Real Madrid Today Breaking News 22: No Champions League Chaos Is Beyond Real Madrid
The pregame tifo read, “Another magical night for the kings of Europe.” And so it was, with a late flurry and extra time penalty sending Real Madrid back to the final—and Man City tumbling out
With every passing round in this season’s Champions League, the competition it has managed to make its own, Real Madrid’s comebacks have become more spectacular
It looked finished against Paris Saint-Germain and then scored three times in the final half hour of the last 16. It threw away a two-goal lead against Chelsea, then came back to force extra time and find a winner in the quarterfinals
But in neither of those ties did Madrid seem quite so beaten as it did against Manchester City in the second leg of the semifinals on Wednesday
It was two goals behind on aggregate with 90 minutes on the clock, and yet even the amount of chaos it would have taken to overcome that was not beyond Real Madrid
It is the Spanish champion, and not Man City, that will face Liverpool in the Champions League final in Paris at the end of the month after the unlikeliest of 6–5 aggregate triumphs
It sets up a repeat of the 1981 final, even down to the city (although in a different stadium) when Liverpool won, and a repeat of the final in Kyiv four years ago when Madrid won
It’s a clash of the 13-time winners and the six-time winners, and it will mark the first time two sides will have met in three different finals