Real Madrid are inevitable. Sometimes football can feel futile when you face the club that consider this competition their own. It doesn’t matter what you do, you’re doomed. However well you play, however brave you are, however many chances you make, however badly they play in fact, somehow you know. This is just what the men in white do. In short, as RB Leipzig found out, they win.
They faced a shot for each of their 14 European Cups yet won the first leg, Brahim Díaz scoring the only goal out of nowhere, and they suffered again in the second leg, playing to the sound of whistles from fearful fans, but still escaped into the last eight.
