‘Things have happened that no one could possibly imagine,” Carlo Ancelotti said, but you might have heard that one before. You might have seen something a little like this too: last time, for a start. And the time before that. Real Madrid’s players certainly had, that very morning. At the end of another night so ludicrous that in the middle of the madness, with the match still going on and tie not yet won, Marcelo grabbed his manager and actually started laughing, Ancelotti admitted that he had shown the squad a video depicting Madrid’s eight – eight! – comebacks. And that’s just this season.
At the end, he told them there was one missing.