After missing two penalties this past week, Benzema had the courage to PANENKA EDERSON 
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Highest scoring Champions League semifinals:
Man City 4-3 Real Madrid (2022)
Liverpool 5-2 Roma (2018)
Ajax 5-2 Bayern Munich (1995)
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RESULT
What a game. What a competition. A Champions League classic.
De Bruyne, Jesus, Foden & Bernardo Silva net for Man. City
Benzema (2) & Vinícius Júnior score in Manchester for visitors
Sum up this first-leg thriller in one word!
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7 - Man City 4-3 Real Madrid is the joint-highest scoring ever Champions League semi-final, along with Ajax 5-2 Bayern Munich (April 1995) and Liverpool 5-2 Roma (April 2018). Breathless.
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Karim Benzema’s game by numbers against Man City:
3 chances created
3 shots
2 shots on target
2 goals
This man cannot stop scoring. 
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Real Madrid have conceded 24% of their goals this season across five Champions League knock-out games. Somehow they could still reach the final
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Both Manchester teams have beaten Real Madrid 4-3 on English soil in the UCL :
2003: Manchester United 4-3 Real Madrid
2022: Manchester City 4-3 Real Madrid
The more things change, the more they stay the same. 
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Last night was the first time Real Madrid have scored three times in a Champions League game and lost since March 2015 (vs Schalke)
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Liverpool have never lost at Anfield at this stage of the European Cup, winning 9 of their 11 matches (D2)…
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Liverpool and Villarreal have met just twice before in European competition, with both sides winning their home leg of the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League semi-finals when Liverpool would progress to the final against Unai Emery’s Sevilla.
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Since a 2-1 victory at Goodison Park over Everton back in August 2005, Villarreal have not won any of their last eight away games in England in all competitions (D3 L5), already tasting defeat at Old Trafford in the group stages earlier this season.
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