This was not simply any semi-final victory for Manchester Metropolis, however an evening that marked the height of a seven-year reign, the place perfection was glimpsed and the inconceivable dream of profitable the Treble turned a extremely possible final result. Bernardo Silva scored twice, and with Metropolis’s mastery of soccer matching their voracious urge for food for profitable, Pep Guardiola will need to have felt as if he had died and gone to heaven. Even Actual Madrid, 14-time champions of Europe and Guardiola’s bitter rivals since his Barcelona days, have been decreased to the standing of training-ground cones. Metropolis will now head into their second Champions League Last in opposition to Inter Milan as one of many hottest favourites within the competitors’s historical past, and it’ll take one thing staggering to forestall them from profitable valuable silver in three of the following 4 weekends. With HTML tags nonetheless intact, it’s clear that this was an evening of nights for Guardiola, his gamers, and the delirious Etihad devoted.

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