Real Madrid is a historic club, accustomed to extraordinary exploits and lifts. In recent years, the Madrid club has produced crazy comebacks. Back on these different games.
This Wednesday evening, Real Madrid faces Arsenal at Santiago Bernabéu in the quarter -final return from the Champions League. Beaten 3-0 During the first leg, Carlo Ancelotti’s men will have to achieve a capital performance to perform a comeback. In recent history, the Merengues have already achieved this kind of performance. Wolfsburg in 2016, Manchester City and PSG in 2022 and Bayern Munich in 2024. One thing is certain: to realize the impossible, the whole team will have to be in tune.
Cristiano Ronaldo decisive against Wolfsburg
Beaten 2-0 to go to Germany, Real Madrid must go up this handicap to access the last square. A high -tension match and a crazy Bernabéu that pushes the Madrilenians to achieve a feat.
That evening, only one man shone on the lawn: Cristiano Ronaldo. Before kick -off, the Portuguese had displayed unfailing determination and total confidence in the ability of his team to reverse the situation. And he kept his word. CR7 has once again proven that he was a man of the big meetings by signing a decisive hat-trick, sending Real Madrid to the semi-finals. An XXL performance, all the more striking that it had been 14 years since the club had managed to qualify after losing the first leg. Thanks to this feat, Real reaches the semi-finals for the 7ᵉ consecutive time.
A year 2022 Surréelle
2022 is a special year, full of twists and turns. It all starts in the 8ᵉ final of the Champions League. Karim Benzema’s Real Madrid faces Kylian Mbappé and Neymar’s PSG. Beaten 1-0 at the Parc des Princes, the Madrilenians find themselves annoying posture and must react to the Bernabéu. Unfortunately, in the 39ᵉ minute, Kylian Mbappé, on a pass from Neymar, scored the goal of 0-1. An achievement which has serious consequences and which obliges Real to score 3 goals to qualify. It is at this time that the unthinkable occurred: in 20 minutes, Real Madrid scored three units thanks to its scorer, Karim Benzema, and overthrows the PSG to qualify in the quarter -finals.
-Karim Benzema during the Rontada against PSG in 2022 (photo by Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images).
After eliminating Chelsea in the quarter-final, Real Madrid finds Manchester City in the semi-final of the Champions League. Beaten 4-3 on the way to the Etihad Stadium, the Madrids are led 0-1 in the return match, in the 73ᵉ minute. The qualification then seems to move away … until a miracle occurs. Coming into play in the 68ᵉ minute in place of Toni Kroos, Rodrygo changed the course of the match by scoring two goals after the 89th minute, sending his team in overtime. Here again, it is Karim Benzema who is decisive by transforming a penalty, propelling Real towards a new final. A final won a few weeks later at the Stade de France, against Liverpool (1-0), thanks to a goal from Vinicius Jr.
An unexpected hero
In 2024, in a Champions League campaign which can lead to the 15ᵉ cut in the big ears, Real Madrid faced Bayern Munich in the semi-finals. After a 2-2 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, the two teams meet at the Santiago Bernabéu with the objective of qualifying for the final. Led 0-1 following a goal from Alphonso Davies in the second half, Real Madrid is back to the wall. But A player will turn into a hero: Joselu. Entering the 81ᵉ minute in place of Valverde, the Spaniard will score two goals in 3 minutes to qualify his team in the final against Borussia Dortmund. A scenario that recalls that of Manchester City two years earlier. In the final, Real will win its 15ᵉ Champions League by winning 2-0.
Faced with Arsenal, Real Madrid will once again have to challenge the laws of football. But with the Bernabéu, his story and his faith in the feat, nothing is never lost. Real believes it. Always.
Louis LEMARECHAL.
