The only man who got all predictions correct so far deserves a big up 🔥

The disrespect to nacho and carvajal lol they are better than any defender man city ever had

All your predictions were wrong. These pundits are absolute muppets.

If you're playing against Real Madrid don't celebrate until the referee Below the whistle 😂

Rudiger defending really made the difference shutting the parasite's out, he was outstanding apart from the Man City equaliser

Well done our Manager Klingsman 👏🔥😀

Bernardo Silva looked like he was sleepwalking towards an exit when he took that penalty. Too many soft chances missed by City.

Real Madrid’s dominance in the champions League needs to be studied 🧠🧐

It's not about who deserved to go through. City held on to more possession , completed more passes, had way more shots on target and yet , it's a shame on city that they couldn't capitalized those opportunities. It's not madrid faults that they scored early goal and went to defensive duties . They came Etihad with a game plan and it worked in their favour . Your possession means nothing if you don't win the game . City got knocked out of ucl by themselves .

Foden bottled a clear cut chance by swivveling too early- simple trap + shoot - goal. No one mentioned this

I hope espn highlights how there are no more English side in the champions league like how they did for the Italians

Except for Klinsmann with common sense, all clowns in the ESPN FC pundits.

You always write us off. But we are Real Madrid. Enjoy your humble pie

Jurgen got it all right, maybe because he wasn't biased. These guys need to watch more football.

Why ESPN fc always show Bellingham face when talk about real Madrid 😂 ? O English man I see .

What alot of people don't realise Real Madrid is used to playing teams who 'play the barca way'. When teams have alot of possession and try to score by walking the ball into the box. Real Madrid have learned how to counter that playing style and unfortunately that's the only way Pep knows how to play

Here comes this people again. At the end of the day, Real Madrid win. Now go and cry 😂. Man city have possesion and bla bla😂

That Bernardo Silva penalty kick ! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy !! Brilliant ... That rat thought he was too smart.

Finally some respect being put out for Carlos Ancelotti. Rightly pointed, no manager can have Madrid where they are with so many injuries.