2024-05-10 17:55:10
Real Madrid will be in the Champions League final at Wembley against Borussia Dortmund. Of course, he did it in his own way, coming back in the final minutes with a double from Joselu, the hero of the night for the white team in which VAR was on his side by validating the 2-1 that gave Real the go to the final. Bayern went ahead with both of Davies and when it seemed that he was in London, what Real Madrid has in Europe to leave him out appeared.
The setting, a packed Bernabéu, was ready to experience one of those historic nights because of the atmosphere, the teams and because at stake was nothing more and nothing less than a place in the Champions League final. The stage was ready and it was the moment for the actors, the players from Real Madrid and Bayern, the protagonists of what was going to happen on the pitch. Ancelotput the same ones from Munich, with the addition of Carvajal, and Tuchel, he gave a more offensive character to his team. With the roles distributed, the ball began to roll and Real Madrid went out in a rush to look for the quick goal that would bring them closer to London.
Bayern withstood that white start and even began to approach Lunin’s area. The truth is that both Tuchel and Ancelotti used the same style book. Pressure on the opponent’s ball exit to force errors and speed on the wings. Thus, both teams looked for the goal, with the feeling that Real Madrid had more capacity up front to invent with Vinicius and Rodrygo. And it was precisely them who had the best chance to open the scoring in the 13th minute. Vinicius’ shot hit the post and Neuer rejected Rodrygo’s subsequent shot. A complete scare for Bayern and gasoline for Real Madrid and the Bernabéu that pushed even harder.
Meanwhile, Bayern were warning that they were not ‘dead’ or anything like that and Real Madrid was able to prove it in the 68th minute with Davies’ 0-1 at the end of a counterattack, poorly defended by Real Madrid, by the way.
Ancelotti reacted by removing Kroos and Tchouaméni and fielding Camavinga and Modric. And coincidentally not, Real Madrid tied in the 71st minute in a strange play, with several rebounds in which Bayern scored an own goal, but the referee annulled it at the request of the VAR due to Nacho’s foul on Kimmich. Real Madrid went with everything up, which opened the doors for Bayern to seek the ruling against. The minutes were ticking away, with Real moving further and further away from London, but the miracle factor appeared. Joselu scored 1-1 in the 88th minute after a mistake by Neuer and repeated it in the 92nd minute to make it 2-1 thanks to the VAR that corrected the offside that the referee had signaled.
The party broke out at the Bernabéu, while the Germans did not know very well what had happened in those four minutes of madness in which they went from being in London to being left without an end. From Joselu’s 2-1 to the end, it was a will-and-go from Bayern, which he scored, but his goal was disallowed for offside, which caused the German team to become extremely angry. The Bavarian efforts came to nothing and Real Madrid, thanks again to a comeback, reached a new Champions League final.