Lhe historic Champions League last season confirmed the good trend of the Real Madrid against the English teams. It will be difficult for something similar to be repeated after the team Ancelotti will consecutively eliminate his own Chelsea (quarterfinals), City (semifinals) and Liverpool in the final in Paris to raise the fourteenth, without forgetting another comeback against the PSG in eighths.
Madrid can say that history against the English favors them. The biggest disappointments, apart from the final in Paris against Liverpool in 1981, are recent, after losing against Chelsea in the semi-finals of May 2021. In August 2020, in the year of the pandemic, it was Guardiola’s City who eliminated Zidane’s whites in the round of 16.
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Madrid has actually overcome 13 of 19 ties against English teams, 68.4%. Liverpool, in addition to losing in the 20-21 quarterfinal, have lost two finals against the whites, the latter in Paris and the Thirteenth in kyiv. The dominance has been accentuated in recent times, with six of the last eight matches won against English teams without counting last year’s final.
Madrid’s idyll against the English began in the 1957 semifinals, eliminating Manchester United (3-1 and 2-2). Then, in 1975, the whites surpassed the Derby County in the second round with a comeback for history (4-1 and 5-1). And the other two qualifying rounds that the Real Madrid team beat were in 2000 (0-0 and 2-3) and 2003 (3-1 and 4-3), in the quarterfinals and with Manchester United as a rival.
And it is that the whites also keep good memories against United, with memorable matches at Old Trafford, like Redondo’s heel and Raúl’s goal or the ovation for Ronaldo Nazario after its display. Way of the Twelfth in 2016, Madrid also eliminated City in the semifinals with a solitary goal from Bale at the Bernabéu after the 0-0 first leg.
