Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
For the 18th time, Real Madrid will be in a UEFA Champions League final, after the exhibition that the merengue team gave at the Santiago Bernabéu by eliminating Bayern Munich 2 to 1, who arrived with all the heavy artillery in Spain, in search of the ticket to the last leg of the Champions League. However, Joselu became the executioner of the German team that finished 4-3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid brought out the “nature” of the king of Champions League cups in a match worthy of a Champions League semi-final, by eliminating Bayern Munich in the white house, with the figure of the night, Joselu, who He became the lifeguard of the Spanish club with the goals at 88′ and 90+1′. The match that ended with controversy also had a very intense start, with the first 45 minutes where Manuel Neuer was the most important figure for the Germans, with two interventions in a row that denied the whites a goal, especially by Vinicius and Rodrygo, who were on the lookout for the visitors’ goal.
On the other side of the Bernabéu, Lunin, the whites’ goalkeeper, only saw one dangerous opportunity come from the team led by Thomas Tuchel, who, although the team’s chances were fewer in the first section, took a different path in the second part.
The second half started with the score 0-0 and the aggregate 2-2 with which the German players arrived, but a change of pace meant the first for the Germans at 68′, after the action of Alphonso Davis in a long pass that he controlled by Lunin’s right side, and he sent a shot to make it 0-1.
But at 72′, the merengue team mounted the counterattack with a deflected shot from Valverde, from a corner that touched Nacho and he sent the ball into the net. However, the goal that meant the tie was annulled by the merengue player’s foul on Kimmich, who was thrown to the grass.
Carlo Ancelotti’s strategic play was not sterile with the departure of Federico Valverde and the arrival of Joselu on the field in the 81st minute, as the latter became the most important figure of the Spanish team to win the Champions League final, first with the goal at 88′, where the player took advantage of Neuer’s mistake, who received the ball but left it loose in the area and the meringue player pushed it into the net.
The second goal came at 90+1′, at the end of added time, after the visiting team’s completely disorganized defensive line and the appearance of Rüdiger, who opened up in the area to send the ball that Joselu took advantage of and finished in the goal of the Germans, this is how the merengue added the double to take their team to the top.
But in the last minutes of the match, one of the most controversial plays of the entire match came, since a Bayern shot that ended up inside the net was annulled because beforehand there was a flag raised by the line referee pointing outside. of game.
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