‘Haaland’s 6th Goal’ Manchester City Beats Copenhagen and Advances to UCL Quarterfinals for 7 Consecutive Seasons
Real Madrid beats Leipzig by 1 goal and joins quarterfinals.
Manchester City of the English Professional Football Premier League (EPL) defeated Copenhagen (Denmark) and advanced to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League (UCL).
Manchester City defeated Copenhagen 3-1 in the 2023-2024 UCL Round of 16 home game held at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England on the 7th (Korean time).
Manchester City, who won 3-1 in the first away game on the 14th of last month, defeated Copenhagen with a total of 6-2 in the first and second games and advanced to the quarterfinals. 파워볼실시간
Manchester City showed off its potential by reaching the UCL quarterfinals for seven consecutive seasons starting from the 2017-2018 season.
Among them, it won its first ever championship last season, and was runner-up in the 2020-2021 season.
Manchester City, which reached the top of the UCL for the first time last season and achieved a treble (three crowns in a single season) along with the EPL and the English Football Association (FA) Cup, continues to have the potential to dominate all three competitions this season as well.
In the EPL, they are in second place (62 points), only one point behind leader Liverpool (63 points), and are about to reach the quarterfinals in the UCL and FA Cup.
Manchester City, who had Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, and Phil Foden on the bench ahead of the weekend's EPL away game against Liverpool, secured an early victory with consecutive goals from Manuel Akanji in the 5th minute of the game and Julian Alvarez in the 9th minute. Got it.
In the 29th minute of the first half, Copenhagen's Mohamed Elyounoussi scored a comeback goal, but in extra time in the first half, Erling Haaland received a long ball near the halfway line inside the penalty area and scored a key goal with a shot that penetrated between three defenders.
Haaland, who is the leading scorer in the EPL with 18 goals this season, scored his 6th goal in the UCL, becoming the joint top scorer with Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) and Harry Kane (Bayern Munich).
With this victory, Man City continued its remarkable upward trend of being undefeated in 30 UCL home games (28 wins, 2 draws).
According to Opta, Manchester City is the second team in the Champion League to be undefeated in more than 30 home games, following Barcelona (Spain), which did not lose once in 38 games between 2013 and 2020.
Real Madrid (Spain) also succeeded in advancing to the quarterfinals.
Real Madrid drew 1-1 in the second leg home game against Leipzig (Germany) held at the Santiago Bernabeu on this day, but thanks to a 1-0 away win in the first leg, they took a 2-1 lead on aggregate score.
Real Madrid, which has won the UCL history a record 14 times, is aiming to regain the top spot after two years after the 2021-2022 season.
Real Madrid took the lead with Vinicius Junior's first goal in the 20th minute of the second half of the day, but was chased down three minutes later by allowing Billy Orban to score, but maintained their one-goal lead in total until the end.
Following Bayern Munich (Germany) and Paris Saint-Germain (France) the day before, Manchester City and Real Madrid joined today, and now four of the UCL quarterfinals have been decided.
Next week's round of 16 second leg between Porto (Portugal)-Arsenal (England), Naples (Italy)-Barcelona (Spain), Inter Milan (Italy)-Atletico Madrid (Spain), and Eindhoven (Netherlands)-Dortmund (Germany). This remains.
The UCL quarterfinals are scheduled to be held next month, and the matchup will be decided on the 15th.
