The whites lost their unbeaten record this season after 16 official games against Red Bull Leipzig. The first place in the group will be played on the last day of the Champions League
There was a time when winning in Germany was a Utopia. The numbers do not lie and show us that the whites are jinxed with the Teutonic country. The Madrid team only won one of their first 15 Champions League games on German soil and it was 2-3 at Leverkusen in 2000.
It seemed that curse had subsided in recent years considering that the Real Madrid had only lost two of their last 10 Champions League games in german soilbut in Leipzig old ghosts surfaced that seem not to have been erased from memory. The whites were losing 2-0 before the 20th minute.
This fact is not trivial, since it was the first time in history that whites they have been two goals behind in a Champions League match in the group stage in such a short time. Ancelotti’s team came out completely disconnected and still came close to rejoining the game.
Viniciuswith the second goal in his headed career, shortened distances establishing the 2-1but his determination was a mirage as Timo Werner gave the whites the finishing touch in the 81st minute. Rodrygo would enter the history of the white club being the youngest player in the history of Real Madrid to score a penalty in official international competition.
The Brazilian striker did it with 21 years and 289 days beating Raúl González Blanco, who scored from 11 meters in the Champions League against Dinamo kyiv on March 14, 2000 at the age of 22 years and 261 days. Rodrygo and Vinicius now add 12 and 11 goals, respectively, in the Champions League, eventually threatening records of great European scorers thanks to his young age.
The door is open again
Real Madrid once again showed a serious problem in keeping a clean sheet with their highest number of goals conceded this season with three. Real Madrid have only kept a clean sheet in 5 of the 17 games they have played this season and it was against Eintracht, Celtic, Leipzig, Getafe and Elche.
Thus the things, the team led by Carlo Ancelotti has reaped his fourth defeat in the Champions League in 2022 and only in 2001 (5) did the white team suffer more defeats in the same calendar year of the competition. Other calendar years in which he had four defeats were in 2000, 2008 and 2020.
The leader of the League has to finish the job in the last game of the group stage by beating a Glasgow Celtic that is already eliminated from the Champions League and even from the option of entering the Europa League. The Whites won 0-3 in Scotland and hope to endorse their first place at the Santiago Bernabéu in a week.