“Manchester City” in a cozy company.

May 17, 2023. Manchester City-Real Madrid 4-0

Alvarez’s goal made it possible to repeat Liverpool’s record set fourteen years ago. In the entire history of the Champions League, Real Madrid have only nine devastating defeats. Greater than yesterday, never lost. But even if you remember the past unsuccessful matches, it is difficult to find such helplessness of Benzema, Modric and Kroos as yesterday. But these are, unreservedly, great footballers. No Varane, Ramos, Casemiro and Ronaldo, but Real set traps for Manchester City players in Madrid. And in Manchester, the Spanish team was simply knocked out. Courtois helped us not lose too much, but the result is surprising.

September 18, 2019. PSG – “Real” – 3:0

Group stage match. Real Madrid’s only defeat in the easy group with Club Brugge and Galatasaray. In Madrid, the favorites of the quartet played 2:2, the first place was taken by the Parisians. At the time, they still didn’t know that a pandemic would cover the world in a couple of months. The position in the top four influenced the fate of the clubs. Real Madrid met Manchester City in the first round and were eliminated. Tuchel with PSG he overcame Borussia D, Atalanta and Leipzig, playing his first final. But he didn’t win, Bayern won.

March 5, 2019. Real Madrid – Ajax – 1:4

A nice win for ten Hag. A clear underestimation of the opponent by Real Madrid, deserved relegation after the victory away in Amsterdam. Too bad he didn’t play the wonderful Ajax of Tadic, Neres, Ziyech, van de Beek, De Jong and de Ligt in the final. He could become one of the successful losers. The Dutch went through Creamy and Juventus, but missed a confident victory over Tottenham. But they didn’t stand on ceremony with Real Madrid.

December 12, 2018. Real Madrid – CSKA – 0:3

The first team to defeat the great Real Madrid after a series of cup wins Champions Leagueit became exactly CSKA. Funny result. Despite three goals in Madrid and a victory over the favorite in Moscow, CSKA eliminated from the tournament, finishing in last place. The “real” defeat of Chalov, Vlašić and Oblyakov didn’t stop them from leaving the group. But ten Hag studied Gancharenko’s experience, defeated the “creamy” in the playoffs, as mentioned above.

April 24, 2013. Borussia D – Real Madrid – 4: 1

The Bumblebees knocked out a hapless version of Real Madrid before Ancelotti arrived at the club. Klopp crushed Mourinho, Lewandowski made poker. A rare occurrence in the Champions League. It was in the semi-final of the tournament, as it is now in Manchester. A blow to the pride of Ramos, Ozil, Modric and Ronaldo. A deserved victory for the Germans, they were much better. But Hummels, Götze, Gundogan and Reus didn’t have enough strength to overcome Heynckes’ Bayern in the final.

March 10, 2009. Liverpool – Real Madrid – 4: 0

Met “Liverpool” Benitez after two Champions League finals and “Real” Juande Ramos. Experts were waiting for the fight, because the Spaniards had European champions and tough foreigners on the field. But nothing happened. Casillas got Torres wrong, Gerrard twice and Dossena once. Raul, Guti, Robben and Sneijder failed to score at Anfield Road once. The aggregate score is 5:0 in favor of the English. But then they were set to fly out of Chelsea after two intense shootouts.

September 13, 2005. Lyon – Real Madrid – 3: 0

Then Benzema fell ill against Real Madrid. The young Lyon player was seventeen years old, supported by Juninho, Carew, Malouda, Fred and Wiltord. If the Brazilian leader of the French beat Casillas on penalties in the first half, then Lyon could become the first club to crush Real Madrid by four goals in the Champions League. But even a 3-0 was enough to understand that Lushemberga would not have become the “creamy” king of football in Europe. That season Real Madrid will be eliminated in the first round by Arsenal.

September 15, 2004. “Bayer” – “Real” – 3: 0

Weak satisfaction for the defeat of Bayer in the Champions League final. But the Germans at least satisfied the fans in the group stage. Bundesliga clubs lead Real Madrid to the Champions League. The result of that fight is not surprising. Del Bosque was no longer at Real Madrid. The strange coach Camacho could not stop Berbatov’s cunning team. As a result, the Spaniards will be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by Juventus in extra time.

March 8, 2000. Bayern – Real Madrid – 4: 1

It is surprising that since 1992, Real Madrid did not suffer a crushing defeat in the Champions League until March 8, 2000. Many giants at that time opened the ranking of the worst matches. Madrid resisted. But Bayern, who lost the trophy to Manchester United in Barcelona a year earlier, rallied against Real Madrid in their second group stage match. The goals were scored twice by Scholl, Elber and Zikler. Casillas was upset with his defense after the unfortunate end to the fight. That season, Real Madrid will hardly qualify from the group on equal points with Dynamo Kyiv. And then Del Bosque will pass Manchester Unitedhe will take revenge against Bayern and beat Valencia in the final.

Defeating Real Madrid in the Champions League is a rare event

It is significant that nine losses created nine different teams in 24 years. Twice no “creamy” beat. Yesterday Ancelotti typically tapped his fingers on his lips and scratched his head, getting nervous. Carlo honestly admitted that he was confused and surprised. He doesn’t understand what happened. The Italian is confident that he will continue coaching Real Madrid, but let’s look at Perez’s decision. This is only the fourth defeat of the Madrid giant in the Champions League playoffs. And the most painful. Manchester City with the Catalans on board goes further, the European Cup will have a new owner. By the way, the team that defeated Real Madrid never won a trophy that season. Guardiola wants to break this tradition.