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ARSENAL took a giant leap towards their first ever major European trophy by battering Real Madrid 3-0 on a barely-believable evening in North London.
Declan Rice scored two world-class free-kicks to give the Gunners the upper hand, before Mikel Merino grabbed a third.
Los Blancos were left utterly shellshocked with the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham outclassed at the Emirates.
But write off Real at your peril… the Spanish giants have won the European Cup a record 15 times.
Carlo Ancelotti has won the Champions League five times as a boss, while lifting two European Cups as a player.
If anyone can inspire a comeback, you’d back the Italian legend.
And Real certainly wouldn’t be the first team to mount a jaw-dropping second-leg comeback.
SunSport takes a look at some of the best…
Liverpool 4 Barcelona 0
— May 7, 2019
Spurs’ win was arguably all the more remarkable given what had happened just 24 hours at Anfield. Who could forget “corner taken quickly…”
Liverpool had lost their semi-final first leg 3-0 in Barcelona after goals from former star Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi (two).
The Reds were without Mo Salah and Roberto Firmino for the clash, and started with a front three of Xherdan Shaqiri, Divock Origi and Sadio Mane.
The idea of scoring three times against Barca seemed impossible — even on a big European night in front of the Kop.
In one of the most iconic moments in Champions League history, Trent Alexander-Arnold caught Barcelona napping as he took a corner quickly, with Origi sweeping home to send the Kop wild and seal a 4-0 win.
Klopp’s side would go on to lift their sixth Champions League crown as Salah and Origi scored in a 2-0 win at the Wanda Metropolitano.
PSG 1 Man Utd 3
— March 6, 2019
“Ole’s at the wheel”, cried Rio Ferdinand as the interim boss staged a remarkable Euro comeback.
Having replaced Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first defeat was the 2-0 loss at Old Trafford in the first leg of Manchester United’s last 16 showdown.
In the 107 preceding occasions where a team had lost 2-0 or more in the first leg, none had ever come back to win.
But Romelu Lukaku set about changing history as he scored after just two minutes.
Roma 3 Barcelona 0
— April 10, 2018
“Roma have risen from their ruins” was the call from commentator Peter Drury after the Italian’s side unlikely comeback win.
Having been battered 4-1 at the Nou Camp, Roma were expected to fall away with a whimper.
But Edin Dzeko netted early on to inspire a flicker of hope, before Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolas — who both scored own goals in the first leg — got on the scoresheet again to send the crowd wild.
Barcelona 6 PSG 1
— March 8, 2017
“La Remontada” — The Comeback.
PSG stormed to a 4-0 win at home and even “MSN” — Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar — wouldn’t be able to overturn such a deficit.
Or so we thought…
PSG were stunned in the final 20 seconds of added time as Neymar floated a ball into the box and a stretching Sergi Roberto poked the ball home in one of the wildest finales to a football match in history.
Deportivo La Coruna 4 AC Milan 0 — April 7, 2004
Delving a little further into the archives for this one, fallen giants Deportivo La Coruna shocked peak Milan in the 2004 quarter-finals.
Milan won the first leg convincingly, as Kaka (two), Andriy Shevchenko and Andrea Pirlo all scored in an eight-minute span, after the Spaniards had taken a shock lead.
The LaLiga side — now in the third tier — needed something special in the return leg and that’s exactly what they got. —Sun.
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