MADRID, 6 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
Real Madrid is measured this Wednesday in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the 2021-2022 Champions League against English Chelsea, a team with which it does not have a rivalry specialty compared to others from the Old Continent, but it is has historically choked. In fact, he has never been able to beat him in the five occasions that they have faced each other and the ‘blues’ took two titles from him. We review these five duels between the Madrid team and the London team.
1. Neither in the final nor in the tiebreaker in Gento’s goodbye. The first time that Real Madrid and Chelsea met was with a title at stake. In the season 1970-1971 the two clubs fought for the trophy of the now defunct Recopa and the Madrid team could not win it, despite having two options to do so.
And it is that that edition of the competition needed a playoff game in Athens after Zoco managed in the 90th minute to equal Peter Osgood’s goal at the beginning of the second half. Two days later, the London team was superior and won the cup by defeating 2-1 with goals from Dempsey and Osgood for the ‘blues’ and Fleitas for the madridistas. This was the last game of a myth of Real Madrid like Paco Gento.
2. Another lost final. It took almost three decades for the two teams to cross paths again in European competition and it was again in a final, that of the 1998 Super Cup. Real Madrid had won the ‘Seventh’ and was favorite against Chelsea, champion of the UEFA Cup and who also won the title thanks to a goal in the 83rd minute by the Uruguayan and former Zaragoza Gustavo Poyet.
3. Goodbye to the dream of the ‘Decifourta’. Finally, Chelsea were also firm in the last game, the semifinals of the Champions League last year where gave a feeling of superiority both at the Alfredo Di Stéfano and at Stamford Bridge. In Madrid, in the first leg, he scratched a valuable tie to one with Benzema equaling Pulisic’s initial goal, and in London hardly gave options to close the past to the possible ‘Fourteenth’ against Zinédine Zidane’s men, winning 2-0 with goals from Werner and Mount.