📊 Madrid, up against their history. The challenge of an away comeback | OneFootball

Real Madrid is facing one of its biggest historical nightmares: overturning a European knockout tie after losing the first leg at the Bernabéu.

Although epic comebacks are part of Madrid’s DNA, the statistics show that losing at home is usually a difficult blow for Los Blancos to recover from.

Recent history is not encouraging. After yesterday’s 1-2 defeat against Bayern Munich, Álvaro Arbeloa’s team must look to the past to understand the magnitude of the challenge.

Of the eight times Madrid have started a tie by losing at home, they have managed to overturn the aggregate score and advance to the next round only once.

Only one precedent... in 1970

That distant positive precedent came in the 1970 UEFA Cup against Wacker Innsbruck, when after an initial 0-1 defeat, Los Blancos secured qualification by winning in Austria.

However, since then, the wall has been insurmountable. Teams such as Arsenal (2006), Liverpool (2009) and Manchester City (2020) came away victorious from the Whites’ fortress and finished off the tie in their own stadiums.

Even in the fiercest rivalries, such as the 0-2 against Barça in 2011 or the painful 0-1 loss to Bayern in 2001, Madrid could not find a way back. 

Now, with this unfavorable result against the Bavarians, the King of Europe is obliged to break a negative streak that has lasted more than half a century. 

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