UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 3-2 in the first leg of the playoffs

In the last minute, Jude Bellingham scored a decisive goal to give Real Madrid a 3-2 win against Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League playoffs. The Real Madrid team will enter the second-leg match now on February 20 with a one-goal lead. The team that wins in the playoffs will make it to the last-16 round of the Champions League. After this defeat, the problems of former champion Manchester City have increased. All three goals from Real Madrid came in the last 30 minutes of the match. On the other hand, Manchester City missed despite taking the lead.

Manchester City took the lead over Real Madrid twice in this match, but the Spanish club equalized every time. Arling Holland gave City the lead in the 19th minute of the match, but Kylian Mbappe scored in the 60th minute to level the score at 1-1. Holland then converted a penalty in the 80th minute to make the score 2-1, but then Brahim Diaz scored in the 86th, and Jude Bellingham scored in injury time to give the team a 3-2 win.

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said that the match was very tough and we had chances on some occasions. In the end, we were defeated. This is not the first time, it happens many times. Mistakes happen in big matches. It is difficult to manage it. Players make decisions in the moment, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. We arrived with a result at the last minute, but we could not maintain it.