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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