Pep Guardiola said he needed to emphasize to his players they had beaten Real Madrid 4-3 in a Champions League exemplary on Tuesday in spite of the failure of not killing off their elimination round tie at the Etihad.
Kevin De Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva were on track for Guardiola's men, who held a two-goal lead multiple times.
Be that as it may, Karim Benzema's twofold and a splendid individual exertion from Vinicius Junior gave Madrid any desire for another popular Champions League fightback at the Santiago Bernabeu on May 4.
Guardiola deplored allowing Liverpool to get away "alive" in the Premier League title race after a 2-2 draw at the Etihad nine days prior and will have comparative second thoughts after a rankling opening that might have seen City go 4-0 up inside thirty minutes.
"I need to attempt to persuade to my players that we dominated the match and we need to go to Bernabeu to play as we did today," said Guardiola.
"It doesn't make any difference assuming we would have won by one goal or four, in the Bernabeu you need to show who you are in any case there is zero chance. It is a decent test for us."
Madrid, the record 13-time European heroes, were playing in their 30th elimination round to City's third, yet the English bosses satisfied their tag as pre-tie top choices right off the bat.
Just 92 seconds had passed before the Madrid rearguard was penetrated by Riyad Mahrez's fast feet and ideal cross for De Bruyne to stoop and head past Thibaut Courtois.
Jesus jumped to make it 2-0 after only 10 minutes when David Alaba neglected to manage De Bruyne's cross.
"We began the game seriously, we were too delicate in surrendering the goals," said Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti.
"After that the group showed what they have shown as of late, an incredible response.
"We need to guard better. Assuming we safeguard better in the seocnd leg we'll win. On the off chance that we don't, we will be out."
The Spanish heroes choose were without Casemiro and his nonattendance displayed as City slice through midfield on the counter-assault voluntarily.
Guardiola was angry with Mahrez after he egotistically crushed into the side-netting with Foden anticipating the cross for a tap-in.
Minutes after the fact it was Foden who was at real fault for squandering a wonderful opportunity when he hauled wide one more pinpoint De Bruyne through ball.
BENZEMA ROUSES MADRID
Benzema hauled Madrid resurrected to see off Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea in the past two rounds and again rose to his side's salvage before halftime.
The Frenchman padded in his 40th goal of the time off the post from Ferland Mendy's cross.
"We never surrendered," said Benzema. "Now and again you need to smile and bear it and that's what we did. City are an extraordinary group however continued to try sincerely and got the three goals."
However, Madrid's great work in steadying the boat towards the finish of the main half was scattered in one more sluggish beginning after the break.
Mahrez hit the post when one-on-one with Courtois before Dani Carvajal impeded Foden's development on the line.
Fernandinho had to nominate at right-back in the wake of supplanting the harmed John Stones in the primary half.
Furthermore, the City skipper played a significant part to play in two goals quickly at one or the flip side.
Right off the bat, he chose Foden to reestablish City's two-goal lead.
Be that as it may, the 36-year-old revealed how old he might have been as Vinicius ran clear of his Brazilian countryman from the midway line prior to opening past Ederson.
City kept on making chances at a disturbing rate for Ancelotti however it took something unique when they did at last get a fourth.
Oleksandr Zinchenko was fouled on the edge of the area, however Romanian official Istvan Kovacs played benefit and Silva whipped into the top corner.
Again City neglected to take care of the tie as Mahrez was inches away from tracking down the furthest corner from the tightest of points.
However, there was a last wind a little ways from time when Aymeric Laporte took care of inside the area.
Benzema was the coolest man in the arena as he chipped the spot-kick down the center to leave the tie on a blade edge went to the Spanish capital.
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