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On Friday two matches of the 1/8 finals play-off resumed football Champions League. Ended two of the four postponed due to the pandemic in the early stages of the confrontation, which met Manchester city and real Madrid, Juventus and Lyon. The English club after winning the Madrid has won on the home field with the same score 2:1. His opponent in the quarterfinals unexpectedly became Lyon, who lost in the Turin 1:2, but thanks to a goal on the road took precedence over the two rounds.Champions League, draw of which was broken due to a pandemic coronavirus in March in the 1/8 finals, came back. It’s already August, but the tournament organizers decided that it is better late than never. Although several participants were in a very unusual situation, given that in four pairs between the first and return matches has been more than five months. It is from these plays has resumed Champions League, which then, in the period from 12 to 23 August, will be completed in an accelerated program format the Final eight.However, for clubs that failed to finish the showdown in the spring, this protracted finale, in fact, has already begun. As said before the match with “Manchester city” the main trainer of “real” Zinedine Zidane, “if we want to reach the end, we have to play four finals, and the first will be on Friday.” Indeed the value of the game in Manchester it is difficult to overestimate, because it clashed the two contenders for the trophy. And the odds had city won real Madrid at the start of this confrontation — 2:1. Besides, the return match missed due to suspension, captain of the Royal club Sergio Ramos. The owners also did not avoid human losses — in particular, they are missing the injured Sergio Aguero, but they were a little bit better position.Another thing is that real Madrid looked very convincing after the restart of the season and won another championship title in the national championship, winning ten games in a row and ahead of Barcelona by five points. And Zidane has said that his team is well prepared for a return visit to Manchester. However, guests, who must have scored at least two goals, quite passively started the match, more rolling the ball in their own half. In the end in the ninth minute just passed goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois with the defenders own penalty area led to the fact that the striker “city” Gabriel Jesus “robbed” of Raphael Varane and made the transfer rahimu Sterling into the empty net. The England forward, of course, did not miss, and manchesterze consolidated their advantage in the two meetings. As they say in such cases, the “real” shot itself in the foot. However, like anything catastrophic would have happened — he still had sabeva��s at least twice, to at least to bring it to extra time. Gradually they recovered and on 28 minutes equalised. Played with the captain’s armband real Madrid’s Karim Benzema after the sighting of a strike, but is off Ederson, with the second presentation, when Rodrigo’s hitting the ball exactly on his head, broke through the Brazilian goalkeeper.Curiously, at the end of the first half real Madrid again, almost finished with his penalty. Courtois was lucky that Phil Foden in that episode did not punish him for his grave mistake. Generally city attacked more often and sharper, so guests are lucky, in principle, and they kept the chances to win. Right after sterling missed a one-on-one with Courtois, this time the Belgian saved the team. Soon they ran into another attack, which just miraculously ended in a goal. Ilkay Gundogan give clearly unnecessary and awkward pass to Sterling. By the middle of the second half, real Madrid is still active, and Benzema had chances to score. However, the “city” moments were still fatter. Guests continued to help out Courtois, until on 68 minutes, it again was not framed Lizard. Defender unsuccessfully threw the ball to the goalkeeper, and agile BOM Jesus sent him into the net. Now real Madrid have truly painted themselves into a corner, especially that the game had as a whole suffers. Manchesterze quite confidently controlled the match until the final whistle and made, probably legitimate success.Before the return match Juventus against Lyon in Turin minimal advantage was on the side of the French club, who defeated Italian giants home 1:0. However, since the first meeting of the rivals in the balance of this pair has changed, and not in favor of going for a long time remained without serious match practice in connection with the early termination of the championship of France. Over the past few months they spent only a series of friendly matches and only one official, recently, they lost to PSG in the final of the French League Cup. The pause was so long that during this time has expired hire the author of a solving goal in gate “Juve” Hatches of Tusar, who had already served in the German “Hertha”. However, at the same time to recover after severe injuries, captain Lyon Memphis Depay, who was not involved in the first meeting. Meanwhile, Juventus have successfully played the national championship and the ninth time in a row became Champions of the country. However, in the end they got complacent and suffered three defeats in four games. In addition, they injured Paulo Dibala, who was named the most valuable player in Serie A last season. But Cristiano Ronaldo, according to coach Juventus, Maurizio Sarri, are now in order. The Portuguese in the result scored twice, only his team sensationally knocked out of the Champions League. In this protevascoanii decided goal, “Lyon” on the road. In the opening stages of the return match against the hosts was appointed obvious a penalty, which was coolly executed Depay. Under the curtain of the first half, Ronaldo scored with a shot from the 11-meter mark. On 60 minutes he brought Juve ahead, but for the quarter-finals was not enough. No matter how hard the champion of Italy, who had abandoned the battle even unhealthy Dibalo, the third goal he failed to score.Alexander Ilyin