The Real Madrid of Ancelotti 2.0 has built its brilliant story winning two Champions in the last three seasons. Titles that for many are the most epic in the history of the club. Especially the year 2022, when the white team managed to pass … to eighths, rooms and semifinals after absolutely unexpected, and all of them with the Santiago Bernabéu as stage. But those deeds had a very different pattern from those that happened in the seventies and, above all, of the eighties and that caused that reflection of Juanito turned into eternity for Real Madrid: «90 Minuti in the Bernabéu are molto longo».
«Emilio (Butragueño) has talked about 6-1 against Anderlecht. This is the source I drink these days. And, too, I have seen the most recent comebacks. We want to be part of this story and add one more page. It is a night tailored to Real Madrid, ”reflects Bellingham, which the closest he has seen of a white comeback is the 2-1 of last year’s semifinals against Bayern.
That was a comeback that was created in the second leg itself, because a draw was arrived with a draw (2-2). Something similar happened to Chelsea in the 2022 rooms. After winning 1-3 in Stamford Bridgethe Londoners got 0-3 at the Bernabéu and had to remember Juanito since the 75th minute, when no one had invoked him for that tie. The comebacks of that same edition, before the PSG in the round of 16 and the City in the semifinals, went after losing only for a goal of difference in Paris and Manchester and bending the disadvantage with a goal against in the Bernabéu. They are traced, of course, but not those that germinated four decades ago, which is just what the Ancelotti team needs tonight.
It all started 50 years ago
On November 5, 1975, Madrid endorsed 5-1 to Derby County in the round of 16 of the European Cup. In English, he had lost 4-1 and needed to win for three goals apart, or four in the event that he received some, for that of the double value of the goals that he has already deleted that was eliminated. He did it and how were that a few more nights, especially with him Madrid of the Buitre Quinta in the penultimate decade of the last century. «There is a moment of chaos that produces an euphoria in the players of Madrid and fear in the adversaries. So, rationality is totally parked and so it is how incredible things begin to occur. This generation knows what the way is and what is the climate to be created, ”explained these days Jorge Valdano, present in all those heroicities of the eighties.
Glasgow Celtic, the Rijaka, AnderlechtInter (twice), Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Red Star know perfectly what Madrid is capable of when you return from the first leg with a score of at least two goals of difference against. Ancelotti also knows it, even if he was not there, and at the time asylum he also adds a very Spanish recipe: “To overcome you will have to have head, heart and balls,” says the Italian, not obsessed with marking the first before the second. «Making an early goal is an important part, but the most important thing is to control the game, have a cold head and try to get your best version from the beginning. When you control the game, it can be marked at any minute ».
A match that can turn this final pessimistic of the season into a diametrically opposite story. «Everyone expects a comeback and that is why this attractive atmosphere has been generated. It is a custom -made night for Real Madrid, ”says a Bellingham who has no hurry to emphas Arsenal. «It is true that if you run more, you have more possibilities. They were 14 kilometers less than arsenal and that is as if they had one more player. Of course it influences the game, but the same thing happened last year. We were not the ones who ran the most and ended up winning the Champions League. We have to know how to run and what implies running next to each other ».
It will be the second time in its history that the Arsenal Play in the Bernabéu. The first was in 2005, when he won 0-1 with a goal from Henry. It was against that galactic Madrid in the process of decomposition. Neither the gunners nor the whites have nothing to do with those teams of twenty years ago: «We have no fear, just respect. Without a doubt, when you have to create a story, when you have to build a story, you have to be really convinced of what you want to get. They are going to try to take the game to places that we do not want but go out to win is the best way that the probation of passing the tie is as high as possible, ”says Arteta.
