Chapter 1: What happened in the Real Madrid vs. Benfica match?
Benfica have a two-man advantage. If they can get a goal, they head into the top 24 and their season in Europe will be extended. Jose Mourinho tells them to just go for it. Might as well send his goalkeeper up there.
Oh, what a night it was for Benfica against the Champions League. Classic against Real Madrid. I don't speak Portuguese. I do not need to. Brutal. It's saying in Portuguese, pressing marca. I do speak Spanish. It is saying here, Mourinho, giving them a lesson.
Chapter 2: Why are Real Madrid players upset after the defeat?
A lesson from Mourinho. What a night it was. We are still talking about it here in the FGNF. Here in the studio, we're joined today by Sid Lowe and Jan Agafjortoft as well to look back on the night that Benfica got themselves into another little chance to have a go at the Champions League this season and have some major consequences for Real Madrid who fell out of the direct qualification spot.
So I'll start with Sid Lowe. I think I can start with Sid Lowe. He's got a needy dog in the corner of his house.
Is he there?
Chapter 3: What are the consequences of Real Madrid's loss in the Champions League?
Yes, he is. Tell us what the reaction's been in Madrid to yesterday's results.
the reaction has been lots of barking and whining oh no sorry that was the dog um i've actually i've actually had my son's just crept in and and carried the dog out so hopefully i can give you the reaction the reaction has been one of obviously amazement at the way that it happened but also that the focus despite that extraordinary ended and and from my point of view at least you know that the story of course is a goalkeeper scoring a goal in the 97th minute but
But the focus in Madrid has been about an analysis of Real Madrid and where they're at. And that sense of the improvement that everybody thought they saw, and I include myself in this, against Villarreal at the weekend was absolutely absent in the Champions League in midweek. Now, of course, look... I think at times we over-dramatise not getting in the top eight.
It's just another round of the Champions League and it's another round that Real Madrid, in theory, should win. They might even face Benfica again. If not, it would be Bodo Glint, of course.
Chapter 4: What insights does Jan Aage Fjortoft provide about the UCL League Phase?
And so it's not a crisis yet, but it's in the context of everything that's happened over the last five or six weeks. And in that sense, it feels like a really very significant setback.
Yes, absolutely. So that's the big story from Real Madrid, and we'll get more to that in a minute. But given that we've got a goalkeeper in the studio today, it is time to talk about what Trubin did on the night at Xhaka.
It's incredible. Listen, on the one hand, Benfica thought they'd gone through, then all of a sudden, late, realising... that they needed this goal. Goalkeeper goes up, and I have to say, it's an incredible header. It really is.
Chapter 5: How did Lamine Yamal perform in the recent match?
Centre forward's a header, isn't it? It's a hell of a header, I have to say. To credit to him. Ordinarily, goalkeepers go up there, and I'm very guilty of this, and you're not quite sure what to do. You're a little bit worried if the ball falls to you, and that's happened to me before. But you have to say, well executed. In a round of football that...
supposed to be kind of drama free given while we were discussing the format a couple of days ago um that ending is just storyboard yeah i think sid's dog might be a madridista because i can definitely hear a while and let's get word from your reaction to what we saw on the benfica side of things yan unbelievable right
Yeah, it was fantastic. And I mean, we all tried to, we were all working on Champions League last night and we would try to cope with everything that was going on.
Chapter 6: What are the reactions to Mourinho's tactics during the match?
And when you saw the scenes on the bench, back in the days, I was involved something in a Bundesliga where they had to find out on the table that we needed another goal. And the same thing happened over with Benfica, they just realised, well, it's not enough to beat Real Madrid.
We think we can hang in there with a 3-2 win and then they kind of get signals into them and they need a goal and, of course, Mourinho. Mourinho's been away for a while with his big, big successes and then he kind of gets his goalkeeper up and Rubin... with the header, I agree with the boys. I mean, that header, I mean, that is, Steve Nicholl, that is John Toshack. That is fantastic.
That is great to go back to one of the good oldies.
Yeah, and Steve, he's nodding along there.
Chapter 7: What does Sid Lowe say about the atmosphere in Madrid after the loss?
But one of the amazing moments, Sid, and I know you were talking to our producer about this yesterday, was the fact that Trubin's gone on to do that. And just before that, he didn't even know that his team needed an extra goal.
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Yeah, this is my favourite bit. For what it's worth, can I just have a slight moan here? I want a new rule in football, and that new rule in football, I want automatic yellow card for every goalkeeper who catches a ball and for no reason whatsoever throws himself on the floor.
I haven't had to dive to catch that ball.
Get up or it's a yellow card. Yes, yes, yes. So there he goes.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications for Real Madrid moving forward in the league?
So you get Trubin, go to ground, hold on to the ball. He thinks he's wasting time. He thinks, isn't this great? We're 3-2 up. And I love that little bit of footage where it pans the director's box. And Rui Costa is effectively saying,
What's this idiot doing?
We've got to score another goal. Nobody knows. Mourinho admitted after the game that he wasn't sure at first either. Suddenly he gets the message, boots it out of the pitch, free kick, and then up he goes. Mourinho says, yeah, go on, get into the area. Do you know what I thought? Honestly, Kay, I mean, you obviously know this because you've covered Real Madrid and lived in Madrid for long enough.
When it was 3-2 and Benfica had a free kick, honestly, I thought, this is where the free kick gets cleared and some Real Madrid player runs up the pitch to an open goal and makes it 3-3. The fact that it was 4-2 and the way he takes it, it's just brilliant.
So we can just see what the guys thought there of yellow cards for the time wasted, Stevie. What are you thinking of that?
Absolutely, 100%. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Just falling on the floor. I mean, imagine if a player just fell on the floor. They'd do that all the time. They don't get away with it.
What if our co-workers made a career doing that?
I mean, Emi Martinez, John Pickford. I mean, all of them.
But I don't... There's a lot of them that don't know. Shekhar, I know you're standing up for the goalkeepers, but I don't need a new rule for that. That is just, like, what they're doing is just ridiculous. There are rules for ridiculousness.
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