The mind games almost started as soon as the last pipe in the Emirates stage sounded.
Real Madrid’s players and managers stumbled across themselves to declare their trust in a comeback against Arsenal as the first leg after their quarter -finals of the Champions League. “If there is a team that can turn over a 3-0 defeat, it is Real Madrid,” said Lucas Vazquez and repeated the same feeling of Raul Ascio, Kylian Mbappe and Carlo Ancelotti.
Jude Bellingham doubled this attitude a day before the excited collision in the Santiago Bernabeu and insisted that this scenario was “tailored” for a club with Real Madrid’s famous story.
The club’s social media account indicated the comeback call with a provocative contribution on the morning of Wednesday.
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– Real Madrid CF (@Realmadrid) April 16, 2025
“Noventa Minuti en El Bernabeu, son Molto Longo” was the mutilated Italian sentence, which the legendary midfielder Juanito came back in 1985. Inter had won the first leg of a UEFA Cup 2-0 in San Siro, but the spoken Spaniard was not decreasing. “90 minutes in Bernabeu are very long.
Madrid came to a 3-0 victory in the second leg in front of her home fans and brought the “Spirit of Juanito” to the world – the idea of using Bellingham’s sentence “if there is a place where crazy things can happen, it is our house”.
When Michel said the former Madrid midfielder, who was achieved in this inter -comeback 40 years ago: “The story of Real Madrid is full of games that were won at the last minute, and the opposition knows that history, history, history.
Not everyone is so interested in the idea of relentlessly returning into the past. With his warning, Juanito’s son Roberto offered hope for Arsenal a few years ago: “We lose every time they mention it for a comeback.”
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