Super Silva leads rout of champs Real
Hindustan TimesTo the fading strains of ‘Hey Jude’, blue and white streamers dropped wispily like light rain. Manchester City's Bernardo Silva, second left, celebrates scoring with teammates during the Champions League semi-final second leg match After a dismantling, clinical and classy in equal measure, of defending champions Real Madrid who lost 0-4 on Wednesday and 1-5 on aggregate, that is where Manchester City are headed to play Inter Milan in the final. Unbeaten in 26 home games in Europe, in 23 consecutive games in all competitions in 2022-23, winners of the Premier League five times in the last six seasons and with the chance to be the first English team to win the treble since Manchester United in 1998-99, it almost beggars belief that Manchester City are yet to win the Champions League. And the way Kyle Walker caught up and dispossessed Vinicius Jr belied the fact that the Real Madrid star has a winner in a Champions League final, 23 goals and 21 assists in 53 club games this term and is 10 years younger than the right-side City centre-back. “In this type of game Bernardo is always there,” said Guardiola of the only player after Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski to have scored twice against Real in a Champions League semi-final.