The luxury and comfort of the defender of the meringue are not measured by the number of champions leagues organized in the trophies cabinet. They reside in this irrational denial of the defeat that nothing can shake, not even a 3-0 granted in the first section of quarterfinal competition in the Arsenal grass. Year after year, the big European games have shown that Real Madrid had the gift of always getting out of it.
The fear that the irreversible cannot exist for those that history has always saved. “We are going to teach them that there are no barriers or limits,” warned the Spanish club in a video broadcast on its channel on the eve of the reception of the gunners. Who else in the world can take advantage of that confidence, if not arrogance, a week after being dead in Thames, and although the figures have enough to depend on the greatest optimists? Note: 4 % chances of qualifying and zero …