This is a modern version of the 10 requirements of the club legend Juanito for “Remontadas” – in essentially the club’s script, which has begun to talk about beating opponents on the bus in the first round. Thanks to a series of epics from the 1980s, the former winger became synonymous with his comeback and his name will be called to many in the next few days.
The Madrid Industrial Park has begun efforts to create the “Ambiente de Remontada”, a comeback atmosphere. Few people in football like it. Even if the atmosphere of the Bernabeu begins, even the leading team will be defeated.
As Juanito told Inter Milan’s Graziano Bini when she made a 3-0 comeback in the 1984-85 UEFA Cup final, “It was a long time in Santiago Bernabeu”. Three minutes can be awful. You just need to check out the famous 3-1 victory in the 2021-22 Champions League semifinals. Part of it depends on this famous “halo”, from the city to Bayern Munich and Chelsea all feel at the Bernabeu.
Arsenal will face the same situation. The stadium is full of faith and radiates among the players. This is not a supporter culture, its identity has any classic football neurosis. If you sit down in Bernabeu, you’ll almost certainly see a middle-aged man wearing an expensive leather jacket, blowing a giant cigar and saying, “Of course, we won’t lose – we’re Madrid!” Suspicion didn’t really step in. Even if they still drop to three goals in the second half of the second leg, the singing will start, “si se puede” – Yes, we can. In the first leg of the European knockout tie, no club successfully returned from at least two goals instead of Madrid. 15 Champions League titles have been completed 9 times. In fact, Barcelona has eight players and Manchester United has five. Four of Madrid also participated in the European Cup or Champions League. Of course, Paris Saint-Germain and the 2021-22 City Games aren’t even on this list, as Madrid only had two times in the second leg process.
Carlo Ancelotti’s team gave them less time to make such comebacks, but they are still managing it. The list will be raised very well over the next few days, as follows: Start talking about destroying the opponent in the second round when you return to the bus after the first round; remind everyone every day that you are going to win and then write down on the wall of the locker room. Intimidate the opposition by looking them in the eyes before the game and letting them think you may have any ability. If you win the coin toss, choose Kick Out to get the first kick; enter the opponent’s area immediately and create an opportunity to move the crowd forward. Make the first foul of the game, make it tough; have the first photo of the game, and then make it noisy; come out earlier after the half, so the opposition arrives and you’re ready. Don’t let the opposition divide into half of yours; keep the maximum intensity and the crowd immersion.
Madrid will try to do a lot on Wednesday. This does not mean it is any guarantee.
That’s why Madrid is trying to get you to think. Madrid has not recovered from a 23-legged defeat in European history. Ruud Gullit said in Milan in 1988 that you have to remember playing the team, not the shirt.
