Real Madrid 3 PSG 1 (Real Madrid win 3-2 on agg)
Carlo Ancelotti had said there was no need to go mad but no one was listening and why would they now? Suddenly there were a dozen men running down the touchline chasing Karim Benzema, the Frenchman disappearing under a pile of bodies while all round them 60,000 people completely lost their heads. The noise was so loud it made ears bleed.
How they won was barely believable, maybe even the most remarkable of an entire history of implausible tales at a club that specialises in them, another astonishing comeback completed, another epic European story. They had been gratefu …
- March 10, 2022
