Tomorrow's game against
Liverpool
will be special for
Real Madrid
.
On the one hand, the most logical, the white team could confirm their presence in the Champions League
quarterfinals
if they manage to defend the 2-5 win at
Anfield Road
.
He would eliminate one of the favorites for the title, knowing that
PSG
is already out , and would consolidate his season a bit while waiting for the return of the
Copa del Rey
and the attempted comeback against Barcelona in the League.
Lastly, the event will be special due to the number of matches that Madrid will play
in
the
modern Champions League
:
300
.
The first to reach this ceiling.
As much as it hurts the romantics, the
European Cup died in 1992
so that the
Champions League
was born .
A modern, different tournament, in which since 1997 not only the winners of the domestic leagues have had a place.
More teams began to participate, the group stage was created and the road to the title began to have more stones than ever.
Stones that Madrid, 30 years later, has dodged better than anyone.
The white team debuted late in the competition after the premiere of the new name.
Unable to win the League against Johan Cruyff
's Barça
, he had to fight UEFA until he managed to win the Spanish title to make the leap to the Champions League.
There, on
September 13, 1995
, he made his debut in the modern European Cup with a defeat against
Van Gaal's Ajax
by a goal from
Marc Overmars
.
It was in the
Olympic Stadium
of the Dutch city, while the
Amsterdam Arena
was being built , which a couple of years later would give away the
Seventh
to the whites.
Madrid was led by
Valdano
and on the pitch was led by a young man
Raúl González
, together with
Luis Enrique, Redondo, Hierro, Sanchís
and company.
It's hard to believe that that team that hadn't raised its 'ears' for three decades was capable of winning up to
8 color titles
.
The road to 300
Madrid would meet with their first victory a few days later, beating the Swiss
Grasshopper
with a brace from
Zamorano
.
They passed the group stage, a circumstance that they have achieved in their 27 appearances in the Champions League, and fell in the quarterfinals with Juventus
,
which Ajax would end up winning in the final.
The special dates have not been given entirely well to the white team.
He lost his first match and did the same at
number 50,
which he reached in the middle of the Russian winter.
With
Del Bosque
at the helm, he was defeated by
Spartak at the Luzhniki in Moscow
, in November 2000, still in the group stage.
Later, the
100th duel
, already in February 2004, would take place in the round of 16 against
Bayern
.
A tie in Munich that served to pass the round.
The
150th
was a
1-0 loss at Lyon
, in the 10th round of 09-10.
Sad day, the opposite of the
200th
: the
Lisbon final
against Atlético, in La
Décima
.
The
250th
, the last round figure, found the whites fighting again with
Bayern
, this time in the
2018 semi-finals
at the Bernabéu, where a 2-2 draw gave them a place in the Kiev final that Liverpool would win.
Tomorrow's duel, a European football classic, will come after Liverpool's 5-2 draw, a historic result for the '
reds
', negatively, and for Madrid, positively.
Benzema
will arrive at tonight 's appointment
, down against
Espanyol
but ready to play his
129th match in the Champions League
, with which he will match
Sergio Ramos
.
Far, although not impossible, the
150 of Casillas
.
If Madrid manages to win, it will also be a special night for
Ancelotti
, who beyond qualifying, oxygen for his bench, would achieve his
33rd victory
with the Whites in the Champions League, tying with
Del Bosque
for the club's all-time lead.
More challenges.
All
10,045 days after
that defeat in Amsterdam.
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