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Participant scores as Mbappe hat-trick downs Cityzens

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Actual Madrid secured their place within the Champions League final 16 on Wednesday night, beating Manchester Metropolis 3-1 in Spain and 6-3 on combination throughout the knockout play-off.

The Cityzens had ended the primary leg in nightmare style as two late strikes noticed them arrive on the Santiago Bernabeu needing to overturn a one-goal deficit, however issues acquired even worse throughout a confidence-sapping first half in Madrid.

Kylian Mbappe put the reigning European champions forward after simply 4 minutes as he lobbed Ederson and the Frenchman doubled his tally for the night simply after the half-hour mark to place the tie past Metropolis’s attain.

The 26-year-old grabbed his hat-trick within the second half after drilling in Madrid’s sixth throughout the 2 legs, earlier than Nico Gonzalez opened his Metropolis account with a comfort within the dying embers.

Los Blancos will face both Bayer Leverkusen or metropolis rivals Atletico Madrid within the final 16 and can uncover their opponents on Friday.

Vinicius Junior, Kylian Mbappe

It was the Kylian Mbappe present on Wednesday / Mateo Villalba/GettyImages

*Participant scores offered by Fotmob*

Participant

Score

GK: Thibaut Courtois

7.2/10

RB: Federico Valverde (c)

8.3/10

CB: Raul Asencio

7.7/10

CB: Antonio Rudiger

6.9/10

LB: Ferland Mendy

6.7/10

RM: Rodrygo

8.5/10

CM: Aurelien Tchouameni

7.6/10

CM: Dani Ceballos

7.1/10

LM: Jude Bellingham

7.2/10

ST: Vinicius Junior

7.2/10

ST: Kylian Mbappe

9.7/10

SUB: Eduardo Camavinga (78′ for Ceballos)

6.1/10

SUB: Brahim Diaz (78′ for Mbappe)

6.0/10

SUB: Luka Modric (83′ for Tchouameni)

N/A

SUB: David Alaba (90′ for Valverde)

N/A

SUB: Endrick (90′ for Vinicius)

N/A

Subs not used: Andriy Lunin (GK), Sergio Mestre (GK), Lucas Vazquez, Fran Garcia, Jesus Vallejo, Arda Guler.

Josko Gvardiol

Extra ache for Man Metropolis / Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/GettyImages

*Participant scores offered by Fotmob*

Participant

Score

GK: Ederson

6.2/10

RB: Abdukodir Khusanov

6.6/10

CB: John Stones

N/A

CB: Ruben Dias (c)

6.1/10

LB: Josko Gvardiol

5.7/10

RM: Phil Foden

6.5/10

CM: Nico Gonzalez

7.3/10

CM: Ilkay Gundogan

6.9/10

LM: Bernardo Silva

6.7/10

ST: Savinho

6.2/10

ST: Omar Marmoush

6.6/10

SUB: Nathan Ake (8′ for Stones)

6.2/10

SUB: James McAtee (77′ for Foden)

6.1/10

SUB: Mateo Kovacic (77′ for Gundogan)

6.1/10

Subs not used: Stefan Ortega (GK), Scott Carson (GK), Rico Lewis, Kevin De Bruyne, Matheus Nunes, Jack Grealish, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.

Participant of the match – Kylian Mbappe (Actual Madrid)

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