Arsenal 3 Real Madrid 0

It would be a huge surprise if you failed to add to the tally at the Bernabéu. Madrid's defensive record at home is awful.

Not a single clean sheet at home in the CL or Spanish Cup, and only one in their last 12 home games overall.

Arsenal were very good and Real Madrid didn't show up.

Bar a few misplaced passes early on Arsenal weren't troubled.

Though had it not been for 2 world class free kicks this would probably have ended 0-0 because of a lack of firepower which i suspect will catch them out in the end but I don't see Real scoring 4 without reply in the away leg.

Semis at least for Arsenal.

This is not a wum, but if Chelsea can do it twice, then surely Arsenal can make a London contribution, and not before time !

Mbappe had a couple of good chances. Vini will need to turn up big time for Madrid to have any chance

It's far from over, though clearly we have a big advantage now. I don't think we can just park the bus at their place because if they get a first half goal the pressure will be immense.

I'd give us a 70% chance now (had us at 20% before the first leg!) but still need a big performance their

Agree! Was nice to see REAL get their arrogant backsides kicked with all the world watching. The tie is not over yet, but just seeing the look on Real's on-field and sideline faces was a joy to see!!!

" 12th of December, 1984. Real Madrid 6 – 1 Anderlecht: the era of the comebacks is born.

The promotion of the whole Quinta to the Primera División squad created a fantastic mixture between incumbents – seasoned players like Jose Antonio Camacho and Miguel Porlán “Chendo”, who never gave up on any ball, play or match but who were technically average – and newcomers, who played with flair and classy abandon even when they were behind on the scoresheet.

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With Juanito & Valdano still on the side
That combination between guts and class became perfect during the consecutive UEFA Cups won by Real Madrid in 85 and 86, almost twenty years after their last European title. No matter how poor the result had been in the away leg, every Madridista in the city knew it would be turned around at the Bernabeu, with the lucky South End goal as the preferred location to stage the comeback.

During those two seasons, the Merengues managed to overcome deficits of two goals or more in eight different knock-out rounds, thus eliminating opponents such as Internazionale de Milan (twice), Borussia Monchengladbach or AEK Athens. However, the most memorable encounter happened against RSC Anderlecht.

At that time, the Belgians had put together a fantastic squad, which featured a very young Vincenzo Scifo, plus legends such as Morten Olsen and Frank Arnesen at the top of their game. Reigning champions of the UEFA Cup at that point, they had just eliminated Socrates’ Fiorentina with ease in the previous round, scoring six times in the return match in Brussels.

In their first leg against Real Madrid they picked up where they had left off with Viola. 3-0, with all the goals scored in the last twenty minutes and the rewarding feeling of a job well done. Indeed, they thought it was all over.

Anderlecht’s stuttering display in the return match saw Jorge Valdano employ a psychological term to describe what most teams went through when they visited the Bernabeu in one of those European comebacks: “Miedo Escénico” (stage fright). No one could fail to feel intimidated by the almost demented way in which both players and supporters did their respective bits for each of those miracles to happen. The electric atmosphere in the stands where a collection of characters – nowadays priced out of the stadium – screamed expletives and sang non-stop, still make many of us long for those magical nights. But in my memories, and bizarre though it may sound, it was the fans who fed off the amazing intensity of the players, and not the other way around. Most supporters went mad watching all eleven starters play like possessed men, something especially remarkable in the case of Míchel, in his own right one of the classiest wingers ever to play in Spain, but who only on these occasions found the correct amount of stamina to go with his deadly right foot.

In this match, the scared-to-death Belgians conceded four times in the first 38 minutes, plus two more in the first five minutes of the second half. Their 6-1 defeat, coupled with Butragueño’s first hat trick for the first team, showed that no comeback was too far-fetched for this team, even in Europe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TinKQkwj8Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyRt7NTf2Y