Real Madrid vs Man City live score, result, updates, lineups as Foden, Gvardiol stunners put Champions League holders ahead

Real Madrid hit the front after a remarkable start to their Champions League quarterfinal against Manchester City at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Madrid were hammered 4-0 in the second leg of last season’s semifinal at the Etihad Stadium, where Bernardo Silva scored a first-half brace. When the same played squeezed a second-minute free-kick beyond Andriy Lunin, the capacity 85,000 crowd under the revamped venue’s closed roof might have feared the worst.

But Carlo Ancelotti’s men were back on terms in the 12th minute when Edouardo Camavinga’s speculative strike took a decisive deflection off Ruben Dias. Los Blancos led two minutes later when Rodrygo stormed forward off the left and his shot knicked off Manuel Akanji to deceive Stefan Ortega in the City goal.

The Premier League champions continued to dominate possession for the rest of the half but they lacked cutting edge, with Kevin De Bruyne consigned to the bench through illness. Madrid also frequently had joy exploiting City’s high line, which looked vulnerable to Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior’s pace and trickery, especially without Kyle Walker’s recovery pace as a counterweight.

The Sporting News is following Real Madrid vs. Man City live, providing score updates, commentary and highlights as they happen.

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Real Madrid vs Man City live score

 
2nd Half
Goalscorers
Real Madrid
3
Dias (OG)12′, Rodrygo 14′, Valverde 79′
Man City
3
Silva 2′ Foden 66′, Gvardiol 68′
Lineups:

Real Madrid (4-3-1-2 right to left): 13. Andriy Lunin (GK) — 2. Dani Carvajal, 18. Aurelien Tchouameni, 22. Antonio Rudiger, 23. Ferland Mendy — 15. Federico Valverde, 12. Edouardo Camavinga, 8. Toni Kroos (10. Luka Modric) — 5. Jude Bellingham — 7. Vinicius Jr, 11 (14. Joselu). Rodrygo (21. Brahim Diaz).

Man City (4-2-3-1 right to left): 18. Stefan Ortega (GK) — 25. Manuel Akanji, 5. John Stones, 3. Ruben Dias, 24. Josko Gvardiol — 16. Rodri, 8. Mateo Kovacic  — 20. Bernardo Silva, 47. Phil Foden (19. Julian Alvarez), 10. jack Grealish — 9. Erling Haaland.

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Real Madrid vs Man City live updates, highlights, and commentary

90th minute: There will be four added minutes. Are these two shaking on a draw for next week? I wouldn’t bet on it.

88th minute: Modric, who has produced a little gem of a cameo, floats a delightful ball towards fellow substitute Joselu at the far post. Stones bravely clears behind. Alvarez gets out to close down Carvajal when the corner is half cleared and the veteran right-back clatters his shot way off target.

86th minute: Foden wriggles away from Camavinga, who catches him on the back of the ankle. Grealish runs out of road and it’s a Madrid goal kick. Foden still down. While he receives treatment, Joselu comes on for Vinicius. Alvarez is ready to come on for City, presumably for Foden.

78th minute:  GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Federico Valverde!!!!!

WOWWWWW!!! Another absolute screamer. Maybe the best of the bunch. Vinicius floats a ball across the City box and Valverde, who has been at his industrious best tonight, creams an unstoppable volley past Ortega. Wonderful goal.

75th minute: Gvardiol having a full Roy of the Rovers (or the Croatian equivalent) just now. A horrid pass to let Madrid break and he recovers with a booming tackle on Madrid substitute Brahim.

68th minute: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Josko Gvardiol!!!!!

Oh my word! Josko Gvardiol has his first goal for Manchester City and what a time to get it. Grealish set the ball back to the Croatia defender, whose first touch was poor. That made his mind up for him, though, and he lashed a right-footed effort into the far corner. What a game this is!

66th minute: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Phil Foden!!!!!

Is he ever warming to his task!!!!! Stones joins the attack, slips a pass inside to Foden on the edge of the D. He absolutely obliterates one into the top corner. That’s magnificent.

65th minute: Foden wriggles into a little bit of room. Can’t get the shot away effectively but finally seems to be warming to his task tonight. Madrid look to break quickly, of course they do. Valverde is on his bike but Ortega mops up.

