gab is 100% right, Madrid went to Etihad and won without their main GK, two centers back and a defensive midfielder.

Both legs of the tie lasted 210 minutes: - Man City led for 18 minutes. - It was a draw for 76 minutes. - Real Madrid led for 116 minutes. Luck, they said.

Real Madrid won it, full stop. Not even a debate.

How about giving the goal keeper credit for reading that Bernado Silva was planning to go down the middle. He stood there for a reason.

Give us our mf respect. We didn't even have a ST and played without tchouameni. Real Madrid absolutely won this with resiliency and tenacity

No main GK, two main CB, Defensive midfielder, and no starting striker.

All these pundits had City winning, they all doubted Madrid. Now they act like dumb like they weren’t all completely wrong

Unbelievable how Real Madrid focussed on defend for 120 minutes, it took a lot of concentration, energy & mentality.

Give some credit to Madrid as Shaka said. They defended out of their skin and Man City were just not clinical in their finishing and couldn’t break through the defence

I actually respect Ancelotti for recognising city's strength and madrid's weakness. Having that two ends met on your favor is actually a good tactic.

I repeat, this was one of the best defensive performances in football history

Stevie says he doesn't know how Real beat Liverpool in final for god sake we have beaten them 5-2 at anfield and numerous other times before that, stop acting like they are invincible or something.

They say Madrid was lucky to win this game, but then De Bruyne goal was lucky that the ball landed in front of him! If it didn’t happen, it won’t even go to overtime nor penalty.

This should be a lesson..... That Spanish and German clubs are more consistent in Europe against English clubs

Real Madrid made the two main players of Man City tried and asked their coach to be subbed. This is a new record. 😮

Lmao stevie is always salty when Real Madrid win 😂😂😂😂😂

If Atletico Madrid had won this way everyone would say, "Yeah, that's how Diego's teams play". But when Carlo chooses to play that way it's apparently not football to many people.

Love the tears that these english pundits are displaying .

City generated 2.7 xG in 33 shots over 120 minutes. That’s less than .1 xG per shot. That’s less than 10% chance to score per shot. City had 2 quality chances all game: 1 from a mistake from Rudiger and 1 they generated from their play via Doku and Akanji, but KBD missed. The idea that Man City battered RM is just false. RM forced City wide all game, and City had no ideas on how to break down RM. Edit: Some of you pointed out my math was wrong so I had to double check. I did in fact miss a zero for the percentage. But that is now fixed. Regardless, City generated less than .1 xG (.08 xG) per shot in average which is the point. XG is an extremely flawed stat, but based the volume of shots, I believe the argument can still stand: the idea that City “pummeled” RM is simply not backed up by any data, or even simply watching the game. We can keep going down this rabbit hole and point out that out of City’s 33 shots only 9 were on target mind you, which is another set of data and statistics I don’t want to get into. You can look up xG vs xGot if you’re interested.

No, Real Madrid won it. Sore losers these pundits

Halland asked Pep to be substituted because he wanted to escape from rudiger 😂😂

If madrid keeps beating the best it sounds ridiculous how people say they are lucky year after year. NOBODY has won it 3 times in a row. Come on people

Funny how Stevie accuses others of being angry yet this guy flips out all the time. Talk about projecting. Hey Stevie, we all know your precious Liverpool have been embarassed like almost every other EPL club in Europe but you don't need to cry 😂

Show some respect to Carvajal, Nacho and Rudiger whom kept Haaland, Grealish, Foden and Doku silent for almost the entire game. Not to mention these guys are all above 30 years old. This’ll be actually the best season to beat Madrid because next season they’ll have Endrick, and possibly Mbappe that would make them unbeatable for years to come.

What kind of question is this? ESPN is such a joke.

How typical of ESPN! Instead of giving Real Madrid credit where it's due but rather trying to find a way to discredit their Hercules effort last night.

I remember when city parked the bus against atl Madrid after being up a goal n won the tie and they all love it 😂

No Bayern Munich segment from ESPN FC??? Wow , if Arsenal would’ve won ESPN FC would’ve been making 2 hour segment about that.

They played 210 minutes overall. RM was ahead 116 minutes, while City managed to be ahead, only 18 minutes. When RM had to score, they did when they had to defend they did. RM had City where they wanted most of the time, and when you look at the stats in relative terms, RM was more efficient offensively and defensively. City are a very inefficient team. That's a fact.

"Boss, we're missing our first choice keeper, center backs, and CDM. Surely we have to go all out and try to score more than we concede?" Ancelotti: raises eyebrow and says "We defend." "Yes, Don Carlo."

These are the only four people who cannot accept that Real Madrid won 😂

A wise man once said attack wins you games, defence wins you trophies.

Real Madrid Will Always Teach Other Clubs How And What Football Is All About

There’s more than one way to play football. As good as Peps style is, defensive shutouts have been part of the game for a long time. Real Madrid implemented it quite well and came out victorious. Kudos to them

Better side because of ball possession? 30 shots 1 goal ?!! Are we going to act like Madrid wasn’t better defensively and better offensively?

