Overview
- Real Madrid, which lost Wednesday’s 4-3 second leg to Bayern Munich, exited the quarterfinals 6-4 on aggregate after a frantic tie that included an 86th-minute red card for Eduardo Camavinga.
- Kylian Mbappé scored to reach 15 Champions League goals this season, matching Karim Benzema’s mark for a French player in a single campaign reported by World Soccer Talk.
- After the defeat, Mbappé posted on Instagram that the team must look hard at itself and promised fans that Madrid “will start winning again and very soon.”
- The club is trending toward a trophyless season, with Barcelona nine points clear in La Liga with seven matches left, following earlier exits in the Copa del Rey and now Europe.
- Managerial chatter has intensified, with reports naming Jürgen Klopp as a preferred option under the condition that Madrid waits for him to indicate interest, while public criticism of squad dynamics has grown through a resurfaced 2024 PSG clip of Mbappé and Emmanuel Petit’s claim that his arrival bred selfishness.