Match Report Real Madrid 2-1 Sporting: Saved in the Last Minute

Real Madrid played today the first match of the Champions League in Santiago Bernabéu against Sporting of Lisbon and won in the very last minute thanks to a header from Morata. Los Blancos suffered a lot because the Portuguese side opened the score and Cristiano drew the game in the 88th minute with an amazing free kick. The hearts suffered until the last minute, when Morata scored the decisive goal.

Zinedine Zidane chose a very competitive line-up without many rotations. Varane returned to the defense with Sergio Ramos and the BBC played again a match from the beginning. The team managed by Zidane started the match trying to score a goal as soon as possible but a very good midfield of the Portuguese team stopped the attacks. We saw in the first half a very supportive Gareth Bale helping in the pressure and defending a lot. Kiko Casilla had to intervene several times from shots from out the box.

Sporting Lisbon started to be comfortable and began to control the game passing the ball in the midfield and looking for Dost to keep the ball the most time possible. At the end of the first half, Gareth Bale had to leave the game a few minutes because he had a knock with Coates and he had pain in his thigh.

Finally Gareth Bale could returned to the match in the second half. In the first 5 minutes Bruno César surprised the defense of Real Madrid and scored the first goal for the Portuguese beating Kiko Casilla. Los Blancos tried to find different variants but the Portuguese were very ordered and well positioned. The French manager believed in Lucas Vázquez being the first change of the match replacing Bale, who might be injured. In the last 10 minutes James entered in the field replacing Kroos, who had a yellow card.

The last 10 minutes of the match Real Madrid started to attack and attack and Los Blancos had many chances to score a goal but the bar and the safes of Rui Patricio prevented the goal. Cristiano Ronaldo had a free kick in the las 5 minutes and he didn´t missed it. An unstoppable free kick where Rui Patricio couldn´t do anything. Real Madrid made another come back in the Santiago Bernabéu. A great cross from James in the minute 93 and a superb header of Morata culminated the come back. Our players play until the end and once again we can say “90 minutes in the Bernabéu are very long”.