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Real Madrid secured an impressive 3-0 victory over Manchester City<\/a> in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie on Wednesday, with all three goals scored by Fede Valverde.<\/em><\/p>\n Did not have much to do in terms of saves, but he dominated his area from set-pieces. He did have to make a crucial stop with his foot to deny Nico O\u2019Reilly in the second half.<\/p>\n Struggled up against Jeremy Doku in the early stages, but he got more confident as the match went on.<\/p>\n Rudiger loves his battle with Erling Haaland, and this was another that he won. He was very solid throughout the 90 minutes, with his performance including a crucial intervention to deny the Man City number nine a goal in the second half.<\/p>\n \n Preferred to Raul Asencio, he was defensively sound after a difficult opening 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Only played the first half, but he did relatively well up against the wide threat of Antoine Semenyo.<\/p>\n Man City rarely troubled when attacking down the middle of the pitch, and Tchouameni was a large reason for this.<\/p>\n Looked out of place at times, and he always gave Man City a way back into the match late on.<\/p>\n A good all-round performance from Guler, who did his work defensively and tried his best in attack.<\/p>\n What a performance from the Uruguayan. He scored all three goals<\/a> for his first career hat-trick, but even without this, it was a top showing.<\/p>\n \n Got the assist for Valverde\u2019s third goal, which was the highlight of a good display from the Morocco international.<\/p>\n Always a danger in attack, and he should have continued his scoring form from the penalty spot, but his effort was stopped by Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n His defensive ability has been questioned many times in recent months, but he was solid in the second half.<\/p>\n Off the pace at times, as to be expected considering he was returning after a couple of weeks out.<\/p>\n Worked hard.<\/p>\n Champions League debut for the young midfielder.<\/p>\n More minutes in the legs for Real Madrid\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Real Madrid player ratings against Manchester City: Captain’s performance from hat-trick hero Fede Valverde<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid secured an impressive 3-0 victory over Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thibaut Courtois \u2013 7.5<\/h2>\n
Trent Alexander-Arnold \u2013 6<\/h2>\n
Antonio Rudiger \u2013 8<\/h2>\n
Dean Huijsen \u2013 7<\/h2>\n
Ferland Mendy \u2013 6.5<\/h2>\n
Aurelien Tchouameni \u2013 7<\/h2>\n
Thiago Pitarch \u2013 6<\/h2>\n
Arda Guler \u2013 6.5<\/h2>\n
Fede Valverde \u2013 9.5<\/h2>\n
Brahim Diaz \u2013 7<\/h2>\n
Vinicius Junior \u2013 7<\/h2>\n
Substitutes<\/h3>\n
Fran Garcia \u2013 6.5<\/h2>\n
Eduardo Camavinga \u2013 6<\/h2>\n
Franco Mastantuono \u2013 6<\/h2>\n
Manuel Angel \u2013 6<\/h2>\n
Dani Carvajal \u2013 N\/A<\/h2>\n