It was a truly special evening. As if it wasn’t enough that Benfica beat Real Madrid, the most successful team in history Champions League. However, the Portuguese team not only won 4:2 (and ensured their progress to the next stage), but also with a goal that will go down in history.
“I didn’t know what exactly we needed, but suddenly everyone was pointing at me to go forward. I understood that we had to score one more goal,” goalkeeper Anatoly Trubin described the dramatic end of the match. Home team Benfica was leading 3:2, but due to the situation in the table, they needed an extra hit to progress.
It should be noted that Real finished in nine, Asencio and Rodrygo were sent off in a nervous setting. That is why the game was played until the 98th minute, when the home team won a promising standard situation. Those who could immediately ran to the 16. Even the Ukrainian goalkeeper Trubin.
And it was he who became the hero of the day (and the following night). The centered ball landed on Trubin’s head, and the almost two-meter tall man from Donetsk crushed it with the sovereignty of an experienced striker. Goal, victory, defeat. Lisbon started going crazy.
“Crazy moment, I don’t know what to say,” smiled Trubin. “Fantastic, historic goal,” gushed Benfica coach José Mourinho. He has experienced more than enough in his long coaching career, but he admitted that it was the first time he had seen something like this. “The stadium almost collapsed with enthusiasm, and it was a well-deserved win,” added the famous coach.
It was definitely not a coincidence, according to Mourinho, Trubin has extraordinary abilities – for a goalkeeper – in the end. Recently, in the Portuguese league, he also went to the tip in the very end and almost scored a goal. The opponent was able to block his shot at the last moment. “We knew he had it in him,” Mourinho said of his charge.
In the end, Benfica took the last promotion 24th place in the LM league table. She has nine points and a score of 10:12, while the teams Marseille and Paphos, Cyprus with a slightly worse score. Real took ninth place and narrowly missed out on direct progress to the round of 16.
Trubin’s goal almost destroyed not only the stadium, but also the Internet
Interest in Anatoly Trubin’s name on Google skyrocketed during the match.
Even before the match, people were hardly searching for him, but the moment he scored a goal, his name rose to the very top of the search within a few minutes.
The interest index graph (scale 0-100) looks like this:
Pre-match (20:00): Index 2 (regular interest).
The moment of the goal (22:58): Index 100 (the maximum possible popularity that Google measures).
Fans in Portugal, where the match was played, in Ukraine, where Trubin is from, and also in France, became most interested in Trubin. It was there that Marseille fans found out en masse what happened in Lisbon – Trubin’s goal was eliminated by their team.
