“The one who avoids the most blows and the one who inflicts the most damage wins”: How did the meringues survive in Munich for the Champions League?

In the tie between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich It does not matter how regularly the Bavarians arrived after their poor Bundesliga, nor if Madrid had destroyed the most dominant team in Europe, Manchester City. It doesn’t matter if one is fourteen and the other is only six. The only important thing is that when Madrid and Bayern look into each other’s eyes, they recognize each other as clubs with cup lineage and substance, and they face each other in a fratricidal battle that condemns them to leaving themselves lame, one-eyed and crippled if they want to eliminate themselves.

Because in a semi-final between Madrid and Bayern, the one who dodges the most blows and the one who inflicts the most damage wins. It is a shootout of unrepentant gunmen who empty their revolvers pointing at the heart. There has not been a single tie between these two transatlantic ships that has ended in a crushing victory – with a single recent exception, the five-nil overall in 2014 that would lead Madrid to win the tenth in Lisbon.

And so it happened on April 30 at the Allianz Arena in Munich. Madrid retreated during the first 15 minutes and Bayern pressed with a full Sané who appeared from the right or left and with an associative Kane who escaped Rüdiger and Nacho. But Madrid resisted the attack and under the leadership of Mr. Soccer, Tony Kroos, took over the center of the field. From then on, the German eight dictated the notes, distributed front changes like someone adjusting the buttons on his shirt, and invented a quarterback pass that only he and Vinicius Jr. saw.

The Brazilian took the bait to the best friend that Madrid had in Munich, Kim Min Jae, he went into space and defined by placing it on the left side of Neur who punched the grass out of helplessness. Madrid needs one to destroy you. With Vinicius Jr., there are no more jokes, he has abandoned the left wing and has become a free spirit who wanders wherever he pleases, few notice that he has become the most decisive Brazilian according to goals and assists in elimination phases of Champions.

The first half ended. And when Madrid was moving best, when the score was 0-2, another gifted player appeared who for the moment remembers that he has a gift, Sané, who took advantage of the heaviness with which Madrid defended after feeling comfortable, and shot Lunin with a sword blow to the near post. Different goal. And in less than 3 minutes, Musiala invented a mischief and after prancing around, he took advantage of all the ingenuity of Lucas Vásquez to defend and snatched a penalty from him that Kane kicked with great ease. The abyss appeared to Madrid.

And when Bayern pressed the most, when they forgave two clear ones, the other different one was present again, Vinicius Jr., who played for Rodrygo who invited Madrid’s best friend in Munich, Kim Min Jae, to the party, who gave him a clear penalty, and that Vinicius changed for a goal. Madrid had survived Munich and will define everything at the Bernabéu.