On March 8, 2017, a new word appeared in the language of football lovers: “remontada”. That day, in Catalonia, the impossible happened: after a heavy defeat in the first leg (4-0), FC Barcelona defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League with a score of 6-1, against all expectations, defying all predictions. A crazy scenario that Karim Benzema’s Real Madrid managed to impose on their opponents three times in 2022 to win their fourteenth Champions League…
Yet there were many other fantastic comebacks in the history of football. Like that of FC Metz, in 1984, against… Barça. Beaten 2-4 at home, the Lorraine won 4-1 at Camp Nou. After the first leg, defender Luc Sonor remembers the chambering of the German Bernd Schuster: ” If this team eliminates us, I offer the ham to everyone. »
Remontadas: Sunday February 12 at 9 p.m. on Canal+
FRÉDÉRIC LOHÉZIC
