Vinícius inspires Real Madrid’s five-star fightback to floor Borussia Dortmund
“In this cup and in this place anything can happen,” Vinícius Júnior said, barely audible in the midst of the madness and all the noise after yet another night in which it had. Real Madrid gonna Real Madrid. One hundred and 43 days after they met at Wembley the Champions League finalists met again and Borussia Dortmund scored twice in 35 minutes, the fastest team to come here and score two here in almost 20 years, so Real Madrid went and scored five even quicker. “We went in at half-time shitting ourselves but we listened, we said get the first, we’ll come back again,” the Brazilian revealed at the end, and so it was.
Madrid had gone in 2-0 down, goals from Donyell Malen and the Reading-born Jamie Bynoe-Gittens putting Dortmund into a lead they had deserved. A banner at the south end before the game announced that this was Madrid’s crown and Madrid’s cup but at that stage it you wondered if it might be Dortmund’s night. History though has warned otherwise so many times and here it was repeated. Goals from Antonio Rüdiger, Lucas Vázquez and a hat-trick from Vinícius doing it again, delirium taking hold of this place, a 5-2 victory met with chants of “this is how Madrid win!” Well, quite.