63rd minute: Ohh, careful! Kroos is a little untidy with his challenge on Silva in the box. The City player stays on his feet, play switches to Grealish who wins a corner. It’s taken short, not particularly effectively and Foden is crowded out.

61st minute: Gvardiol gives it away and Madrid can have another look at their foes. Foden and Akanji stick to the task well and the latter dispossesses Vinicius. Valverde then has the sort of shot he will hope no one ever speaks of again.

60th minute: Foden in off the right, lets fly and it’s right at Lunin. Now Silva right back at Madrid, he opts against looking for Haaland and Lunin saves again.

59th minute: Camavinga clatters through Foden, play on says the ref. The City man is seething. The attack ends when Rodri uncharacteristically spins a pass out of play.

56th minute: Lovely control by Rodrygo, who releases Vinicius. ohhhh he should score. Ortega hung back and left the Brazil star with a decision to make and he lashed over.

54th minute: Chance for Bellingham. Foden fizzes a daft pass at Rodri that bounces off the Spain midfielder’s shins. Bellingham is on the scene, twisting and turning before dragging a shot wide.

52nd minute: Silva marauding again, a shimmying dribble that ends when Rudiger thunders into another of those tackles that thrill the locals. He almost makes a mess of his next task, a long ball forward towards Haaland, but he manages to mop up.

51st minute: Silva’a free-kick not up to the standard of his first half one as it tamely hits the bottom of the wall.

50th minute: Dias finds a fabulous pass to release Foden down the left channel. The cross is a bit floaty, though and Mendy heads clear before Haaland can make his presence felt. City go again and Grealish if fouled by Vinicius, who gives him an earful. I’m not sure how good Jack’s Portuguese is.

49th minute: Silva, who’s easily been City’s best player so far, orchestrates an attack that concludes wth Grealish cutting into his right foot and slapping one over. De Bruyne is warming up with a cluster of subs.

46th minute: We’re back underway. No changes for either side yet. I wonder how much Kevin De Bruyne has got in him/whether the tablets have kicked in yet…

Halftime: The final minute of the half featured a long period of City possession following by Madrid playing through them on the counter. That’s been the pattern that has led to a very watchable game and leaves both coaches with work to do.

44th minute: Grealish slips a pass to Rodri, who crosses from the left channel towards Haaland at the far post. He’s all over the back of Rudiger though and that’s a goal kick.

42nd minute: Rodrygo on the run again, City backpedalling again. Once more Ortega’s positioning is on point and he pouches the shot. It’s through traffic on the right of that City defence at the moment.

39th minute: Rodrygo comes off second best in a challenge with Akanji and needs some treatment. City continue their attack until Foden produces an overly ambitious shot from the right flank or a terrible cross.

37th minute: Bellingham steps in to dispossess his international teammate Foden. Madrid are set traps very effectively right now. Vinicius has room to run again, is fouled by Akanji and that’s a yellow card.

36th minute: Bellingham dishes out a bit of retribution on Dias. Which is all well and good but if he gets booked he’ll join Tchouameni in missing the second leg.

34th minute: Dias thunders into a hard but fair challenge on Bellingham, who stays down. City play on but Rodri gives the ball away uncharacteristically. End to end suits Madrid, who fly past the prone Bellingham before Vinicius fouls Dias.

33rd minute: Chances at both ends! Grealish exchanges passes with Rodri and Tchouameni gets a vital block in. Madrid break at pace, Vinicius sizes up Dias and lays back to Rodrygo, who clatters over from outside the box.

30th minute: Rodrygo cuts inside and fires at Ortega. Guardiola definitely has work to do with his side stopping Madrid’s flying attacks. Here they are back on the ball though, in their comfort zone. When City don’t have it they look far too vulnerable and you’d think there are more goals in this for the hosts.

27th minute: After all that mayhem we’ve had a calmer period with Madrid willing to soak up City pressure and exploit any openings in transition. Without De Bruyne’s incisiveness in the final third, that feels like a pretty solid ploy. 

20th minute: City in possession but Madrid hustle them back into their own half. Dias fizzes a ball towards Haaland and Rudiger manhandles him. The Bernabeu crowd loved that.

