Real Madrid 3-3 Man City: All of the goals

This is becoming quite the occurence, isn’t it, Real Madrid and Manchester City?

Los Blancos and the Cityzens have been drawn together in the Champions League for a third-successive season, and on every occasion they have delivered the goods.

The first leg of their quarter-final on Tuesday night ended 3-3, thanks in part to some of the best goals you’ll see all year.

Here are the six strikes that flew in at the Santiago Bernabeu, ranked.

After Madrid went a goal down inside the opening two minutes, they managed to pull level when Eduardo Camavinga’s strike took a huge deflection off of Ruben Dias.

Stefan Ortega was completely wrong-footed and City were pegged back by a goal out of nothing.

Minutes later, Madrid took a 2-1 lead at the end of a swift breakaway.

Vinicius Junior picked out compatriot Rodrygo with a searching ball in behind City’s high line, with the winger skipping past Manuel Akanji before slowing down and then poking an effort back off the Swiss defender and beyond the helpless Ortega.

Pep Guardiola bemoaned the absence of Kyle Walker in the weeks leading up to this tie for this reason – only he has the pace to stop such Madrid’s attacks.

Alright, let’s get down to the serious goals.

The success of Madrid’s season so far has been underpinned by squad players stepping up and more regular faces playing out of position due to their injury crisis.

But on a stage like this, that strength became a glaring weakness. Midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni had to start at centre-back and hauled down Jack Grealish to pick up a 39th-second booking, which rules him out of next week’s second leg.

From the resulting free-kick, stand-in goalkeeper Andriy Lunin was beaten by a sneaky effort from Bernardo Silva at the near post to give City an incredibly early lead with a fine piece of ingenuity.