(Reuters) - Spanish media heaped praise on Real Madrid after the LaLiga winners pulled off a remarkable comeback win against Manchester City on Wednesday to advance to the Champions League final.
Leading 1-0 with minutes to go, City seemed to be heading for Paris before a late Rodrygo double and an extra-time penalty from Karim Benzema gave the hosts an unlikely 3-1 win on the night and secured a 6-5 victory on aggregate.
"Real Madrid are out of this world," Madrid-based AS said in their headline, accompanied by a picture of the squad celebrating in front of a section of the home crowd. Sport newspaper simply went with"Incredible" after Real once again turned around a first-leg deficit following their last-16 win against Paris St. Germain earlier in the competition."If PSG was already inexplicable, if Chelsea was already incredible, last night in Chamartin was, simply, the best night of a stadium that has seen this team in all colours and that is a lot to say," read their lead story.
The Barcelona-based Mundo Deportivo described it as"Groundhog Day" while Catalan radio station RAC1 said"this is not football, it's a paranormal phenomenon". Real will take on Liverpool in a rematch of the 2018 Champions League final at the Stade de France on May 28.
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