It was the third consecutive time on this season’s Champions League knock-out stage that Actual had come from behind to win
It was the third consecutive time on this season’s Champions League knock-out stage that Actual had come from behind to win
Spanish media heaped reward on Actual Madrid after the LaLiga winners pulled off a outstanding comeback win in opposition to Manchester Metropolis on Wednesday to advance to the Champions League last.
Main 1-0 with minutes to go, Metropolis gave the impression to be heading for Paris earlier than a late Rodrygo double and an extra-time penalty from Karim Benzema gave the hosts an unlikely 3-1 win on the night time and secured a 6-5 victory on mixture.
It was the third consecutive time on this season’s Champions League knock-out stage that Actual had come from behind to win.
“Actual Madrid are out of this world,” Madrid-based AS mentioned of their headline, accompanied by an image of the squad celebrating in entrance of a piece of the house crowd.
Sport newspaper merely went with “Unimaginable” after Actual as soon as once more circled a first-leg deficit following their last-16 win in opposition to Paris St. Germain earlier within the competitors.
Marca hailed it because the “best night time within the historical past of the Bernabeu”.
“If PSG was already inexplicable, if Chelsea was already unimaginable, final night time in Chamartin was, merely, the perfect night time of a stadium that has seen this workforce in all colors and that may be a lot to say,” learn their lead story.
Former Actual Madrid president Ramon Calderon mentioned UEFA ought to gave the membership a particular trophy to recognise their comeback efforts in making it to one more Champions League last, their seventeenth together with the previous European Cup.
“I feel UEFA ought to give us a particular trophy already for what we achieved in these three ties. It’s one thing superb. I don’t suppose it has occurred earlier than ever. So please UEFA take that into consideration,” he mentioned.
On the streets of Madrid, dialogue of the match was nonetheless rife on Thursday.
“You by no means lose hope relating to Actual Madrid,” mentioned fan Maria Jose Gomez. “I used to be altering channels each 5 seconds in order to not die of fright. On high of that I may hear the roar of the stadium from house and I dwell two kilometres away from it.”
Actual will tackle Liverpool in a rematch of the 2018 Champions League last on the Stade de France on Might 28.
