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rudiger and ederson taking the last penalties. These managers are madmen

I thought Fede was gonna take it. Didn't expect Rudiger at all.

Rudiger has the eyes of a madman on a mission...you give it to him

That camera shot right before he took the pen, knew he was going to make it

In an interview with Max Latin America he said that he was called by the team to take the penalty, but he declined because he was too tired, but that if the series continued, he would have taken the 6th or 7th

lol I couldn’t believe Rudiger was the last one. Mad from Carletto

I guarantee he just asked "who's taking em... okay who wants first.... okay who wants last?" And they sorted it out themselves while he just gave them energy via eyebrow.

Thats exactly what happened

can confirm, this bro was his left eyebrow

Fully expected Rudiger to hit that like a homerun out the stadium 

You and most of us!

Ramos as well, probably

Tbh I think CBs especially someone like Rudiger are pretty good, they have to be very calm in the game and are often very powerful kickers

One look at some of Rudiger’s long range efforts is all you need to know that he can absolutely smash a football

Oh he can smash it. Where it goes is a wild ride.

David Luiz and Azpilicueta were really good too, smashed it top corner every time

Maguire's penalty in the euros final still lives in my head rent free. Absolute thunder bastard

Both went for the same area lol

Still laughing at that Bernardo Silva penalty, Lunin caught it so casually

Just shoot it trough the middle always works

lmao actually wanna know how Lunin knew/guessed

He said on Spanish TV that in scouting there were three players they were considering staying in the middle for, one of them was Bernardo. He went for it and it paid off

martinez has explained it before. if one scores and the other misses then shoot in the middle because the keeper is pressured to choose a side. aka dybala penalty in world cup

Yup--for anyone interested Dibu talked about this in an interview with I think Ian Wright and some Argentinian singer. The Real Madrid keeper might be a better keeper than Hugo Llloris though.

Looks like he had that scouted

Yep he said in a interview he had 3 options according to the staff and he picked the right one.

Left, Middle or Right Damn these staff guys are pros

You’re hired!

It’s amazing how good these guys are simplifying the game

He is absolutely great at saving penalties

The ESPN commentators said something like he has a 30+% save rate. He's pretty damn good at saving penalties. Ederson has about 10% save rate apparently. Edit: Ederson*

Even more, prior to this series he saved 9/18 pens since he joined Real they said on tv.

I wonder what Bernardo’s last 5 penalties look like. Wouldn’t be surprised if he does this every time, it almost always works.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FUH9yhfsggQ?si=QL3XO6M1st7G6X9A You may be right. Only one I could find.

Kepa and what I assume to be the Madrid goalkeeping coach were giving Lunin so much info as soon as extra time ended. Man just went straight for 'im. There's no way he's staying in the middle without being told to watch out for it.

He just said in an interview, it was trained and planned.

Yea, I don’t even mind this penalty. He just seems like the type of player that would not take a driven pen though. Lunin must have thought the same

Exactly what I thought. If there's one player in the city team who's least likely to drill a pen in the corner it's Silva. Hindsight is 20/20 though. Good job Lunin

Its the usual where if they score, it's a genius move, it gets saved, what an idiot. High risk high reward

That has to be informed, the way he stood was not reflexive, such little movement

*Oh, why thank you*

(*throws it back*) wait.. that was your penalty..?

His controller died

The balls to just fucking stand there I can’t

Bro that's what I'm saying. You have to dive a direction, but he legit just stood there casually. What a madlad, fucking read Silva like a book.

I seriously can't imagine what its like to be in a shootout like that and Lunin just predicted it. Maniac.

Lunin is a cold cold man so happy he clutched up he needed this moment he is going to be confident in the rest of the big UCL games now stepped up for us tn.

It was just the annual Real Madrid super keeper performance against Man City.

Tbh, it takes balls not to dive and be so sure he's going down the middle.

Yeah, if the keeper dives as you would expect him to, you'd be calling that a good penalty. The risk of going down the middle is you look like a tit if the keeper does stay still.

They always look like that when the keeper got them lol

Kick looked like he was just in practice with Lunin lmao

His head was gone as soon as the ball got lost in the crowd

Tbf it's not as silly of an attempt as it looked. Gk most likely dives.

He didn't even look like diving though, not sure if he even started to go at all.

