Real Madrid vs Man City LIVE

Pressure mounted on Xabi Alonso on Wednesday as his Real Madrid side were beaten 2-1 by Man City at the Bernabeu. It was a second consecutive home defeat for Los Blancos after an eight-man Madrid were beaten by Celta Vigo at the weekend, and reports in Spain pre-match had claimed Alonso could be sacked if he failed to beat the team of Pep Guardiola, his coaching mentor.

Things began well for Madrid. Rodrygo was lively from the off and capitalised on his early impetus by opening the scoring shortly before the half-hour mark. City responded promptly, though. Nico O’Reilly tapped in after a goalmouth scramble to level the tie less than ten minutes after the opener, before Erling Haaland scored from twelve yards to put Guardiola’s side ahead at the break.

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