After 90 breathtaking minutes at the Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid is the team that reached the 2023/24 Champions League final with extraordinary bravery.

One of the most exciting matches of the 2023/24 Champions League has just taken place. 3 goals were scored and Real were the ones to move on.

Despite being behind in the 68th minute after Alphonso Davies’s masterpiece, in just 3 minutes, substitute striker Joselu destroyed the prospect of an all-German final. 

So what notable developments were there in the past 90 minutes at the Bernabeu? 

1. Brazilian duet

As usual, the duo from Samba Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo Goes are still the endless inspiration in every move of Los Blancos. These two stars show amazing chemistry with many situations of extremely smooth coordination in small groups. 

Although Vinicius did not directly score, the 23-year-old striker was definitely one of the best players in the match. With his speed and superior technical background, Vinicius made Joshua Kimmich have a difficult day when the German defender was overtaken by the home team’s winger 3 times. 

It was Vinicius’s long-range shot in the 88th minute that caused goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to make a mistake, thereby creating an opportunity for Joselu to equalize for Real. 

2. Sinner Neuer

It was Neuer’s disastrous mistake in the 88th minute that became the turning point for Los Blancos to create a miraculous comeback. 

Before making the mistake, the German star had an excellent match with 5 saves, including 3 situations where Neuer showed top reflexes and denied Rodrygo or Vinicius scoring opportunities. 

But it will all be meaningless because fans only remember the moment when Neuer missed the ball and created an opportunity to help Joselu score for Real. 

3. Unexpected hero 

Before the match, fans discussed among the “forest of stars” such as: Vinicius, Rodrygo, Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala or Leroy Sane, who would become the main character of the match, but in the end, the spotlight belongs to a “secondary double” like Joselu. 

The Spanish star was brought onto the field by coach Carlo Ancelotti in the 80th minute and that was all it took for the 34-year-old striker to create miracles at the Bernabeu. Joselu’s two quick goals reminded Real fans of the sublime double that Rodrygo scored against Manchester City two years ago, moments that only a team with the DNA of the Champions League king like Los Blancos can do. 

On the other side of the front line, Davies, who came on to replace the injured Serge Gnabry in the first half, may have been mentioned after the match, but Bayern’s failure overshadowed the Canadian star’s masterpiece. 

4. Tuchel’s mistake

After Davies opened the scoring in the 68th minute, Tuchel immediately withdrew the stars on the attack like Musiala, Sane, and Kane from the field to replace them with Kim Min-Jae, a central defender or the supporting pair of Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting with The defensive intention was to preserve the score even though the match had 20 minutes left to end.

And the 50-year-old coach’s calculations completely collapsed after Ancelotti sent Joselu onto the field, changing the entire situation. 

Tuchel made the mistake of ceding the game too early to Real, thereby causing the home team to immediately crumble under the stormy attack from the White Vultures.  

5. Controversy over extra time

In this match, Bayern was able to put the ball into Real’s net twice. In addition to Davies scoring, midfielder Matthijs de Ligt also made Andriy Lunin’s net vibrate in the final minutes of extra time, but referee Szymon Marciniak did not score. received by the referee team that midfielder Thomas Muller was in an offside position before passing the ball to De Ligt. 

But the slow motion that followed showed that this situation was a sensitive phase. However, semi-automatic offside detection technology and VAR were not involved.

On the sideline, Coach Tuchel and Bayern members were naturally dissatisfied with the decision of the Polish king in black.