15 amazing stats from Real Madrid’s Champions League semi-final win

Real Madrid have booked their place in the Champions League final after coming from behind to beat Manchester City 3-1 at the Bernabeu. 

Pep Guardiola’s side looked to have secured a spot in consecutive European Cup finals when Riyad Mahrez made it 5-3 on aggregate in the 73rd minute, but Madrid struck back in remarkable fashion.

A Rodrygo brace from the bench in the dying embers sent the semi-final clash to extra-time with the scores level on aggregate. Karim Benzema’s penalty in the first half of the additional period completed the comeback.

Carlo Ancelotti’s men will now face Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in the showpiece final in Paris at the end of May. Los Blancos will hope they can repeat their result from 2018 when they defeated the Reds to win the coveted trophy in Kiev.

Here are 14 stats from what was one of the greatest turnarounds we’ve ever seen in Europe’s elite competition.

– Rodrygo is the first player to score twice in the 90th minute of a Champions League knockout match.

– Benzema has scored 10 goals in the Champions League knockout stages this season, the joint-most by a player in a single campaign along with Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016-17, who also achieved this tally for Madrid.

– The 34-year-old has become only the fourth player to have scored in both legs of the quarter-final and semi-final in a single Champions League campaign after Fernando Morientes, Neymar and Edin Dzeko.

– Benzema has scored seven Champions League goals against English teams this season; the most by a player in a single campaign in the competition’s history.

– The France international has scored 15 goals in the Champions League this season, the joint-third most in any single-season Champions League campaign.

– He’s now scored 86