You can’t say Madrid got battered when their plan was to sit deep absorb pressure and hit on the counter and then they go do exactly that. Getting battered is if they sat deep and conceded 3-5 goals not 1 goal in 120 minutes against City at Manchester. Any other team does that and you say great defending.

real madrid won it and man city lost it. Real madrid was amazing on the counter attack and had amazing defense throughout the game, while man city couldn't penetrate inside the penalty box with the amount of time they had the ball.

A win is a win. Whoever won it went through to the next round. Debate over.

😂Stevie still hurts. _How did they do it_ Stevie, 2 years ago Real Madrid had - at the very least - the 2 best players in the world in Benzema and Courtois. It's not always about the pretty side of the game? No, not always, but I'll tell you what, that performance in Stamford Bridge, including those headers for Benzema's hat-trick, after his hat-trick against PSG, the pass from Modric for Rodrygo's volley, Benzema's extra time header, Rodrygo's own header v City, Vini's quick hand shake with Klopp before appearing seconds later from behind Trent to score in Paris, and all the miraculous saves of Courtois throughout the season were each beautiful in their own right. That's how they did it, Stevie boy.

ESPN can’t get over Real Madrid winning still. Will call it luck and other things than admit they defended their hearts out and win the game

Gab Marcotti is the only sensible pundit in espn

How many difficult saves dud Lunin have to make in the 120 minutes? 2 or 3? I'd say that means that Real controlled the game without having the ball. The knew what they had to do and they did it

This game also shows how important Stones is, Akanji was free'd coz he can't score. Man City doesn't score from crosses, so they let them cross. First game Silva and Foden scored some great shots, so what did Madrid do, stopped the shots. And what's wrong with defending its just as much an art as attacking. How many teams can say they can do that nowadays. And even City can't, so thats why I think Madrid is better team because they have the better manager.

Yes Gab. Thank you. Ten hag would have gotten absolutely roasted if he had said that instead of Pep.

Don’t forget that defending is part of the game.! Also our coach is Italian and he knows how to defend.

Guardiola is obviously lying about the subs, He just want to protect his image, shame on him to blame the players

Pep absolutely traumatised 😂😂😂😂

If Man city would a won the game , everyone would be talking about how genius is Pep he don’t neeed KDB or Halaand to win a match . Because pep could do without them .

if it's only one team that was playing... then that team should've put the ball into the net more than just once!

This thing of deserving to win is just ridiculous. No one deserves anything in this world, if youre a winner then just win

Defensive play is a critical part of the game. Period!!

These pundits gotta give Lunin the credit he deserves... That Bernado Silva penalty was pure reading of Lunin and wise decision of Lunin.

Stong is the team that wins at the end of the day. Real Madrid are not called Kings of Europe because they play the best football, They are called so coz they have 14 UCLs It's just bizarre that a team is criticized because they played a certain way. in the end both team scored 4 goals, if Man CIty is so great in offensive play why could they not score more. 30shots 18corners and you score 1goal, I guess the problem is being clinical.

“Gab why are you so angry?” 🤣🤣🤣

has Pep ever considered that his strategy is not the best way to beat elite teams? if you side pass and back pass so much that it makes you press resistant, it forces the other team to defend deeper and deeper until they've parked the bus. so now your ability to create good chances goes down significantly. if you played more direct and played riskier passes, you'd give up the ball more but the other team would push forward more, and thus give you more space in transition to attack into. and counter attacks seem like they'd work really well when you have players like Doku, Haaland, Foden, and De Bruyne. but i guess Pep would rather have 70% possession, create 2-3 good chances, lose, and then get to complain that they were the better team even though they lost.

Rodri's arrogance!"'Only one team played" Nonsense!

Madrid proved to us once more that the 'Special One' is not dated after all 🤣😂🤣😂

In the final against Liverpool, I was always more confident Real Madrid would score than Liverpool would. So Stevie is talking nonsense.

The only difference between a good penalty and a not good one is just as simple as whether it goes in or not I have seen in many occasions players took penalty like Bernardo did against Madrid, and when it went in, people said it was a good/clever/well taken penalty The same with Modric's and Kovacic's. One day penalty like those went in and people praised it, some other day it didn't go in and it's a bad penalty.

This question is *NEVER* asked when a Premier League team wins. Somehow they always win on merit. 🙄🤦‍♂️

"How about we talk about what happened." Great point from Stevie when talking about Real Madrid. Pitty he doesn't subscribe to this thinking when talking about Salahs miss which if it went in, Liverpool could've, should've, would've, might've won the tie. Even if they lost 3-1 on aggregate. Just give Stevie his own Liverpool fancast.

