Today, May 24, 2024, is the 10th year since the conquest of the Tenthone of the most important and special days in the history of real Madrid because it brought the club back to the top after a 12 long year drought without being European champions and for the unprecedented winning cycle that started then and is still going. Few moments are marked by before and after football like the header of Sergio Ramos in Lisbon. A decade later, the Madrid will search on Wembley his sixth Champions of the last 11 editions against Dortmundsomething even the most optimistic Real Madrid fan couldn’t have dreamed of in May 2014.
Atlético arrived at the Da Luz stadium a week after becoming league champions on the final day at the Camp Nou. Madrid awaits them in the first European Cup final between two teams from the same city. The pressure is on the whites, forced to reign after 12 years, facing the prospect of an Atlético looking for its first European Cup.
The white club raises the Champions in Lisbon he is new Atlético de Madrid in a heart-stopping finale. The group of Simeon He was caressing his first Orejona but in injury time, at the 92nd minute and 48 seconds, he went out. Sergio Ramos with an unstoppable header from a corner kick Luka Modric to revive the dying painting of Ancelotti and take the game to extra time. Madrid narrowly escaped what would be the most painful defeat in its history in what was typically an epic.
In extra time, the whites were merciless to their eternal rivals, succumbing and tiring after holding off a Numantine defense against a desperate Madrid push, trailing on the scoreboard from the 36th minute due to a blatant error by Iker Casillas. With Di María (elected MVP), Marcelo and Isco (both from the bench) as great stilettos, Madrid broke the wall in the second half of extra time with goals from Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano from a penalty. But Madrid already knew they were champions as Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Ramos’ header 20 minutes earlier.
The goal of the former Madrid captain represented a turning point and a change of trend in contemporary football, an impulse without which the victories of the four subsequent Champions Leagues would not be understood. The goal also fueled the epic story of a Madrid that used the mystique and legend of the European Cup to make its history bigger.
Source: La Verdad
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