Manchester City stripped Real Madrid of its European Champions League title, with a landslide 4-0 victory over them in the second leg of the semi-finals on Wednesday in Manchester.

Portuguese Bernardo Silva (23 and 37), Real Madrid's Brazilian defender Eder Militao (76), and Argentine substitute Julian Alvares (90 + 1) scored the goals.

Last week, City snatched a 1-1 draw in the first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu in the Spanish capital.

City will meet in the final, scheduled for Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, on June 10, with Italian Inter, who reached this role at the expense of its neighbor in the same city, Milan, by beating it back and forth 2-0 and 1-0.

This is the second time that City has reached the final match, after losing to compatriot Chelsea 0-1 in 2021.

Manchester City was knocked out by Real Madrid twice in the semi-finals in the 2015-2016 seasons and last season, but the third was fixed this season.

"It's a great evening for us," said Silva, who scored the double and was the best player in the match. "We knew the difficulty of the task, but beating Real Madrid 4-0 at home is wonderful."

"It's a great feeling to be in the final again, and we hope to win the title this time," he added.

As for Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal, he said, "The opponent was stronger than us from the beginning until the end. They silenced us, and the result is the best proof of that. We must congratulate the opposing team, which was better than us."

City hopes to achieve the treble this season, as it is one victory away from crowning the Premier League, and has also reached the FA Cup final, where it will meet its neighbor Manchester United in the final match at Wembley Stadium in London on the third of next June, knowing that United is the team. The only Englishman to achieve this feat was in 1999.

Manchester City did not taste defeat at home in its last 26 matches in the Champions League (24 wins against two draws), as its last loss dates back to September 2018 against Lyon, France. Only Barcelona (38 home matches without losing between 2013 and 2020) and Bayern Munich (29 between 1998 and 2002) achieved a better series in the main continental competition.

On the other hand, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti played his 191st match in the Champions League as coach to win the record, surpassing Manchester United's legendary Scottish coach "Sir" Alex Ferguson (190). Anceloni also played his 50th match on the coaching bench with Real in the continental competition, becoming the second coach to reach this barrier and more with two teams (he supervised 70 matches with Milan) after Spaniard Pep Guardiola (73 with City and 50 with Barcelona).

"City were the better team, especially in the first half, and they deserved to win," said Ancelotti.

"We tried in the second half, but to no avail," he added.

As for Guardiola, he said, "I am very proud tonight, more than anyone can imagine. The players were wonderful. We played a great match and compensated somewhat for our exit in the same round last season against the same opponent."

Ancelotti made one change to the squad that went into the first leg, involving Brazilian defender Eder Militao, who was suspended in the first match, instead of German Antonio Rudiger, despite the latter's task of monitoring Manchester City's giant Norwegian striker Erling Haaland in a wonderful way.

Frenchman Eduardo Camavinga also overcame a slight injury to his knee and occupies the left back position.

The Italian coach relied on the brilliant trio of French forward Karim Benzema and the Brazilians Vinicius Junior and Rodrigo.

On the other hand, Pep Guardiola decided to include the same squad that played the first leg.

Guardiola rested four of them in his team's last match against Everton in the English Premier League, and they are playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, winger Jack Grealish, defender John Stones and Portuguese Bernardo Silva.

City took the lead from the first minute, thanks to an almost absolute possession rate, as it carried out 196 correct passes, compared to only 13 for Real Madrid in the first quarter of the hour.

City's first attempt was a stray shot by Kyle Walker from outside the area after 3 minutes.

Then it was the most prominent opportunity for Halland, who received a perfect ball from Grealish, so he rose to it and hit it with his head from a very close range, but the Belgian Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois tackled it brilliantly before the Austrian international defender David Alaba scattered the ball (12).
Then Courtois intervened in a better way to save his goal from a sure goal when he pushed Halland's header with his fingertips (20).
City's pressure paid off when De Bruyne passed a wonderful ball towards Silva, who controlled it before hitting it hard with his left into the net (23).

And City almost consolidated its lead when Haaland received the ball on the outskirts of the area, so he cunningly fired it, which passed to the side of the post (25).
Real Madrid began to gradually enter the atmosphere of the match, and after City thwarted two attempts by two counterattacks, German Toni Kroos fired a missile from outside the area, which bounced off the crossbar in the first serious threat to City's goal (32).
City soon added the second goal when Grealish passed a ball towards German Ilkay Gundogan, who hit it with Militao's foot and prepared for Silva, who followed it with his head into the net (36).
Real Madrid's performance improved at the beginning of the second half, and the referee awarded him a direct free kick, which was fired by Alaba powerfully with his left. Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson flew at it and skillfully turned it with his fingertips into a corner kick (48).
City almost fell the defending champion 14 times by a knockout, after Gundogan passed a cunning ball with the heel inside the area towards Haaland, the last one in Courtois, who intervened again to save his goal from a sure goal, so that the ball hit the crossbar (72).
Then City decided the final result in his favor when De Bruyne raised a ball from a fixed kick inside the area, which Swiss defender Manuel Akanji raised with his head, collided with Militao and turned a mistake into his team's goal (76).
Argentine striker Alvares, two minutes after he came on as Haaland's replacement, fired the last shot when he invested in a wonderful through ball from Phil Foden to hit it to the right of Courtois in the first minute of stoppage time.