When Real Madrid met Miralem Pjanic | Sports | Soccer

It was the 2009/10 season and Real Madríd had started a new cycle. Florentino Pérez arrived to start his second term and the white team brought up the checkbook to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká, Xabi Alonso, Benzema and company. New campaign, new goals. The Champions, title that the merengue painting had been looking for since 2001, he was going to celebrate his final at the Santiago Bernabéu. Best impossible scenario to conquer the long-awaited ‘Decima’.

Real Madrid overcame the group stage of that Champions League and found themselves in the round of 16 against an ‘affordable’ rival: el Olympique de Lyon. In the first leg, the surprise jumped. Pellegrino’s men fell 1-0 thanks to a long-distance goal from Makoun and were unable to equalize the contest. The tie was getting complicated. Real Madrid had not passed the round of 16 of the European Cup for five seasons.

On the return leg, the spirit of the comebacks overflowed the Bernabéu. Cristiano scored as soon as the match started, but Higuaín failed several clear occasions and Madrid wasted in the first half the chance to get ahead in the tie. In the second part, a young Pjanic, with number 8 on his back and just over a season wearing the colors of Olympique de Lyon, he entered the area and shot Casillas with his left in the absence of fifteen minutes. Tie to one. Madrid was left out of ‘their’ end. And Pjanic made an appearance at the Bernabéu for the first time. The next visit of the Bosnian to the white fiefdom will be next season, although this time he will do it with the colors of FC Barcelona.

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