subway instead of miracles
Real fans missed “hero story”
5/5/2022 3:02 p.m
It really didn’t look good: In the 90th minute, Real Madrid needed two goals against Manchester City to keep their hopes of reaching the Champions League final. Many fans have already lost hope and are leaving. You will be severely punished for impatience.
For some fans, the magical football night in Madrid turned into a personal disaster. Because they no longer believed in progressing after Real Madrid’s 1-0 deficit in the Champions League semi-final against Manchester United and then at least didn’t want to queue in the subway, numerous fans left the Bernabeu early. And should bitterly regret their decision. Because Rodrygo, who came on for ex-national player Toni Kroos, forced extra time with his two goals in the final phase (90th / 90th + 1 minute).
After the equalizer to make it 1-1, many fans who had paid a lot of money for their tickets wanted to go back to the stadium but were not allowed to, as the Spanish newspaper “Marca” reported with reference to a corresponding regulation by the club. And so they sometimes had to watch on their cell phones in front of the stadium as the royals turned the game around through Karim Benzema in the 95th minute and pure ecstasy broke out. Unfortunately without her.
It’s no consolation that the impatient Real fans share their fate with some Borussia Dortmund supporters: They fled the stadium too early in 2013 in BVB’s quarter-final second leg against FC Malaga. And missed how the Bundesliga side turned a 1-2 lead into a 3-2 with two goals in added time – and thus made it into the semi-finals. The boulevard then spoke of the “Dortmund idiots”.
“Never underestimate the heart of a champion,” tweeted Norway’s world chess champion Magnus Carlsen. Should have said the fans who, according to “Marca”, missed the “greatest heroic story ever told”. In the final on May 28 in Paris against Liverpool, no one should leave the Prinzenpark prematurely.