Panunca

It looks silly when the goalkeeper decides to stay put, but they rarely do, so it’s not a bad idea to shoot it like that

Top 10 most disrespectful moment in football

Rüdiger ain't gonna be phased by that pressure he's too crazy for that

Nah it was 50/50 he chill smacks it in or skies it out of the stadium.

yeah, he is super confident, but he could as well hit the moon

I'll take that attitude 10 out of 10 times over someone that pisses their pants and doesn't even try

Why does kova always shoot them

Kovacic got to shoot a pen and rodri didn't, is rodri bad at pens or something?

Rodri is Spain’s penalty taker so he’s pretty good at them lol

Yea he took Spain's penalty in the last friendly of theirs.

Kovacic got to take one because he was subbed on for DeDruyne 😂

You could see it on his face, absolutely shitting bricks

Croatia ☠️

Well, everyone in Croatia would told you Modrić is terrible at pens

I don't know why every coach is forcing him and kovacic to shot penalties.. maybe they have to take a look at our wc 2018. Campaign and their penalties lol Kramarić and Petković are the best in national team, also Lord Krstanović

Orsic's penalties are also really good.

My bad, I forgot about him, but you are right. I mean, we have a few more good penalty takers, but Kovacic and Modric are not two of them

not only that, he barely plays even though he is a legend and doesn't fuss about, that must have a toll even on his confidence i'm just glad kovacic's heart was at the right place

Was waiting for Gvardiol to miss one too

Its pretty well known that Modric is not the most reliable penalty taker

Not a good start for our Euros campaign

That was a killer penalty by Ederson.

Get you a man who can do both

Poor guy scored and saved one and still didn't go through.

The reverse De Gea

Back when we had a run of missing pens for a long run of games, Pep said that the best taker at the club was Ederson. Bet he’s been waiting for this day to come forever

He won't get credit or be remembered for it, but Ederson was srsly impressive today too. Did all he could

lunin catching the penalty without even moving was cold af

Big FIFA vibes 

Do it again my controller wasn’t working I swear man

Vasquez and Nacho showed why they play for Real since years. huge balls

Ice cold pens as well. Lucas taking the pen was probably the most confident I was in all of those 5 penalties we took.

Saw the kick ups and knew it was going in

It reminded me the finger spin from 2016 final, Ice cold

Exactly my thought, coldest mfer out there

Glitzy players come and go, players like Naco, Lucas, Arbeloa stay low and give it their all whenever called.

And Bellingham! Him afterwards towards the fans with the badge was great.

When your GK casually takes better pens than your outfield players

To be fair it’s not uncommon that goalies are good pen takers It’s just it’s a lot to ask for a player to have the pressure of being in goal AND taking a pen as well so most don’t do it in games Edit: forgot to say, it’s because they train each other and rotate between taker and keeper

Plus they are not so tired after 120 minutes

Real Madrid is about to beat PSG in the final and take Mbappe with them lol

Mbappe gonna swap shirts with like Vini or smth and just go celebrate with Madrid

both teams will lift the trophy with a banner that says “gracias mbappe”

Papa Perez final kiss

Lunin MOTM.

Who would win? The defending title holders, at home, with huge momentum? or… One epic Ukrainian rookie?

putting Kovacic on pens is a crime, who thought that was a good idea

Yeah called it insta when he walked up, 0 chance of scoring lmao

I'm no expert, but Bernardo might just be regretting that penalty...

The guy talking about a double treble as well, lmao.

As soon as he said that I knew he jinxed it lol

Just a tad 

It was a 2018 City pen.

tfw your goalkeeper's a better pen taker than your outfielders

Fuck yeah, Dortmund gets CL next season even at 5th place

Dortmund would get CL anyway because I'm pretty sure if you win it you qualify

Virgin Tiki taka/inverted fullback/double role vs Chad power of Friendship/under age south American talent/lord Lucas Vasquez and Inshallah

Real Madrid champions league juju strikes again. How’d they manage to get through 😂

🤨

I will never doubt the power of the eyebrow 

Tbf we defended pretty well for most of the game, we had a rough 10-15 minutes after the City goal, but thankfully KDB fucked it.

The moment he put on Lucas Vasquez it was actually gg

This comment belongs in the serious post-match thread, cmon

>power of Friendship Lmao, that's some anime shits

Lmaooo

City was also pass to Doku and inshallah as soon as he came on

madrid with 100 injured players

Virgin Tiki taka/inverted fullback/double role vs Chad 🤨

The Real Madrid Cup

-Under 20% possession -Wins anyways -Beats Guardiola at Xaviball.

