Manchester City will play in the final of the Champions League (June 10 in Istanbul) after defeating Real Madrid 4-0 in the second leg of the continental tournament this Wednesday, boosted by a double from Bernardo Silva.

Two years after the defeat by Chelsea, the goals of the Portuguese (23, 37 minutes), Julián Álvarez (90+1) and Militao’s own goal (76) return the “Citizens” to the final of the Champions League, where they will meet Inter Milan, who the day before eliminated AC Milan.

Pep Guardiola is a Champions League finalist with Manchester City, a ‘clone’ of Barça

This was written on Wednesday by the main Spanish newspapers in their digital editions of the beating by which Manchester City eliminated Real Madrid.

AS: “A complete defeat in Manchester. City, overwhelmingly superior, ends the dream of ‘The Fifteenth’ even without the need for Erling Haaland. Thibaut Courtois avoided a greater evil. Karim Benzema, missing. City was better in everything. He recovered by and large, deploying on the outside with Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish, pushing with his midfielders and De Bruyne, Real Madrid found him everywhere he looked. Carlo Ancelotti’s team was an underdog supported by a guardian angel, Courtois.

Brand: “City broke the champion. An unquestionable victory for Guardiola’s team. There is no sign of Real Madrid, who barely performed on the fateful night. There was no fight. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City toppled the king of Europe with all the laws. For football, ferocity, order and talent, beat Real Madrid, which could not even be measured. Inferior in midfield, where games and titles are decided, he remained on a decent score thanks to Courtois, who prevented three Haaland goals with anthological saves. City’s global supremacy was such that it didn’t even need the services of a gunner.

The world of sports: “The disaster that Real Madrid was about to experience at the Etihad Stadium was visible from the kick-off. Manchester City was the absolute owner of the ball, which Real Madrid neither had nor wanted, they only dealt with defense. The last part of the match was a chronicle of the announced death of Real Madrid in the Champions LeagueThe last part of the match was a chronicle of the announced death of Real Madrid in the Champions League. After one of the worst first parts of the season. Real Madrid decided that he could start playing at the Etihad”.

Earth: “Manchester City teaches Real Madrid a lesson. Josep Guardiola’s team, which was stopped only by Courtois, swept the most timid champion in centuries and will play the final in Istanbul against Inter. City gave him a history lesson. A bathroom for a champion, who didn’t say a word on English soil. Regular Royal. A futuristic city on its way to its second final, the summit in Istanbul. It was useless for Courtois to stop Haaland, that footballer on the outside who left the tie dry. He gave the same Incredibly flat Real. A team, that of Pep Guardiola, with the ring of authority. Never mind Manchester City sleepy and indecisive from the first leg. On the way back, a team with tonnage, sharp ”.

Sport: “Guardiola’s city staged a change of monarchy by smashing Madrid. Manchester City have confirmed that that moment has come. The great Real Madrid in the last five years succumbed to the English in a match that should be read as a turning point for both. The Whites will say goodbye to the excellent generation they deserve, and Guardiola’s City will try to inaugurate a triumphant saga in Europe in Istanbul. Pep patiently and brilliantly connected this team for seven years, seven seasons in which this Madrid, that of Ancelotti and Zidane, was crowned four times in the Champions League. Final victory measures the actual distance between them. Between the present and the past”.

World: “Manchester City destroyed the star of Real Madrid and will play in the final of the Champions League. He was thrown onto the canvas by a superior City, started by Bernardo Silva and driven by Guardiola and the desire to lift their first continental crown in Istanbul against Inter. (4-0). The death of the star is the last act. It sheds its outer layers, collapses into a white dwarf, cools, becomes almost invisible, tries to gather fuel with its last breath of life and culminates in the process in a cosmic explosion: a supernova. At the Etihad in Manchester, the Real Madrid of Luka Modric, Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos, the Real Madrid of five European Cups in eight seasons, the historic Real Madrid, the Real Madrid of the future of Vinicius, Rodrygo, Camavinga and Valverde bid farewell to the Champions League in an explosion rarely seen in its history. recent history. (D)