Man City 2-1 Real Madrid: Raphael Varane Gives Honest Interview After His Mistakes

IT’S FAIR to say Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane had a night to forget against Manchester City.

The French defender – who many regard as one of the best centre-backs in world football – produced two huge errors to allow Raheem Sterling and then Gabriel Jesus to score during a 2-1 defeat.

After just nine minutes Varane was dispossessed in his own penalty area by Gabriel Jesus, who teed up Raheem Sterling for an easy tap-in.

Karim Benzema did equalise for Real before half-time to give Zinedine Zidane’s side hope of progressing to the quarter-finals.

But that hope was extinguished with a little more than 20 minutes remaining as Varane missed a header, then saw his attempted header back to Thibaut Courtois latched onto by Jesus, who slotted it home.