Quote from: Huppercase on Today at 07:59:12 PM

Quote from: tusandii on Today at 04:04:33 PM

Even though many people say that Real Madrid won and qualified for the semifinals based on luck, in my opinion, it's not just relying on luck, Anceloti has smart tactics, he knows that if Real Madrid doesn't get a draw, Man City will take advantage of the situation by playing at home as winners, so from Madrid kept its defense tight, making it difficult for Man City to score goals, even though Man City took many shots but only 1 of them was scored as a goal.

After the match between Manchester City and Real Madrid, he was asked how he feel about todays match and his answer was "that's the only way to win the game" which implies that in other to win Manchester City at Etihad, you must be quick to make goals from the beginning of the match and then quickly switch to defensive style including the center forward, they defended for the rest of the minutes after Rodrigo gave them first goal in the 12 minutes of the game, that lame excuse for people calling this a luck.

Literally, the best way to win a strong side that has almost same strength with you is to take early advantage and go for defensive play and that was what Real Madrid did because had it been they attacked Manchester city more after they were ahead of them they would have given them opportunity to equalize before halftime but knowing fully well that Manchester city is a team that attacks more than defend they immediately switch the play after scoring early goal against Manchester City but there is one thing i always talk about in football, when a match enters penalty shootout, any of the sides can win because penalty shootouts are always accompanied with lucks.

Another thing that made Real Madrid to emerge victorious is that they are very conversant with the champions league and have won it on several occasions so they literally know how to make sure they make their way to the finals and that was exactly their plan and it is most likely to work for them because it's very obvious that Bayern Munich can't withstand the pressure of Real Madrid in the semi finals and many football analysts and speculators were tipping the winner between Manchester city and Real Madrid to be the winner of the champions league so it's almost certain that Real Madrid is at the verge of winning another Champions league to the ones they already have.