MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid will cross on the sixth occasion, and for the first time in eight years, in the Champions League, with a fully favorable balance for the current champion of the tournament, which has never been eliminated by its neighbor and rival.
Real Madrid and Atlético crossed for the first time in Europe in the semifinals of the 1958-1959 edition of the European Cup, marked by equality, being necessary-since there was no double value of goals away from home-a third shock.
Thus, the Madrid team, who had won the first three editions of the tournament, won in his stadium by 2-1, with the goals of Rial and Puskas, of penalty, who turned the initial of Chuzo, while the rojiblancos won at home with some collar. Later Real Madrid would be crowned for the fourth time in the European Cup by beating the French Reims 2-0.
55 years had to pass for both Madrid teams to cross their destinations in the Old Continent, in the historic final of May 24, 2014 at the Da Luz Stadium, in Lisbon, the first between two teams in the same city. Real Madrid beat Atlético 1-4, but there was also a lot of equality since until the 93rd minute, the rojiblancos, which a week before had conquered the league title in the Camp Nou, won 1-0 thanks to the goal in the first half of Diego Godín.
Another central, Sergio Ramos, and also headed, agated the extension and there, with his rival sunk in morals and the physicist, the goals of Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo sentenced the ‘tenth’ for the Real Madrid players.
The rojiblanco team did not have to wait too long for the rematch because the following year they ran into the quarterfinals of the tournament, but could not complete it, since the white team was the one that took the ticket to the semifinals for a lonely goal in the final bars of the Vuelta in the Santiago Bernabéu of Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, after the goalless draw in the Vicente Calderón.
To the next campaign, again they crossed, and again with the title at stake, this time in San Siro (Milan), where Atlético prolonged his continental curse when losing the title again when he fell into the penalty shootout. Sergio Ramos advanced Real Madrid and Yannick Carrasco tied in the second part, while in the extension there were no goals and in the releases since eleven meters decided the mistake of Juanfran Torres.
The last confrontation between the two clubs in Madrid in the Champions League was the fourth consecutive in the 2016-2017 season, then in the semifinals, the last ones played by Atlético in the maximum continental competition. Cristiano Ronaldo was the great protagonist of the first leg at Santiago Bernabéu, where with a triplet he led the clear 3-0 victory that seemed to leave the tie sentenced.
Nothing is further from reality, the rojiblancos got 2-0 in the return in Calderón with many of Saúl Ñíguez and Antoine Griezmann at the fourth hour. However, a genius of Karim Benzema before the break caused the goal of Isco Alarcón and the end of Diego Simeone’s options, who needed three more goals to pass.