Real Madrid is a team that can come back at any time in any situation. The performance they put in late in the match against Manchester City was really great. Where Manchester City was far ahead of Real Madrid, but Real Madrid outscored Manchester City and increased the goal difference. We usually know that in the Champions League matches, the team playing at their home ground is much ahead of the opposing team, but even though the match was held at the home ground of Manchester City, Real Madrid ensured victory by performing brilliantly there. Now only waiting for the performance of the second leg match. Manchester City will be under several times more pressure than Real Madrid in the second leg match because if Real Madrid draws the second leg match they will still be guaranteed the next round but Manchester City will need to win by a minimum of 2-0 goals to make the next round.
Well, that's Real Madrid, which we already know as a team that can always show its best performance at the right time. Even at the beginning of the UCL, Real Madrid experienced many difficulties and almost failed to make it to the play-off round, but in the end Real Madrid was able to recover and managed to enter the play-off round. And now when Real Madrid is faced with a difficult match against one of the strongest teams, namely Man City, it turns out that Real Madrid can also get through it well by winning yesterday's match which actually almost made Real Madrid lose. But with a few minutes remaining we saw Real Madrid turn things around quickly.
While I agree that Real Madrid is always a great team when it comes to UCL, we are also forgetting that City didn't play bad, for about 80 minutes it was a proper equals game and both sides played very well. The only problem is that after 80th minute, something happened to City and they just decided not to even play, everyone looked like they didn't even want to run. I know the difference between being tired and not being able to run anymore, and the unwillingness of running.
This is literally the reason why they sent Kyle Walker away, dude is one of the best right backs of all time when you look back on his career, but he literally gave up chasing all together, didn't even try. City still has some players that does the same right now if you ask me.