19th minute: Valverde cuts inside and lets fly. A routine save for Ortega, who clutches the ball to his chest, but from a City point of view the holders looked worryingly open once again.

14th minute: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Rodrygo!!!!!!

What a turnaround from Madrid! City are caught up the pitch and Rodrygo has room to tear towards goal. Akanji gets back goalside but that means he simply provides another deflection for another Madrid goal.

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14th minute: Foden finds Grealish but his outside of the foot cross is easy for Lunin.

12th minute: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Ruben Dias (OG)!!!!

Madrid back on terms with a decent slice of fortune. A couple of sloppy giveaways from City allow the hosts to build a little bit of pressure. Grealish allows Camavinga to cut inside, his shot pings off Dias and leaves Ortega with no chance.

7th minute: Chance for Haaland! The angle is against him and Lunin completes a fairly routine save this time. Madrid can’t get out as Grealish saunters into the box and has a shot blocked.

6th minute: Madrid looking for a swift response, Valverde driving through midfield. There’s more room in there right now than either manager will be happy with. He tried to feed Vinicius, Gvardiol cracks a clearance against the Brazil forward and it flies out for a goal kick.

2nd minute: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Bernardo Silva!!!!

Real Madrid’s tormentor from last season has done it again. Silva clips a left-footed shot around the left-hand side of the wall and there has to be questions over Lunin’s part of that, as he gets a palm to the ball and can’t stop it going in. If De Bruyne had been fit to start, he’s have probably taken that instead. Funny old game.

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BERNADO SILVA STUNS THE BERNBÉU IN JUST TWO MINUTES ⚡

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1st minute: Vinicius gets straight to work in the absence of his old sparring partner Kyle Walker. The cross towards Bellingham is cleared. Tchouameni then flies into Grealish at the other end and is booked after 42 seconds! He’ll miss the next leg. More to the point, he has 90 minutes on a yellow card at centre-back potentially. All the best.

5 mins before kickoff: Here come the teams. Roof closes, let’s get loud. You should be able to really hear the City fans booing the Champions League anthem, for example.

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25 mins before kickoff: In terms of looking for reasons why Madrid can avoid the hiding they endured against City last season, you need look no further than Jude Bellingham. The England midfielder has been a revelation for Los Blancos, racking up 20 goals in all competitions. He’ll look to carry that threat to City tonight, who he scored against twice while at Borussia Dortmund.

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55 mins before kickoff: A little bit more on that surprise Manchester City team news. City have briefed journalists in the Santiago Bernabeu and the line is that Kevin De Bruyne is feeling unwell. In what appears to have been a late change of plan, Guardiola has reverted to what he cherishes more than anything else on these occasions – the midfielder who can give him the “extra pass”. On other times De Bruyne has been unavailable this season, and there was a five-month recovery from hamstring surgery, the City manager tended to favour Julian Alvarez in an attacking midfield role. You sense Guardiola felt that would have been too bold a move in a high-stakes game.

1 hr 10 mins before kickoff: Pep Guardiola springs one of his Champions League night surprises by leaving Kevin De Bruyne on the bench. That means a start for Mateo Kovacic alongside Rodri in central midfield and Phill Foden as the No. 10 behind Erling Haaland. Kovacic’s Croatia team-mate Josko Gvardiol has passed a late fitness test to start at left-back, while Stefan Ortega keeps his place in goal ahead of Ederson.

1 hr 45 mins before kickoff: The Real Madrid team is in. Carlo Ancelotti loves an early team news drop for a big Champions League game. If anything, he’s cutting in a bit fine by his own standards. Aurelin Tchouameni will partner Antonio Rudiger at centre-back, meaning a midfield three of Fede Valverde, Edouardo Camavinga and Toni Kroos, with Jude Bellingham operating behind Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior as expected.

2 hours before kickoff: A further update on those extra security measures being taken outside the stadium in light of the ISIS terror threats against this week’s Champions League quarterfinals. Sky Sports News reports the efforts have been “ramped up” as kickoff approaches, with a large police presence on each corner of the stadium. Police vans are stationed where the teams enter the stadium and manhole covers around the Santiago Bernabeu have been lifted and checked.

Real Madrid granted wish to close Bernabeu roof against Man City

2 hrs 30 mins before kickoff: Madrid are hoping their fans create a hostile atmosphere against Manchester City and raise the roof. Not literally, of course. It didn’t come cheap.

