Real Madrid won the Champions League by defeating Liverpool in Paris with a goal from Vinicius and days later they won the League title at the Bernabéu. In addition, Carolina Marín wins the badminton European Championship in Madrid, confirming her recovery
The Fourteenth was the most incredible of all. Never before had Real Madrid won a European Cup with such an agonizing and suffered journey. A team clinging to the passing of its shirt and an inexplicable resilience was able to turn the situation around up to three times when it had lost everything on a thorny road to the final in Paris.
Precisely against a team from the city, the Paris Saint-Germain of Mbappé, Messi and Neymar, rescued an impossible match. Kylian Mbappé opened the scoring in the 38th minute, which added to the 1-0 scoreline in the first leg left the whites very touched. But Benzema came to the rescue, putting pressure on Donnarumma in a play without apparent danger in which they ended up stealing the ball and scoring the tie, which caused a white tsunami that ended with a hat-trick from Benzema in 17 minutes and the Parisians eliminated. Then it was the turn of Chelsea, current champion in a game that was reached with a comfortable 1-3 in London that did not portend another white agony. However, in the 74th minute of the game the score was 0-3 and Madrid was out. But Ancelotti grabbed Rodrygo, who scored the goal that led to extra time, and in extra time the Bernabéu pushed the whites until a goal from Benzema put them into the semifinals, against City.
rubbing eyes
Guardiola’s men won the first leg in Manchester (4-3). When Mahrez scored in minute 74 at the Bernabéu, Real Madrid appealed to the heroic, but the minutes passed and no reaction came. Until Rodrygo jumped onto the field. Madrid had not launched a shot between the three sticks, but when stoppage time was lifted by the fourth official, Rodrygo scored the equalizing goal. And a minute later he scored the second goal, who took the game to extra time before the euphoria of the stands and the disbelief of Guardiola. In extra time, how could it be otherwise, Benzema appeared to score the goal that sealed Madrid’s ticket to the final in Paris against Liverpool. Incredible, heroic, inexplicable, epic… The adjectives ran out for an indomitable team to which Ancelotti himself surrendered: “I’m still rubbing my eyes. I couldn’t define what happened. It is something that has to do with the spirit of the team, with its winning soul.
In the final, Klopp’s Liverpool awaited them, whom they had already defeated three years earlier with sufficiency in the final (3-1). On this occasion, in Saint-Denis, Paris, and with an organizational chaos that even jeopardized the holding of the final, which delayed its start, the whites defeated the English with a goal from Vinicius, finishing off a deflected shot from Valverde. Nobody doubted that Madrid would be proclaimed champion after the feats achieved along the way in this incredible edition that for many is the best in the history of white successes in the European Cup.
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Ancelotti’s men put the climax days later by winning the League with four games to play. Goals from Rodrygo (2), Asensio and Benzema gave victory against Espanyol and certified Real Madrid’s 35th domestic championship, which closed an unthinkable year of success and feats.
Carolina wins the European
Not far from there, at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center, Carolina Marín left behind months of suffering and pain to overcome a serious knee injury that had left her without the Beijing Olympic Games and unable to participate in her badminton World Cup in Huelva. The woman from Huelva attended the European Championship in Madrid, a city that organized the competition in record time after the different assigned venues withdrew, with the band of favorite. However, Carolina faced the competition game by game to recover sensations and scare away ghosts. And finally she was crowned queen of Europe for the sixth time after beating an old acquaintance, the Scottish Kirsty Gilmour (21-10 and 21-12), as she had already done in the 2016 and 2017 finals. The tears of emotion from Carolina and her family were shared by thousands of people from Madrid who supported her in another story with a happy ending.
