Last night the victory of Real Madrid against Shakthar Donetsk (2-1) it was historic. Not because of the game or the outcome, but because open the marker, Benzema scored the 1000th goal of the club in the Champions League. These have been the other players that marked so many ’rounds’ for the entity:
Di Stefano had to be on this list. The Argentine Hispanic genius was the great architect of the historic 5 European Cups that Real Madrid won between 1956 and 1960. In the latter, he scored the 100th goal in the semifinals against Barcelona (3-1).
Just 5 years later, the second hundred would come to Real Madrid’s account in their fetish competition. It was the other great striker of the time, Ferenc Puskas, who took the honor of converting him. He did it against Feyenoord (5-0) in the season in which they would win the Sixth European Cup
It took more than a decade for Real Madrid to score their 300th goal in the European Cup. During the 1978/79 academic year, Jensen scored as much in front of the humble Progres Niedercom of Luxembourg
We are now entering the 90s. The youth squad Losada scored a double in the Whites’ draw in Austria against Swarowski Tirol, in a match that ended in a draw (2-2). It was the 1990/91 season.
Another youth squad, in this case one of Guti’s charisma, was the one who scored the 500th goal. It was the second round match of the group stage against Sporting de Portugal (4-0) in the 2000/01 season. The Whites fell in the semifinals that year against Bayern, the competition’s second-highest scorer in history.
It was also in the group stage, but during the 2003/04 season. Real Madrid secured their lead with a victory against Marseille de Dorgba and company. The scoreboard would be opened by Beckham with a direct free kick and with that goal he raised the score of the Whites in the Champions League to 600.
We enter a more recent era. Mourinho’s first year at the helm of Real Madrid and the Portuguese already witnessed a historic moment. Higuain opened the scoring on matchday 4 of the group stage against Milan, in a match that Pedro León would tie in extremis (2-2). The Argentine’s was Real Madrid’s 700th goal in the tournament.
If we said that Di Stéfano could not be absent from this list, let’s imagine Cristiano Ronaldo. The best scorer ever in the competition (two days ago he scored a new double, with United) entered the history of Real Madrid also ‘on this side’. It was in the group stage against Copenhagen (4-0) in the 2013-14 season, the year of the Tenth.
The Portuguese was also the one who did the 900 goal, just 4 years ago. He scored it in an epic match against Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals (4-2) that had to be resolved in extra time. Zidane was the coach of the whites … and Ancelotti that of the Bavarians. That goal ended his hat-trick and closed the tie.
The Frenchman made history, once again, at Real Madrid. Last night he took advantage of a gift from Vinicius and pushed the ball into an empty goal to open the scoring against Shakhtar. He is the third highest scorer in the club’s history in the Champions League after Raúl and of course Cristiano Ronaldo.
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