Real Madrid fans aim homophobic chants at Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola | OneFootball

Real Madrid celebrated another exceptional European night against Manchester City on Wednesday, albeit without some of the adrenaline of previous years. Los Blancos cruised through with a 3-1 victory over City, winning out 6-3 on aggregate, but after Kylian Mbappe’s fourth minute opener, the tie was never in doubt.

Before the first leg, Carlo Ancelotti called the clash ‘a Clasico’ in Europe over recent years, with the two sides meeting in the Champions League for four straight years. That does speak to the rivalry that has grown between the two sides in recent years, for many of which they have both represented the gold standard in European football.

However City looked a long way off their form of previous years, and the Santiago Bernabeu took great pleasure in their downfall. Their particularly rivalry with Pep Guardiola adds extra sweetness for Los Blancos, with ironic chants of ‘Guardiola, stay’ ringing around the Bernabeu at points, as reported by Sport.

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Those chants crossed the line though, and once again the Bernabeu fell into the lamentable taunting of yesteryear, as the Bernabeu loudly aimed a homophobic song at Guardiola that stems from his time as a Barcelona player in the 1990s. On Wednesday night, “Ay, Guardiola, how thing you look. First it was the drugs. Today you can be seen around Chueca.”

The song references the Chueca neighbourhood of Madrid, famous for its nightlife and in particular the gay community. His ‘thinness’ is also a nod to the HIV Aids crisis amongst in the 1980s and 1990s that massacred the gay population around the world at the time.

UEFA are yet to pronounce on the matter, and neither have Real Madrid or Manchester City commented. While efforts have been stepped up to tackle racism in Spain in recent years, homophobia, sexism and other forms of abuse have seen little progress.