The Athletic FC

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akemu Lerre.

A champions league knockout classic that Real Madrid for once lost out in.

Eliminated at the hands of Bayern Munich,

they're now staring at a second successive season,

trophyless for the first time in 16 years.

So, just how broken are Rail Madrid?

All right, in with us for this one.

Our Real Madrid correspondent, Gilein Moray, and also our La Liga writer, Dermot Corrigan as well.

So Madrid took the lead three times in the

alliance before two late goals from Bayern Munich, both from Luis Diaz and Michael Alise to knock

them out of the Champions League. At Dermot, we used to see in late drama, Remo Tardas, as we know,

from Real Madrid. But how difficult of defeat was this one to stomach for Madrid?

It was super entertainment all the way through, especially for the neutrals and for both teams

as well had their moments where they felt it was going their way in the game. But it was really

tough for Madrid to take. You could see at the end how they reacted. Artagula got a red card

for complaining to the

ref after the final whistle. And it is certain amount of sympathy for them because it was

quite a harsh red card for Camovina second yellow that he got, that he got sent off. And then

Byron took advantage immediately with the two quick goals and they went through. But that was the

kind of game that Arbelow wanted. He set up, they had to do something special. He built up the epicness of it, Madrid's history of comebacks. All that was talked about pre-game. He said that we're either going to come back on our shields or with our shields, you know, building up this, just this warrior kind of idea that he has around the team the glory of being Real Madrid.

And then he picked a really attacking team with six attackers, really. Fetti Valverde was holding the midfield and he's a guy who likes to get forward. More he'd Bellingham, Guler, Brahim, as well as Vincius and in Bapé. And they went for it. Super entertaining. Went to head three times, as he say. but if you get into that kind of a slug fest,

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