"Panenka against City? I've been waiting for the right moment for a long time"

Real Madrid stormed into the Champions League final after beating Manchester City 6-5 on aggregate. Carlo Ancelotti's side had another magical night at the Santiago Bernabeu and completed another comeback with two goals from Rodrygo in just two minutes to force extra time.

The first leg of the tie was full of goals and excitement. The Sky Blues took a 2-0 lead after just ten minutes, but Benzema pulled one back. In the second half, Foden put the difference back to +2, but Vinicius' run made it 3-2. Later, Bernardo Silva made it four for his side.

When everything seemed to be over, a handball by Laporte was flagged as a penalty and Madrid's French striker took the responsibility. The '9' surprised everyone with a Panenka in a moment of high tension and with a Champions League final at stake. In fact, he explained that he had been thinking about doing something like this for some time.

"I had been practising the Panenka for a long time and I was just waiting for the right moment, in a match like that, where there is a lot of pressure. It's this kind of pressure that allows you to make something like that, at least for me," Karim told 'RMC Sport'. No doubt, there are few moments of high tension like that.

A technical detail that was well worth a round of applause from the Sky Blues fans. Then, in the second leg, he also made it 3-1 from eleven yards, but this time he chose a low shot to his right. Benzema's season in UCL has been sensational with 15 goals scored, ten of them between the last 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals.