Miguel Delaney: How do Real Madrid keep creating magic in the Champions League?
Carlo Ancelotti celebrates with Antonio Rudiger (left) and Vinicius Junior after Real Madrid's Champions League semi-final victory.
“It’s something unexplainable,” Carlo Ancelotti said, more than once, on a night when he could have been talking about any number of elements. The Real Madrid manager was of course talking about his team’s astonishing capacity for victory in this competition.
On the other side, looking at such relentless winners, Harry Kane was struggling to work out another high-profile defeat. And that was the thing – he really looked beaten. It was impossible not to feel sorry for Kane, especially given what the scenario was as he went off with what Thomas Tuchel said was a back injury. That was the 85th minute and Bayern Munich had one foot in the final. They were 1-0 up, and Real Madrid just couldn’t seem to find a way through Manuel Neuer. He had been brilliant, which made it more inexplicable that he spilled the ball at Joselu’s feet in the crucial moment.
