What if Kylian Mbappé's Golden Ball dreams suddenly fly away on April 8? Real Madrid was slightly favorite of its Champions League quarter -final against Arsenal but took an incredible flight Tuesday evening in a trance Stadium Emirates. The Gunners won 3-0, worn by a fantastic double on Declan Rice, and the Merengues will have to achieve an improbable raised
During the return round to Bernabéu.
Carlo Ancelotti's formation took the water during its trip to London. Real of Italian “mister” is never a collectively brilliant, often recovering from individual exploits. There were, yes. Thibaut Courtois has indeed delayed the deadline by carrying out several high class parades in the first period. But Mbappé and Vinicius, associated in front in a 4-4-2 (Rodrygo and Jude Bellingham defending on the sides), were unable to make the difference on their own.
Real had a handful of offensive situations and it was Mbappé who wasted. The captain of the Blues did not manage to frame alone in front of David Raya, even if he was finally offside (23rd), before hitting on the Spanish porter (32nd). He is three matches without shaking the nets and, if he does not put the superhero costume on return, his season at 35, 40 or 45 goals will not be worth much.
Mbappé silent, Camavonga excluded!
Arsenal awaited the time of play to unlock the situation. And how! Declan Rice sent a first missile to courteous goals to open the scoring (58th). Ten minutes later, when the Belgian goalkeeper had saved Real from a double parade in the meantime (68th), the midfielder of the Gunners and the English selection again struck hard to find the right skylight (70th)! Amazing. The former West Ham player is the first player to write a double free kick in a direct elimination in LDC!
The title holder (without Mbappé) did not react even a third goal! Mikel Merino sent his left strike to the bottom of the nets on a center of Myles Lewis-Skelly (75th). Standed due to the suspension of Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavanga, a little lost on the ground, first received a suspensive yellow card for the return meeting before squarely receiving a second warning synonymous with exclusion in additional time (94th). The return of Tchouameni to the eleven will not do everything.
