People often talk about Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, but for Real Madrid fans, a new concept, a new milestone of bad luck is Wednesday, October 2.
The Royal team suffered a surprising defeat at LOSC Lille, and this could be shared by Atletico Madrid - who lost 0-4 at Benfica, and Bayern Munich - who lost 0-1 at Aston Villa.
Early morning October 3 (Vietnam time), Real Madrid visited France in the second match of the league stage of the 2024-2025 Champions League. Of course, when Lille is placed next to a name like Los Blancos, people understand how big the gap is.
But the Champions League still knows how to create shocks. The French team beat the 15-time European champions 1-0 and won 8 of their last 9 home matches in the European Cup.
Real Madrid got off to a good start in their title defence with a 3-1 win over Stuttgart and were expected to win their second successive game. But it appears coach Carlo Ancelotti has somewhat misjudged his opponents.
Although Kylian Mbappe recovered quickly, the Italian coach did not start him. He also did not use Rodrygo Goes - Real Madrid's lucky star in many Champions League matches, but put Endrick as a striker with Vinnicius Junior in a 4-4-2 formation.
In midfield, Eduardo Camavinga made his first appearance of the season after recovering from injury, partnering Aurelien Tchouameni. The defence was strong enough with Dani Carvajal, Antonio Rudiger, Eder Militao, Ferland Mendy protecting Andriy Lunin.
Maybe Ancelotti was subjective, or maybe his students had a very bad day.
In terms of stats, Real Madrid were still ahead, starting with Vinicius' chance being blocked by goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier in the 5th minute. But the home team was not too far behind, when Jonathan David even forced Lunin to save twice in a row.
Next, Benjamin Andre's bad pass again troubled Lunin, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out.
Los Blancos' luck ended there, as Edon Zhegrova's free kick hit Camavinga's hand in the box. David took responsibility from the penalty spot and opened the scoring in the 45+3 minute.
Even after the break, while the "White Vultures" wanted to create crazy pressure, on the contrary, the clear opportunity still belonged to the home team, when they almost doubled the advantage with Zhegrova's curling shot just a few centimeters from the post.
Less than an hour into the match, Ancelotti had to bring both Luka Modric and Mbappe onto the field. But until the 85th minute, the white team did not even have a shot on target in the second half.
In the final period, new opportunities came continuously, but whether Rudiger, Bellingham or Vinicius headed from close range, all were not difficult enough to beat goalkeeper Chevalier.
The 1-0 score remained until the end of the match, Real Madrid's unbeaten streak in the Champions League ended at 22 matches. In the next match, Real Madrid will play at home against Dortmund at 02:00 on October 23.
In the 2023-2024 season, Jude Bellingham scored 6 goals in the first 6 matches of the season. In the 2024-2025 season, he had no goals after 6 matches.
