In Saturday’s match against Mallorca, Real will conduct another exciting series of matches that, as far as the Champions League is concerned, will be very decisive, as the Txuri Urdin squad can eliminate the Portuguese Benfica, where they are fighting a fantastic double duel, a fight for the first two places. First, Mallorca, but it is impossible not to start focusing on the confrontation against the most successful club in Portugal.
La Real takes four points from the squad Roger Schmidt led by Rui Costawho have yet to score, so adding four points against them would guarantee a top three finish and stay in Europe and move closer to the round of 16 of the Champions League.
Before the start, ‘O Glorioso’, located in Pot 1, was above Real in the pools, but now there was a ‘sorpasso’ and on Tuesday a decisive battle will be held at the Estadio de la Luz in Lisbon before the 3,500 ‘enhance them’.
Real and Real Madrid of Portugal have little in common, but there is one thing that binds them: a terrible curse that has taken hold of them and has become a threat to both, which in the case of the Portuguese, moreover, is valid still.
The Curse of Béla Guttmann
Béla Guttmann coached Benfica in its most glorious period, the myth Eusebius and Columnthe squad that won the European Cup in 1961 and 1962, wresting it from Barça in Kubala first and in Real Madrid Di Stefano after.
After the first change in the Portuguese champion in signings from the colonies like himself Eusebius and make him a champion later, the Hungarian coach asked for a logical salary increase. Angry at such ‘audacity’, the then president, Antonio Carlos Cabraldecided to kick him out.
And here is the script of the story. Guttmann, dismayed and furious, declared: “I am empty. Without me, Benfica won’t win a European title for 100 years. 61 has passed and the influence of the so-called ‘Curse of Guttmann‘still standing.
Since then, they have fallen in five European Champions Cup finals (1963, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1990) and three UEFA or Europa League finals (1983, 2013 and 2014).
La Real, Comet became champions
For its part, the curse of Mr. Comet He lasted 74 long years at Real. And the glorious team blew it up in the 80s. In order to build the Atotxa in 1913, the velodrome had to be demolished, to the anger of the great man of San Sebastian cycling, whose prophecy seemed unbreakable: “La Real will never be champions,” exclaimed the vengeful man. Cometlaunching his particular anathema.
He was referring to the Cup, the only current title, which Real won four years ago. Seven decades later, in 1987, Arched the deceased’s mustache was shaved Comet in La Romareda, after stopping the last penalty against Atlético de Madrid. The team that had already won two League championships in 1981 and 1982, could do it all, even spells. And then the Real MagnetHe ended up burying the cursed spell in 2021 at Seville and against Athletic.
Source: La Verdad
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