Keeper’s wild 98th minute goal stuns Real Madrid

In one of many wildest Champions League finishes in current reminiscence, Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin scored a 98th-minute header to knock European heavyweights Real Madrid out of the Champions League high eight with a 4-2 victory.

Benfica have been heading for elimination regardless of main 3-2 with seconds of stoppage time remaining earlier than Trubin met a free kick to attain the goal they wanted to qualify for the playoff spherical on goal-difference on the expense of their glamour membership opponents.

Real had hoped to complete within the high eight however their 15 factors from eight video games was not sufficient as they slumped to ninth and so they completed the match with 9 males as Raul Asencio and Rodrygo have been despatched off.

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Andreas Schjelderup scored two targets for Benfica and Vangelis Pavlidis netted from the penalty spot, whereas Kylian Mbappe netted twice for Real in a vastly entertaining, end-to-end contest.

Benfica supervisor Jose Mourinho described the last-gasp goal scored by Trubin as a “historic” achievement.

Pissed off Real coach Alvaro Arbeloa, in the meantime, highlighted a litany of shortcomings in his facet’s efficiency after their hopes of automated qualification have been dashed and so they needed to accept a spot within the two-legged playoffs.

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For Mourinho, it was an emotional night time on the Estadio da Luz, capped by a rare 98th-minute header from Trubin that ensured Benfica snatched a last-16 spot on goal distinction.

The Portuguese supervisor was visibly moved as he spoke to Movistar Plus after Benfica’s beautiful victory.

“It is regular for me to be emotional. I believe it was deserved,” Mourinho mentioned, reflecting on the depth of the competition and the dramatic finale.

“For Benfica, it is clearly unimaginable status to beat Real Madrid. The 2 golf equipment hadn’t confronted one another for the reason that unbelievable years, so a few years in the past. And now, for Benfica’s status, for the gamers’ status, it is one thing unbelievable.”

The groups final performed one another within the European Cup within the quarter-finals in 1965, when Benfica went on to lose the ultimate, and likewise met within the 1962 showpiece gained 5-3 by the Portuguese.

Mourinho heaped reward on 24-year-old Trubin, whose header from a stoppage-time free kick despatched the group into raptures.

“I knew we weren’t via but, that 3-2 wasn’t sufficient, and we have been fortunate with a set piece,” Mourinho mentioned.

“Our goalkeeper Trubin, who is 2 metres tall, went into the field and scored a unbelievable goal, a historic goal… it felt just like the stadium was going to break down. Unimaginable.”

In distinction, Real’s Arbeloa was left to rue a poor show by his facet that noticed them lose a 1-0 lead and end with 9 males after Raul Asencio and Rodrygo have been despatched off in added time.

The defeat sends the 15-times Champions League winners into the playoff spherical, the place they need to try and salvage their European marketing campaign.

“After all we’re removed from blissful. Fairly the opposite,” Arbeloa mentioned. “In a match the place we knew what was at stake, we merely did not rise to the event.

“I would prefer to let you know that it was only one factor that led to this defeat, however I believe there have been many facets – adversity in duels, points with the ball and with out the ball. We have been a great distance from the model of ourselves that we must be.”

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Addressing the purple playing cards, Arbeloa mentioned tensions boiled over. “Typically these are conditions the place you may’t management your feelings, understanding what was at stake. That is all there’s to it.”

For Mourinho, the victory was as a lot a lift for the membership’s stature because it was for his or her Champions League prospects.

Arbeloa should now put together his facet for the playoffs as he makes an attempt to get Real’s season again on observe after former supervisor Xabi Alonso’s sacking and the staff being knocked out of the Spanish Cup last-16 by second-tier Albacete two weeks in the past.

– with Reuters