Pundits and down casting Madrid 😂😂 just makes me laugh.. defending is part of playing too.. never underestimate the soon to be 15time champions 🎉🎉

If Real Madrid had gone down they would’ve played differently. but you’re a goal up after 12 minutes and given you had to be beat through long shots last game, there is no need to attack if you can avoid them this time. City had more possession but they kept doing side passes and struggled to create a clear chance. Real Madrid did give away possession easily, but there was clearly a lack of trust in nacho on the ball that it was better to kick the ball out and try to win a duel in the air than to start from the back like ancelotti usually does. If you try to play back and forth like in the first match you don’t know if you’ll be up 4-0 or down 1-4 at the end of the match. They absorbed the pressure well, and even when debruyne scored there was no need to chance tactics when you can tell city was having trouble breaking through. Lunin had 8 saves, but they were mostly shots straight to him

ESPN TV should simply be named Man City tv.

If Haaland & De Bruyne would have laid down like Carvajal. Then it’s creíble. They were not credible. On the other hand Real Madrid learned from their lesson last year not to press because it would let City break in behind the lines. Excellent job at defending behind the line even if it gave more possession to City. Results paid out at the end.

What is ESPN's Kryptonite? Giving credit to Real Madrid 🙃

All the speculation about why they lost is irrelevant. Real Madrid's defense and goalie were better than Man City on this day. End of story.

Smoking on that city pack

Real Madrid won it Score early and shut it down until Penalties Madrid won it because their Game Plan WORKED They made the City players tired Pep said Haaland n KDB couldn't even stand anymore

There's more than one way to win a football game, I hate it when one team says after the match "Only one team was playing or etc." Hate possession based football, it makes people think if you have 70/80% of the possession ENTITLES you to the win.

The most surprising thing was how Real Madrid were the fresher side in the second half of extra time and started pushing City back with lightning fast counter attacks.

The team that did not advance lost. There's your answer.

I really don’t understand “from a football perspective they got battered” bro thinks defending isn’t part of football😂🤦🏾‍♂️

Premier League is so over rated... All the teams are out of the Euporean competition like always.

Pep lie all the time, what trust has he earned.

Real Madrid learnt from the previous bait while Pep was still seriously working on the same old bait.

Debate should be Anciolotti over Pep

there's nothing harsh about that Stevie. Bernardo's penalty was so stupid

REAL MADRID: "WE COME IN PEACE!!!!"🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂

Everyone on set never gave Madrid a chance

I love how Stevie is an angry old man most of the time and, calls someone out for same things then gets mad because he disagrees with Shaka 😂 Pick a side man!

Winning the 15th UCL title will be a great send off for Modric.... Hala Madrid 🤍👑🏆

Real Madrid didn't get battered. They dealt with the pressure comfortably.

When you play Real Madrid, you don't just play against the 11 on the field. You play against the history, the gigantic aura that screams champions, Di Stefano, Gento, Puskas, Zidane, Carlos, Figo, Cristiano, Benzema.. That kicks in, the winning mentality. That is huge in games like these. Plus, people tend to forget that Real Madrid is top of La Liga, in the UCL Semi, won the Spanish Supercup, without a number 9, with the backline and GK shuffled throughout the season. Ancelotti gets so little credit. Praising Pep, Klopp, Mou is all fine, but Ancelotti deserves the same attention or even above. The guy is a legend, textbook for future coaches.

British will do everything but give Real Madrid credit for the win against City. They won the game!

Real Madrid showed man city Levels

Stevie is so mad that bottle city didn’t go through. Well guess what Madrid is Madrid and this is their COMPETITION. Never ever doubt them ever!!!!

I swear they do this every time. Trying to neglect the aspect of good defending when the attacking team can't break them down as if a big team isn't allowed to play defensively.

Stupid question. People only chose to win, no one ever choses to lose

Pep makes excuses every time City lose

People often overlook a team which is capable of changing their tactics against different opponents well done Don Carlo

City fan here, Real didn’t play pretty football but props to them for winning in the end by being relentless and strategic.

Possession and Tiki Taka has gotten old and proven to be ineffective!

Lunin said that they decided before that he would stay in middle for Bernardo Silva!

Champions League games are more for STRATEGY.., Not TACTICS only. STRATEGY is more about the whole game management. TACTICS are more about POSSESSION. Pep is the best Tactical Coach there is and his counterpart at Madrid is the best Strategic Manger in Football. Champions League being more about Strategy Real Madrid Coach has more

Seeing Stevie animated (11:58) is kinda hilarious 🤣 😂 😭

All you commentators are haters and you were all supporting city shame on you now for being soft

The side of "they asked to come off" that jumps out at me is that Pep presents himself as so passive in the matter. He's the manager, and the manager makes those decisions. Plus, he's maybe the most micromanaging manager around; his players get chewed out if they do anything outside of his plan, but he talks like they told him they wanted out of the game and he was helpless to do anything but make the subs.

Lunin clearly stated in a post match interview that they expected that at least on city player will go for the middle/panenka it before the shootouts started and because of his game type, they decided to gamble on Bernado Silva. The rest is history. Experience and hardwork won it for Madrid

unreal night....tears down my face....lunin got the last laugh against silva that penalty was personal.......lunin hometown in a war zone and my guy cold as ice