Dream comes true. Juventus fly to Berlin against all odds, not so much on the eve as at the beginning of the season. When few, if not very few, would have really bet on the black and whites in the Champions League final, moreover after beating Real Madrid. Instead, this time more than ever, it was the Lady who deserved the adjective of "galactica", so dear in the Spanish capital. Heart, character and good feet, here are the ingredients that have made possible what, until recently, seemed only a utopia. The mission remains difficult, God forbid: in fact, there will be the Barcelona of Messi, Neymar, Suarez and we'll stop here, otherwise a page wouldn't be enough. But now there is no longer anything impossible and this, in itself, is already a victory.
“We know it will be very difficult to play against them, those three up front are stratospheric – admitted Massimiliano Allegri. – But the straight challenge is different from the round trip, anything can happen”. “We will not go there to be tourists – Captain Buffon thought. – In life you don't have many opportunities to play for a final, when you can do it you have to win”.
However, we will think about this only in a few hours. Because now is the time to enjoy Madrid's feat, deserved and legitimized in every aspect. On the one hand 11 overpaid champions, on the other a team and the capital s is not a typo. You don't come out of the hell of the Bernabeu unscathed without doing it all the way, especially if the match goes badly. Madrid needed a goal to change the inertia of qualifying and they found it after just 23': Chiellini's colossal ingenuity on James, a penalty coldly converted by Cristiano Ronaldo. It could have ended badly, very badly indeed.
Instead, all the greatness of Juventus has emerged, mental even before technical. Minute after minute, the Lady took possession of the match, taking possession of it completely in the second half. Allegri's move to raise the center of gravity, shorten the field and press the blancos ball carriers was decisive: a sort of do it or do it and, it must be said, it went. After a fireball from Marchisio at the edge of the post, Juve found an equalizer on the developments of a corner: an assist with a header from Pogba and a left foot from Morata, irony of the fate of Madrid ownership (57 ').
At that point Ancelotti's Real had to score two goals to go through and at least one to go into extra time. Logical, therefore, that the territorial dominance remained blank, as well as for the Lady to find more than inviting spaces on the counterattack. In the 63rd minute Bale came close to scoring a narrow goal, then, 7 minutes later, the occasional shot landed on Marchisio's right foot, incredibly hypnotized by Casillas.
But with the passing of the hands Madrid's ardor turned into desperation and it was Juve again who had the winning ball, this time wasted by Pogba. It would have been a triumph but it doesn't matter, it was anyway. And next June 6, the Lady will challenge Barça in Berlin. Who knows, maybe that day it is she who pays the bill with the famous 10 euros, perhaps under the eyes of Antonio Conte.
