UEFA Champions League has seen some disasters for GOAT teams and had some fairytales for away teams. It was always at some limits, but this time limits has been abandoned. A very small country in Europe, Moldova, and its breakaway state Tiraspol which has even limitation about ATM cards and money exchange had the dream.
Sheriff Tiraspol visited Real Madrid in Spain. All the odds, experts, fans and anybody around football, even Sheriff Tiraspol fans were waiting a huge win for Real Madrid. Some fans were OK for 3-0 or 4-0 defeats. But something totally unexpected happened on the pitch of Santiago Bernabeu. The 12.5 million euro valued Sheriff Tiraspol had the first goal against Real Madrid. This was a shocking goal but there were plenty of time to cover it. After that Karim Benzema scored for Spanish team to equal the score. But after this Real could not score any goal and they conceded one at the end of second half and lost the match 1-2.
A fairytale story for Sheriff Tiraspol has started 2 week ago when they have beaten Shakhtar Donetsk at home. Now they made it double or triple shocking and sat at the top of the Champions League group at the end of matchday 2.