Actual Madrid vs. Arsenal: Marcelo warns of potential comeback

Actual Madrid legend Marcelo has mentioned the membership can’t be written off as they appear to overturn a 3-0 deficit towards Arsenal of their Champions League quarterfinal second leg on Wednesday.

A pair of beautiful free kicks helped Arsenal stun Madrid on the Emirates final week, leaving Carlo Ancelotti’s facet with a mountain to climb. Nevertheless, Marcelo, who received 5 Champions League titles with Madrid, mentioned no activity is just too large for the membership.

“You possibly can by no means write off Actual Madrid,” Marcelo informed ESPN in an interview in Mexico on Monday. “Though three objectives is a variety of objectives, however I’m all the time desirous about Actual Madrid and have a variety of religion that they’re going to come again. Actual Madrid is Actual Madrid and so they all the time come again.”

Marcelo is in Mexico this week enjoying within the Membership Legends Clásico with different former Madrid and Barcelona gamers.

“The return leg is on the Bernabéu, the followers will push arduous and the gamers are assured it could possibly occur. In fact, we do not know what is going to occur, we’ve religion and Actual Madrid will come again,” Marcelo mentioned.

Marcelo added that profitable is within the DNA of Actual Madrid gamers, as it’s one thing taught to them from the second they put on the shirt.

“I believe that from the second we joined Actual Madrid, we’re taught to by no means surrender, and that is all the time been in our blood,” he mentioned. “It has been like this for a few years, and aside from the DNA, it is arduous work, humility, every day dedication, and the assist of the followers as effectively. It is all a part of making issues work.”

Madrid, who will welcome Arsenal to the Bernabéu, can boast a monitor document of recovering from the place they discover themselves getting into Wednesday, though the membership has by no means come again from a 3-0 first-leg defeat.

Ancelotti’s facet delivered a sequence of logic-defying comebacks en path to the Champions League title in 2022, together with two stoppage-time objectives to disclaim Manchester Metropolis within the semifinals.