Well, the second installment of Benfica vs. Real Madrid in the 2025–26 Champions League was certainly dramatic, but unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.
Vinicius Junior’s opening goal was tremendous, similar to his strike against Rayo Vallecano last month, only more venomous, yet it was the Brazilian’s sequence of brilliance in Lisbon that would ignite the scenes which Trent Alexander-Arnold would later describe as a ”disgrace to football.”
