In the early morning of May 28th, Beijing time, Real Madrid won the 14th Champions League in the history of the team and the first Champions League champion in the post-Cristiano Ronaldo era. Looking back on their winning course, they eliminated the star-studded Greater Paris and the top three teams of Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool in the Premier League, which can be described as full of gold and well-deserved as the first European giants. At the award ceremony of the Champions League final, Real Madrid legend Raul escorted the Big Ear Cup into the stadium, and held the trophy to celebrate himself first, and then Marcelo held it high, from a generation of famous players to active captains, which made people sigh: This is the inheritance, and this is the real Madrid heritage!
In fact, the course of Real Madrid in the Champions League is not smooth this season. After the group draw and the top 16 draw, the odds of Real Madrid winning the championship are ranked seventh. Paris, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool are all ahead of Real Madrid. In the second round of the group stage, it was unexpectedly lost to the Champions League rookie tiraspol 1-2 at home. However, after that, Galaxy Battleship won the first place in Group D with a wave of four consecutive victories, ending the journey of the group stage.
After entering the knockout stage, Real Madrid experienced the excitement of a roller coaster many times. In the quarter-final against Paris, it lost 0-1 away in the first leg, and fell behind 0-2 in the second leg, but Benzema stood up and scored a hat trick, just like the gods came down to complete a hat trick, helping the team to successfully turn defeat into victory and advance to the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-final against Chelsea, Real Madrid won 3-1 away in the first leg. In the second leg, Chelsea showed a very strong desire to attack, and turned away from customers. In the scene, Real Madrid was once suppressed and the total score was once 3-2. Fortunately, Rodrigo, a teenager who came off the bench, scored 80 minutes and dragged the game into overtime. In overtime, Benzema’s goal finally helped the team survive.
In the first leg of the semi-final, he lost to Manchester City 3-4, and returned to home in the second leg. After 90 minutes, Real Madrid was still 3-5 behind, and the promotion rate was less than 1%. Rodrigo once again became a magical substitute, scoring two goals in the last three minutes of the game and dragging the game into overtime again. In the fifth minute of overtime, it was the familiar name, Benzema, who scored the winning penalty to lead Real Madrid into Paris. In overtime, Benzema scored again, allowing Real Madrid to reach the final successfully.
In the final against the Red Army Liverpool, Real Madrid scored four goals, and Liverpool scored as high as 24. Under the great disadvantage, Brazilian vinicius sealed his throat with a sword, and goalkeeper courtois became the number one hero of Real Madrid. The whole audience made a high resistance to protect Real Madrid’s goal, and finally the score of 1:0 was kept to the end, and Real Madrid won the 14th Champions League trophy.
Before the Champions League knockout, even Real Madrid fans found it hard to believe that their home team could have the last laugh in successive matches against Paris, the Blue Army, the Blue Moon and the Red Army, but the championship details were really compelling.
In fact, when Ancelotti announced the starting lineup two hours in advance as usual, he had already created many historical records of the Champions League. First of all, Real Madrid set a new 67-year historical record, and sent four players with 100+ appearances in the Champions League to play in the Champions League final, which is the first time since the Champions League was founded in 1955. The four starting players who made 100+ appearances in the Champions League were Benzema, modric, Alaba and Cross, which showed the unique Champions League details of Real Madrid.
Among them, Benzema became the first among the stars and the new king of Real Madrid. At present, he is the player with the most appearances in the Champions League among the players in the team. The number of appearances in the Champions League reached 142, which tied Raul and ranked fifth in history.
Although the stars are shining, the veteran and young players of Real Madrid have maintained a strong desire to play and athletic ability. In this game, Cross ranked first in the final with a running distance of 12.14 kilometers, and modric also ran 10.48 kilometers.
In addition to the veteran, the young players are even more eye-catching. According to the statistics of UEFA official website, vinicius has become the king of running in the team, with a running distance of 122.5 kilometers in the Champions League. Almost all the 12 games that have been played have been galloped, with modric running 114 kilometers, ranking second, Benzema 111.1 kilometers, Cross 104.4 kilometers and Alabama 102.9 kilometers.
All this proves that it is no accident that Real Madrid has successively counterattacked and eliminated Greater Paris, Chelsea and Manchester City. They fought until the last moment in every game. Such team spirit and attitude are the real details. Even Dong Lu, a well-known media person who has always been picky, said that he was convinced: "Real Madrid, you can’t even describe it as" good "or" bad "-because legend is legend! Real Madrid, I’m impressed! Legend is legend! "
After Real Madrid won the championship, nine players joined Cristiano Ronaldo’s "Five Champions League Champions" ranks, namely carvajal, modric, Benzema, Cross, Na Qiao, casemiro, Marcelo, isco and Bell. Coach Carlo Ancelotti won his fourth Champions League trophy, which led Real Madrid to win twice and AC Milan to win twice. In addition, Benzema was crowned the Golden Boot Award for the first time. I believe there is no suspense in the Golden Globe Award.
As for Mbappé, who made a lot of noise before the Champions League final, it didn’t seem so important this night. In the mouth of florentino, the president of the club, it was nothing, because they had told the world football in the simplest and most straightforward way: Who is the real king?
Upstream journalist Tang Hao
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