The unmissable reaction of the Real Madrid fans who left before the comeback against Manchester City

This Wednesday Real Madrid staged another memorable comeback in the Champions League to beat 3-1 Manchester City in Spain and reverse a series that was 5-3 down with 89 minutes to play. Although the players of the white team never lost faith, some of their followers did and by leaving before the final whistle they missed the epic.

the spanish program The beach bar recorded a group of supporters who had risen from their seats and left the Santiago Bernabeu. The mobile gave the microphone to a man and his young daughter who were about to cross the last security cordon to leave the stadium.

“I was with the girl and I didn’t want her to be upset”, explained the Spaniard who was walking home, despite the fact that seconds before Rodrygo had scored 1-1 in the 89th minute and added time remained to be disputed. “We can still go back”, he managed to say just before the miracle took place.

Behind him, the stadium erupted with the shout of a goal that forced the semi-final to an extension. “We’ve come back!” exclaimed this euphoric fan who hugged his daughter and ran back to the Bernabéu to return to your seat. At the same time, several of the other supporters of the white team shouted and jumped around him: “That’s my Madrid,” shouted another crazy fan.

The mobile shows how after that goal, dozens of supporters of the Spanish team run back to the stadium that minutes before they had left because they believed that the Manchester City, who was leading the game 1-0 and up 5-3 in the series, would eliminate them. Unfortunately, some of those men who appear in the video were prevented from returning by the security forces. Therefore, they could not even see the goal of Karim Benzema in the first extra time that sealed the pass to the final of the Real Madrid.

the team coach, Carlo Ancelottiacknowledged at a press conference that the panorama before the partial defeat seemed irreversible: “Everyone thought the game was over (when City went ahead), a small detail was enough, Rodrygo’s goal and all our energy”.

Likewise, he recalled that his footballers had already performed miracles before PSG y Chelsea in the previous keys: “We have had fantastic nights, we have played against three very strong teams accredited to win the Champions League, now we have another one”.

The Real Madrid will be measured again four years later in a final of Champions al Liverpoolwhom he had beaten 3-1 in 2018, the last year in which the white team raised the ‘Orejona’, then under the command of Zinedine Zidane.

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