Merengue tension: Madrid have never qualified for the final without winning the first leg at home

The Real Madrid could attain go out with life of a party of gone of semifinals of Champions League in which Chelsea saw clearly very upper to the white group, and forgave him the sentence of the party in the first mitas of the commitment. The picture londinense went out with everything, but wasted a sinfín of occasions and counterattacks with numerical superiority, very clear. The goal of Pulisic did justice, but orna genialidad of Karim Benzema served of elixir to tie up the valuable 1-1.

A tie that, although it served him of break to the white picture, is not so alentador if they consider the precedents harvested by the Madrid and that it is abysmal augurio for his interests. And it is that, of the five previous opportunities that the team merengue has not been able to win the commitment of gone of the semifinals like venue, in any of them has attained to access to the final of the Champions League.

The white group has played in 19 occasions the semifinals like venue in the first party, and in 14 of them has gone out winning (only in one of these 14 did not put in the final). Of the others five chances, three ties (1-1 in front of the Bayern in the 1975/76, 1-1 in front of the PSV in the 1987/88 and 1-1 in front of the Milan in the 1988/89) and two defeats (in front of the Bayern in the 2000/01 and in front of the FC Barcelona in the 2010/11 by 0-2).

Therefore, the picture directed by Zinedine Zidane will have to rewrite the history if it wants to inscribe his name in the final of Istanbul of the next 29 May. It would be the fourth reached by the French technician in the white bench (has won 3/3 up to now). It is by this that the meeting that will be contested in the Stamford Bridge the next 5 May will be, undoubtedly, a big party.

Benzema, saviour

At present, the Real Madrid has a valuable angular stone that has name and surname: Karim Benzema. The French forward has known to answer by his team during this campaign. Thanks to his works, today the picture merengue continues in the fight by the championship of LaLiga, to the equal that stamped his name in the semifinals of the Champions.

It was the Frenchman the one who annotated the so much of the tie, and was he same the one who was about to to do it minutes before thanks to a powerful finish that it went with direction to the angle, but that crashed in the stick drowning him the holy cry until to the dessert was recompensado. Neutralise to Benzema will be the main task of Chelsea, as by him happen the triumphs of the Madrid. There will be a lot at stake, the history is called to keep , or to break .