Soccer Football - Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Manchester City - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - May 4, 2022 Real Madrid's Karim Benzema celebrates scoring their third goal with teammates REUTERS/Isabel InfantesSoccer Football - Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Manchester City - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - May 4, 2022 Real Madrid's Karim Benzema celebrates scoring their third goal with teammates REUTERS/Isabel Infantesthe...
“Real Madrid are out of this world,” Madrid-based AS said in their headline, accompanied by a picture of the squad celebrating in front of a section of the home crowd. Sport newspaper simply went with “Incredible” after Real once again turned around a first-leg deficit following their last-16 win against Paris St. Germain earlier in the competition.“If PSG was already inexplicable, if Chelsea was already incredible, last night in Chamartin was, simply, the best night of a stadium that has seen this team in all colours and that is a lot to say,” read their lead story.
The Barcelona-based Mundo Deportivo described it as “Groundhog Day” while Catalan radio station RAC1 said “this is not football, it’s a paranormal phenomenon”. Real will take on Liverpool in a rematch of the 2018 Champions League final at the Stade de France on May 28.