Discreet and instinctive, Bernardo Silva turns out to be the goalscorer of the big nights

Discreet and instinctive, Bernardo Silva turns out to be the goalscorer of the big nights

The Portuguese scored two goals in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid (4-0) on Wednesday evening.

Jack Grealish, Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne… The danger came from everywhere to the people of Madrid, who overwhelmed the turf of Manchester City in the Champions League semi-final return, Wednesday 17 May (4-0). Without making a noise, however, without being the quickest or strongest, it was the indefensible Bernardo Silva, on his right flank, who knocked out the Spanish rearguard. In the expression of his intelligence, the Portuguese managed to epitomize cityzen’s dominance by scoring the first two Mancunian goals.

Completely alone, Kevin De Bruyne found him, the Portuguese opened the scoring for the first time with the eighth shot in just 23 minutes for Cityzens. He was opportunistic and well placed, then widened the gap, with a header skilfully placed just beyond the reach of Thibaut Courtois and David Alaba (37′). “On the first goal, I see Alaba in front of me, and I thought he was going to want to cover the second post, so I shot at the first. Then on the second, I said to myself Alaba would jump for the first but if I put the ball in slowly, he wouldn’t have the momentum to jump a second time.”analyzes after the match, on the Canal + microphone, the gray cells are still in a state of turmoil.

“gets the game”

With his grip on the ball and his ball penetrations, the former Monaco sometimes made Eduardo Camavinga dance and took advantage of the freedom left by opposing defenders. Enough to keep up his average in the first leg. “My performance in Madrid was not what I would have hoped for and I wanted to make up for that, because I blame myself after the first leg.‘, he was interacting with the BT Sports microphone.

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A man of great nights, Bernardo Silva has scored his last nine Champions League goals in knockout matches. “He’s one of the best players I’ve coached in my life. He’s special. Bernardo is a very important player in this type of game, he can play in midfield, wrong 9, recently scored a lot of goals.”His coach, Pep Guardiola, commented after Mancunian’s victory in the first leg of the quarter-finals against Bayern Munich (1-0). You can ask him to play in such a position, he understands everything … Bernardo is a football player. What does it mean ? He will play everywhere because he understands the game. Bernardo has the ability to read them.”.

The Portuguese is so essential to his coach that he has played all six of this season’s Champions League knockout matches, without ever being substituted. However, the precious midfielder is not closing the door on an exit from the Mancunian club. “I’m 28, I’ll be 29 this summer, and I have two years left on my contract with Manchester City. My contract ends on the 31st. I don’t hide from you that my goal in the coming years, if something good happens elsewhere, is probably to leave for a new project. Advertised in the columns of the Portuguese newspaper Record, in January. Interest from PSG was rumoured, but Bernardo Silva was quizzed about it on Wednesday night: “We’ll see what happens.”

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