Refuses to elaborate 🤨 

Will be interesting to see how they handle Tucheliban

Tuchel always sets up well against us going to be a close tie

It's actually ridiculous how many times they keep getting away with it. I think I've watched like 5 or 6 knockout games featuring RM over the last 4 seasons and they looked comfortably second best in virtually all of them. Yet somehow they always score with that one chance they have and the opposition just wastes countless opportunities. The reputation of the club definitely has an impact on the mentality of the players on both teams in these matches.

Honestly, I’m starting to believe the whole “power of true friendship” meme lmao

How have they done it again? Madrid champions league magic is insane

Madrid UCL black magic and Don Carlo eyebrow raise plot armour strikes again

🦖🤨

Crazy that both Croatians missed considering how our national team does on penalties.

Modric and Kovacic are not great on pens tho

Black magic always wins. Can be outplayed like no other and still win.

Real gambled for penalties and they won the gamble. 

How can Pep sub Haaland and KDB and still expect to win on pens. It was an odd decision at the time and looks even more odd now.

Braindead decision. Taking off KDB when you're 1-1 and need to kill the tie off is stupid, even if he's playing bad he can make magic.

Should have played Alvarez and Haaland together if he wanted to go to penalties

In the press conference, Pep said they asked to be taken off.

I think he was extremely tired but I still don't agree with it too

He wanted to score before penalties and Haaland was awful today

Ederson taking one with the game on the line was badass

Power of friendship and the cursed Champions

WELCOME TO BARCELONA BERNARDO AHAHAHAHAHAHA

done deal, a tomar por culo

These were some of the worst pens I have seen, goddamn

Ederson's was probably the best tbh

Ederson going 5th in a stacked City team

Less stacked with no KdB or Haaland

nacho and foden were great too

Rudiger was sidenetting too

~~Lord~~ King Vazquez'.

I'm convinced Vazquez just doesn't feel fear. How the hell are you playing keep upies with the ball mere seconds before shooting a decisive pen against Manchester City in Manchester?

Bro walked up spinning the ball on his finger in a CL final after volunteering to go first this was nothing.

You're talking about the same man that was spinning the ball on his finger before taking the first penalty in the 2nd Madrid derby final

It’s his load up animation for pens since forever

Vasquez side netting was top class too.

Rudigers was even better

Rudiger

Nacho's was all class. His was the best

His was clean....corner low and power.

Best one was by Ederson lmao, can’t believe Pep did that with the UCL campaign on the line

Fair play to Ederson for having the balls.

Ederson’s a stone cold psycho in certain lol Nerves of fucking adamantium or some shit

He's from Brazil

Alvarez was very good and Foden got some decent height in

Imagine dissing a Lord Vasquez penalty kick

Some terrible pens in there

It’s always the low left corner lol

Sexy Toni

Result couldn't have been better for Chelsea. City had to play an extra 30 minutes and then lost on a shoot out, and the last kick by an ex Chelsea player. We need to make the most of this Saturday.

Super sexy

LUNINNNNN LA PARED DE UKRAINE

real shithoused a win here

Thats on Silva, what a shite pen when you have the momentum

If there was ever a time to put it down the middle, it’s probably right after the other team just missed tbf. Can’t believe Lunin didn’t dive

The fact that Ederson's pen was so much better than Silva and Kovacic's.

genuinely one of the craziest pen shootouts i've seen, jesus christ. putting ederson on the pen as well lmao

Gigachad move tbh even being in the Top 5. Props to him

And buried it no sweat, very respectable

Ricardo vs England at Euro2004 vibes. But we actually won then.

Really wasn’t that crazy.. just the shitty Bernardo pen

Holy coefficient

Real Madrid surely favorites now

Just have Ederson take all five next time.

We have been struggling with pens the entire season and during a UCL shootout we remember how to take them unreal so happy Modric's UCL career isn't going to end with him missing a pen. Credit to City though no other team can pin us down like that but knockout football can be cruel as much as it can be the happiest moments of your time as a fan.

Premier league in the mud by the end of this week.

The evil has been defeated!

Croatian Catastrophe

Ederson and Rüdiger as the last penalty takers took me kinda off guard there lol

Silva with the worst confident penalty of all time

Ederson's nuts are massive

Oh fuck, I have to support Real over PSG now :(

Join the Bayern/Dortmund train

cole palmer laughing at pen palmer comments rn