At a meeting with UEFA match delegates and Tuesday’s referee Francois Letexier, Madrid were granted permission to close the roof of their recently renovated stadium. The roof of the now 85,000-capacity stadium was also closed when Madrid face RB Leipzig in the last 16.

However hostile things get at one of European football’s great venues, former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola is keen for City to meet fire with fire.  “We cannot come here just to control the game. We have to come here to try to hurt them, to punish them, to let them feel we are here and score goals. That is what we have to do,” he said. “But we are talking about Real Madrid, who have the ability to control many aspects of the game. We have to impose our game with who we are.”

Champions League matches to go ahead amid ISIS terror threat

3 hrs 15 mins before kickoff: Tonight and tomorrow’s quarterfinals in Madrid and this week’s other Champions League matches in London and Paris will take place against the backdrop of a terror threat purportedly linked to Islamic State (ISIS).

A statement from UEFA said Real Madrid vs. Manchester City, Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain vs. Barcelona would go ahead as planned.

“UEFA is aware of alleged terrorist threats made towards this week’s UEFA Champions League matches and is closely liaising with the authorities at the respective venues,” the statement said. “All matches are planned to go ahead as scheduled with appropriate security arrangements in place.”

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin told Sky News that security would be “considerably reinforced in Paris after the “communication from Islamic State which is particularly aimed at stadiums”.

Paris suffered terror attacks on November 13, 2015, with the Stade de France one of the locations targeted by suicide bombers as France played Germany in an international friendly. ISIS claimed responsibility for the atrocities in which 130 people were killed.

4 hours before kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News live coverage of the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal showdown between 14-time winners Real Madrid and holders Manchester City.

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Real Madrid vs Man City kick off time

This Champions League clash takes place at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, Spain and kicks off on Tuesday, April 9 at 9:00 p.m. local time.

Here’s how that time translates across some of the major territories:

 
Date
Kickoff time
USA
Tue, Apr. 9
3:00 p.m. ET
Canada
Tue, Apr. 9
3:00 p.m. ET
UK
Tue, Apr. 9
8:00 p.m. BST
India
Wed, Apr. 10
12:30 a.m. IST
Real Madrid vs Man City lineups, team news

Carlo Ancelotti is without Thibaut Courtois and David Alaba through injury as City land in Madrid. The veteran Italian coach opted for Aurelien Tchouameni over Nacho at centre-back.

Real Madrid (4-3-1-2 right to left): Lunin (GK) — Carvajal, Tchouameni, Rudiger, Mendy — Valverde, Camavinga, Kroos — Bellingham — Vinicius, Rodrygo.

Real Madrid subs (12): Kepa (GK), Fran, Militao, Nacho, Modric, Joselu, Vazquez, Ceballos, Fran Garcia, Diaz, Guler.

Josko Gvardiol travelled to Madrid and passed a late fitness test after being replaced at halftime during Saturday’s 4-2 win over Crystal Palace. Fellow defenders Kyle Walker and Nathan Ake have not recovered in time, while star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was left on the bench despite scoring twice at the weekend.

Man City (3-2-4-1 right to left): Ortega (GK) — Akanji Stones, Dias, Gvardiol — Rodri, Kovacic  — Silva, Foden, Grealish — Haaland.

Man City subs (12): Ederson (GK), Carson (GK), Doku, De Bruyne, Alvarez, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Susho, Lewis.

Real Madrid vs Man City live stream, TV channel

Here’s how to watch this Champions League match across selected areas of the world’s major regions:

Region
TV
Streaming
USA
UniMas, TUDN
Paramount+,

ViX, Univision NOW, TUDN app, Fubo
Canada
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DAZN

UK
TNT Sports 2
discovery+
India
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JioTV, Sony LIV
USA: Champions League matches are available to stream on Paramount+ (English). New users can currently get a FREE seven-day trial.

ViX and UniMas are the place to go for Spanish subscribers with Fubo also offering streaming access and a FREE trial to new subscribers.

Canada: Every Champions League game streams live on DAZN.

UK: This match will be broadcast on TNT Sports 2 and streamed on discovery+.

India: JioTV and Sony LIV are the live streaming options for this game.

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