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The Semifinal contest came to an end last night with two experienced sides not really having a good season competing to join the Blue Side of Manchester in the final phase of who emerges as the 2021 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNER in Instabul. Here's the second All-English final in The space of three years after Liverpool defeated Tottenham to emerge as Champions in 2019. Can we say the European strength of teams is heading back home to the English sides as we saw 3 English teams make it to the Quarter-finals and the two out of the Three that Qualified into the Semifinals are edging it out this Weekend before the INSTABUL BATTLE OF WHO GETS CROWNED AS EUROPEAN CHAMPION. MANCHESTER VS PARIS Manchester City had to defeat Favourite; PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN home and away to qualify, this was rather unexpected with the magnificent quality the Paris team possess and the individual ability/experience with Neymar, Icardi, Angel Di Maria and youngster; Kylian Mbappe. On paper, P.S.G. seem more like the Favorite with the quality they possess with a record Champions league winning Goalkeeper; Keylor Navas in his days at Real Madrid. TACTICAL BATTLE The Parisians where humiliated after a 2-1 loss at home and a clear 2-0 defeat in Manchester with a 4-1 aggregate scoreline, like, whatelse can I say... The game ended with superiority in tactics/approach to the game. The Parisians came into both legs attacking but they missed too many chances and dispossessed throughout the game with the Citizens being Clinical in defence and their attackers taking their chances accurately with maximum conversion and threatening attacks as their both goals in the second leg came through Counter-attacks knowing fully well that the Parisians wants to score by all means with Marquinios leaving the heart of the defense a couple of time and found in the Citizens 18-yard box awaiting header as he was close with one of his header hitting the Crossbar. If he was intact in defence he could have stayed strong to avert the goals that came through as he was found running to catch up at both conversion. ETYMOLOGY Both teams are yet to house a Champions league trophy and last season the Parisians were on the verge of winning but defeated by the Bavarians; Bayern Munich which they defeated in the Quarter-finals stage, thereby making them seem like the favourite to win it but instead the English sides aren't here for Jokes or Cruise. Manchester City on the otherhand are just gonna be having a first taste of the UEFA Champions league Final and will definitely be an amazing one to add up to their cabinet after winning the Capital-one Cup and soon to emerge Champion of the English Barclays premier league, tough yet a battle they need to face as they do have a better managerial experience in the person of Pep Guardiola; who did a treble at Barcelona and looking forward to repeating it here though out of the F.A. Cup already. MANAGERIAL STRENGTH The managerial strength shew off with Guardiola putting together his loads of experience which yielded a desirable result he anticipated. Mauricio Pochettino couldn't match up such yet again, though the Italian remains a good manager to reckon with yet not in the league of Guardiola until he lifts the Champions league. GALACTICOS VS LONDONERS The Champions league and Spanish Giant with the Champions league history they've got couldn't go pass a rejuvenating Chelsea side that had struggled throughout the season and coming back since the arrival of the German tactician; Tuchel. WHAT WENT WRONG? We all still believed that the Galacticos will surprise and the BLUES but weren't as threatening as supposed though they kept Mendy busy throughout the game but Ramos trying to assist in attack so him running down while the first goal landed in the back of the net. There was Hazard, Vinicius, Mendy, Benzema, Kroos, Modric yet couldn't score until Mason Mount scored the second to shut them up from believing in qualifying. Both sides have the wealth of experience considering Thiago Silva and Azpilicueta leading in defence it was enough morale to boost the confidence level of the players. TACTICALITY The TACTICALITY of Zidane went wrong on the night as he kept an unfit Hazard for too long on the pitch believing he understands the Blues better when there was Isco who could afford causing turmoil on the pitch. Another angle is the Preference of Mendy over an attacking minded Marcelo in such a game, playing Marcelo and Isco would have kept so many Players busy and give the likes of Kroos and Benzema enough time with the ball. Also, Ramos didn't stay put in his central role and the manager couldn't curb that as Chelsea tactical approach of a false five-man defence worked pretty fine for them. UCL REHEARSAL it's Manchester City Vs Chelsea in the final and Tomorrow we'll be seeing them battle it both in London in the Barclays premier league as they'll both be playing mind game definitely. Who'll be Crowned UCL CHAMPION MANCHESTER CITY? OR CHELSEA?