Champions League: Man Utd edged out in seven-goal thriller against Copenhagen
Manchester United were dealt a major blow to their UEFA Champions League hopes as they fell to an agonising 3-4 defeat against Copenhagen.
Manchester United were dealt a major blow to their UEFA Champions League hopes as they fell to an agonising 3-4 defeat against Copenhagen.
Haaland was close to scoring six goals in a single match against RB Leipzig in UEFA Champions League. But Pep Guardiola denied him of this opportunity by substituting him in the 63rd minute of the game.
Atletico was given a penalty, but Lucas Hradecky stopped Yannick Carrasco's attempt, and Saul Niguez headed the rebound over the crossbar.
FC Barcelona got their Champions League off to a thundering start with a 5-1 rout of the Viktoria Plzen. And three of those goals were the work of Lewandowski, who has now scored 89 goals in the competition, the first three of those for Barca amounting to his sixth UCL hat-trick.
As Man City piled on the goals in the second half, Haaland became the youngest player ever to score 25 goals in the Champions League.
When Riyad Mahrez scored with 17 minutes remaining in Wednesday's semi-final second leg, City moved two goals ahead on aggregate and appeared to have floored Carlo Ancelotti's men.
Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, replaced Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, and Casemiro with Eduardo Camavinga, Marco Asensio, and Rodrygo, but it appeared to be in vain.
The 54-year-old Klopp said that reaching the final was an outstanding achievement, and a very special occasion as the rivals were fighting really hard to negate the advantage of the first leg.
Real Madrid go into the game with a 4-3 deficit and knowing that if City had been as ruthless in taking their chances as Karim Benzema and Vinicius Jr were in Manchester last week, the tie would probably be out of sight by now.
With striker Gerard Moreno a surprise inclusion in the Villarreal starting 11 on Tuesday night, the home side kicked off with a totally different attitude to the team that sat deep at Anfield last week and they got their reward as early as the third minute.