2013 against Borussia Dortmund
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This was one of the most memorable matches of Real Madrid in a while. In the end, a Real Madrid win would have made this one of the greatest ever comebacks by a team, but it wasn’t to be.
Dortmund took an astonishing 4-1 lead from the first leg. The German side were just ruthless and the tie was lost in the hearts of many Real Madrid fans. However, Los Blancos didn’t give up and kept on fighting.
The second leg seemed like a regular affair with Dortmund trying to shut the Merengues out. And it was working. For 82 minutes, Dortmund guarded the goal with relative ease until Karim Benzema was subbed in. In the 83rd minute, Karim Benzema, from nowhere and against the run of play, scored the first goal of the second leg.
That seemed to fire up the team as five minutes later, Sergio Ramos, playing as an emergency striker at that point, slotted him from a Benzema cut-back. Dortmund were slipping, Sven Bender knew it all too well and hence exaggerated contact by going on the ground and wasting some minutes so that Real lose the flow.
And that was what happened ultimately as Real Madrid couldn’t get the third goal and progress to the final.
First leg score: Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid
Aggregate score: Borussia Dortmund 4-3 Real Madrid
