Manchester City have reached their second Champions League final after beating Real Madrid 4-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
It was all to play for the Etihad, with the first leg of the semi-final tie finishing 1-1 in the Spanish capital eight days ago. A pulsating first-half performance from Pep Guardiola\u2019s side allowed them to establish a two-goal advantage, with Bernardo Silva hitting a brace.<\/span><\/p>\n From there, City didn\u2019t look back. An own goal from Eder Militao and Julian Alvarez\u2019s late strike settled the tie, with City\u2019s hopes of winning a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble \u2013 emulating Manchester United in 1999 \u2013 more alive than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n City will face Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul on June 10 after the Italian giants defeated local rivals AC Milan 3-0 on aggregate in the other semi-final tie. Here are the main talking points from City\u2019s unforgettable display against the dethroned European champions.<\/span><\/p>\n With a squad as strong as City\u2019s, all eyes were on Guardiola\u2019s starting XI ahead of the second leg. He picked an unchanged team from the 1-1 draw in Madrid last week, with Jack Grealish picked ahead of Phil Foden on the left flank and Riyad Mahrez benched.<\/span><\/p>\n As for Real, Militao returned to Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side after missing the first leg through suspension, with Antonio Rudiger dropping to the bench. That was a brave call, as former Chelsea defender Rudiger put in a stellar display against City\u2019s fierce attack a week ago.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City have reached their second Champions League final after beating Real Madrid 4-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4653,1374,1592,58],"class_list":["post-13525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-champions-league-final","tag-inter-milan","tag-man-city","tag-real-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13527,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions\/13527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}