Jude Bellingham ‘proud’ of two Real Madrid teammates who stepped up against Man City

Jude Bellingham lavished praise connected Real Madrid duo Aurelien Tchouameni and Raúl Asencio aft their side’s thrilling fightback triumph implicit Manchester City.

City suffered yet different illness successful a play that is becoming progressively defined by capitulation to permission them facing aboriginal elimination from the Champions League.

Leading 2-1 with 10 minutes of the crippled remaining acknowledgment to a brace from Erling Haaland, Pep Guardiola’s broadside threw it distant with Brahim Diaz and Bellingham scoring precocious connected to permission Real Madrid successful power of the play-off tie.

Real’s triumph was adjacent much awesome fixed the spate of injuries astatine the backmost Carlo Ancelotti was contending with.

Antonio Rudiger, Eder Militao, David Alaba and Dani Carvajal were each ruled retired with Lucas Vazquez, different enactment astatine right-back, besides unavailable.

Federico Valverde dropped into that right-back relation with Tchouameni continuing astatine centre-half alongside 21-year-old Asencio, Ancelotti’s lone earthy centre-half disposable who lone made his elder debut successful November.

While helium was afloat of praise for Real’s full backline, Bellingham was peculiarly arrogant of the brace successful the bosom of defence.

Speaking to Amazon Prime aft the game, Bellingham said: ‘Two of the 4 defenders were midfielders.

‘Tchouameni plays determination astir weeks and it is truly hard to accommodate to that presumption particularly erstwhile you are playing against 1 of the champion nines of this procreation [in Erling Haaland].

‘I thought helium was superb arsenic good arsenic Asencio. He has been playing archetypal squad shot for 4 months and comes distant to the Etihad and plays similar that. So I americium precise arrogant of each 4 of them particularly those two.’

Bellingham added: ‘We were paying good successful the game, creating a batch of chances truthful we felt 1 would land. We are ever assured thing volition driblet for us.’

Real volition anticipation to enactment the necktie to furniture erstwhile they invited City to the Bernabeu adjacent Wednesday.

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