Forget the World Cup, Euros or 最高の Bowl - this is why the 支持する／優勝者s League is the greatest show on earth!

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It took some time to come 負かす／撃墜する from Tuesday night. To 現実に remember the 詳細（に述べる）s of one of those nights inside the house of European football grandly hosting this 時代's 大陸の Clasico.

One of those that really 要求するs a cerveza or three 負かす／撃墜する a Madrid 支援する street for a debrief. That yes, Vinicius Junior had dropped off the 前線 to 始める，決める Rodrygo away and who played that clever little ball for Phil Foden? John 石／投石するs, of course, how could you forget? やめる easily in the circumstances, 現実に. Blink and you 行方不明になる it sort of stuff.

To remember the 演劇, the 大混乱. The Real Madrid （法廷の）裁判 howling as one at the French fourth 公式の／役人 Pierre Gaillouste for the 審判（をする）'s timekeeping; the three screamers; the screeching whistles each time Manchester City had the temerity to 持つ／拘留する the ball. How the の近くにd roof 保持するd all of this energy and 与える／捧げるd to the inferno. Pep Guardiola either on his haunches or frantically celebrating outside of his technical area.

Oh, and Kevin De Bruyne spending the hour before kick-off with his 長，率いる over a 洗面所, team 選択 演劇 that would ordinarily make headlines but ended up as a mere footnote. De Bruyne's luck in the 支持する／優勝者s League is unparalleled in a way that makes you wonder if he's run over somebody's cat in Nyon. Rodri out on his feet then suddenly a 支点 from nowhere; Aurelien Tchouameni's impulsive and 無謀な yellow card for poleaxing Jack Grealish within seconds, which 支配するs him out of next week's second 脚.

And the tussle between Antonio Rudiger and Erling Haaland. Again, an after-thought when column インチs could have justifiably bulged with that alone.

There was 演劇 and 大混乱 as European 支持する／優勝者s Manchester City drew with Real Madrid

Carlo Ancelotti (left) and Pep Guardiola (権利) were in 罰金 form on the touchline as they led their 各々の 味方するs

There were a number of tussles between world class 星／主役にするs that caught the 注目する，もくろむ at the Bernabeu

The Bernabeu was the scene of an all-timer in a 競争 ? when it reaches these 行う／開催する／段階s ? that is just like no other in the world of sport. The Ryder Cup runs it の近くに on a good year but nothing else 供給するs this sort of fuss on tap.

Real Madrid 3-3 Manchester City was good. And 兵器庫 2-2 Bayern Munich wasn't too bad either, both occasions that had thousands on their couches whizzing between TV channels, 行方不明の goals and talking points while over on the other 味方する and 辞退するing to 選ぶ just one game.?

Did Bukayo Saka throw his 脚 into Manuel Neuer? Why's Gabriel 選ぶd that up? Incredible that a 公正に／かなり beleaguered Bayern could go to England's in-form team and get a result like that and doing so with a Harry Kane 刑罰，罰則, there of all places, just 追加するd that little extra gravy.

But this is what Bayern do. It's what Real have always done, what City seem to be learning and what 兵器庫 are 努力する／競うing toward. Mikel Arteta has some catching up to do, the others have been perfecting this over years ? in Real and Bayern's 事例／患者, １０年間s ? but that remains the beauty of the 支持する／優勝者s League.?

There are, にもかかわらず the 財政上の might and institutional dominance of a chosen few, those who look like muscling in. Whether you are プロの／賛成の or anti City, there is no 疑問 that they ? and Chelsea before them ? have upset the natural order and that, when stripped 支援する to men running around a pitch, is good for football.

Real and City now have their history. When they 会合，会う, the 22 out there paint. The artistry of this fixture is 無敵の now and an innocent 受託 of these classics is that both 経営者／支配人s, Guardiola and perennial 勝利者 Carlo Ancelotti, just shrug and 受託する that the other guy is 血まみれの good at his 職業.

'We were in a good position and (Federico) Valverde did that,' Guardiola said of Real's late equaliser afterwards. 'What can you do about it? Give a 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 賞賛 and 受託する it. The feeling I have with Real Madrid is it doesn't 事柄 how good you play, they will always 得点する／非難する／２０ a goal.'

Valverde himself talked about 脚s and oxygen, and all the basics. There has been a 簡潔な／要約する 一時的休止，執行延期 from the incessant dissection of 戦術の styles that has （海，煙などが）飲み込むd the 首相 League out here in Spain, where it has just been 定評のある that both teams are stacked with amazing world-class 星／主役にするs, both happy with their 補欠／交替の／交替する philosophies.?

It's been an 態度 of just get on with the game because we all know that Real play vertically, we know City are more 水平の. Watching the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 and brimstone across four 関係 over the last five years is an ultimate 楽しみ.

兵器庫 and Bayern Munich also played out an entertaining draw in London on Tuesday night

Guardiola 認める there was little City could do about the 成果／努力 of?Federico Valverde (権利)

最終的に, the 支持する／優勝者s League remains football's greatest 競争 and gives a feeling of 証言，証人／目撃するing history every year

Do they play each other too much? That is an argument against the 拡大するd 支持する／優勝者s League, a move to freshen up the tired group 行う／開催する／段階 but owning its own 欠陥s.?

Too much of the good stuff. There is undoubtedly 長所 to that, and one of the main 推論する／理由s why the idea of a 最高の League should always be fought with everything. But when they arrive in the Spring, 井戸／弁護士席 that's a different 事柄 altogether.?

Real 直面するing City ? and maybe Bayern 会合 兵器庫 in the 未来 ? is one that 向こうずねs 有望な in the calendar. It's a 扱う／治療する for the 注目する，もくろむs. It's 予測できない, unlawful at times, unshackled 質 in a way we are just not 保証（人）d in the 首相 League.

Football's greatest 競争 gives you that feeling of 証言，証人／目撃するing history once the last eight comes 一連の会議、交渉／完成する. It brought to mind a perfectly phrased question, put to Rodri, on Monday evening, 24 hours before the first 脚, which began with: 'Real are the Kings of Europe, but you have the 栄冠を与える.'

So true and put in that 状況, the hoopla makes it the greatest show on Earth.