“90 minutes at the Bernabéu are molto longo”
Year 1985, Real Madrid loses by 2-0 against Inter Milan in the first leg of their UEFA Cup tie of the season 1984/85. At that moment, The mythical Juan Gomez ‘Juanito’ left a sentence for history : “90 minutes at the Bernabéu are molto longo”. A way to explain how things like epic comebacks in European competitions could happen in the Madrid fief. something in season 2021-22 has made more sense than ever.
“90 minutes at the Bernabéu are molto longo”
And it is that the Santiago Bernabeu It has always been characterized by being a stage of European deeds but it is that the season 2021-22 it was a real bullshit. And it is that Real Madrid was KO and practically eliminated against PSG, Chelsea y Manchester City. And when everything seemed lost, the whites raised the 3 matches increasing the mystique of the mythical white temple.
The first to go through Calvary was PSG in the round of 16. the parisians won 1-0 on the way out and they got to put 0-2 in the return for what Real Madrid needed 3 goals to overcome a tie. Something I would get with a hat-trick by Karim Benzema.
The next to suffer “90 minutes at the Bernabéu are molto longo” it was chelsea. Real Madrid won 1-3 in London but later he came to lose 0 a 3 before the English who looked very happy until the minute 80 match in which Real Madrid scored the first goal and in which 96 when, of course, Benzema consummated another magical comeback.
But there was still the most difficult, the impossible, the sum of comebacks. And it is that Real Madrid was 2 goals below in the tie against Manchester City by Pep Guardiola in the minute 89. In the discount the tie had already been matched and on the way to extra time.
In added time with a penalty again Benzema was going to bring the tie back to the field of the madridistas who were going to get into the Champions League final 2021-22 after another epic comeback. And it is that in case it had not been clear in this article, 90 minutes at the Bernabéu are molto longo
