You didn’t think it would happen this time, did you? That old white mischief, the magic of the Meringues , those ghostly hands losing their grip on the day? I find your lack of faith disturbing. For 72 minutes at Wembley Stadium this Champions League final churned and simmered. Perhaps to the untrained eye it might have looked like the team in yellow and black was dominating.
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Welcome to act one. Also known as The Bit Where They Make You Think You’re Going to Win. When the moment came there was a kind of stillness to it, a relax of air, and also a feeling of recognition, like a puzzle being solved.
OK then. This way, this time. Dani Carvajal is 5ft 7in tall.
As Toni Kroos took a corner from the left flank he was marked by Niclas Füllkrug who is 6ft 2in. And of course Carvajal still somehow leapt unchallenged, alone in all that Wembley air, with time to angle his neck and nudge the ball gently into the Dortmund net, a small man in a white shirt doing what he wants just when it matters most. A few minutes later Vinícius Júnior made it 2-0, as the score would remain to the end , a goal you might have described as the killer, if .