In a resounding result, Spanish club Real Madrid, who has won the Champions League 13 times, fell at home to the humble Moldovan Sherif Tiraspol 1-2, in the second round of Group D competitions, on Tuesday.
The defeat came in conjunction with the return of Real Madrid to its famous stadium, "Santiago Bernabeu" in the Champions League, after a year and 7 months of its closure, to carry out comprehensive updates.
The Moldavian champion achieved a historic achievement by defeating the "Royal" in the capital, Madrid, after he had opened the scoring through the Uzbekistani loaned from Legia Warsaw, Poland, Yasurbek Yachchiboev (25), before grabbing the winning goal in the deadly time thanks to Luxembourgish Sebastian Thiel (90).
French striker Karim Benzema equalized with a penalty kick in the 65th minute.
Real only failed to score at the Santiago Bernabeu once in their last 37 matches in the group stage of the Champions League, and that was after losing 3-0 to CSKA Moscow in December 2018, knowing that the club's goal-scoring rate was close to 3. goals per match.
Real Madrid played the match without Frenchman Ferland Mendy, Brazilian Marcelo, Dani Carvajal, Dani Ceballos and Welshman Gareth Bale due to injury.
It seemed that the visiting team was living a fairy tale after it managed, with its first shot in the first half, to open the scoring, unlike the course of the game.
Benzema tried to compensate and the goalkeeper stood on the lookout (31), so the chances of the Madridista club followed with the Brazilian Vinicius Junior (35), the Belgian Eden Hazard, Nacho and Benzema within one minute (37), and finally with the Brazilian Casemiro (43), to end the first half with 13 shots for Real, For only two for Sheriff Tiraspol.
As was expected, Real entered the second half pressing to equalize, and achieved his goal after the referee returned to the "mouse" technique to award a penalty kick after Ado's mistake on Vinicius, which Benzema successfully executed in the upper right corner.
Sheriff Tiraspol believed that he had achieved the impossible by scoring through Brazilian Bruno Silva, but the "Var" again intervened in favor of Real this time to confirm an offside case in the 72nd minute.
Goalkeeper Athanasiades stood in the way of Real Madrid's attacks, starring in front of Croatian substitute Luka Modric (74) and Brazilian Eder Militao (77), before Thiel snatched the historic winning goal in the deadly time.
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