Departing Real Madrid football icon, Luka Modric, has picked the club’s 3-1 victory against PSG in the second leg of the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 as his “game to remember.”;;
The Croatian has concluded plans to leave Los Blancos at the end of the season.
Modric was in action for Real Madrid for their game againstReal Sociedad onSaturdayand that was his last league game for the club.
Real Madrid won the game 2-0 as a departing gift for the midfielder who will leave Santiago Bernabeu this summer after the Club World Cup.
The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder spoke to the press after the game against Real Sociedad.
He was asked which game he would remember from his time at Real Madrid, he said “One game to remember? Difficult but I’d say [the game] vs PSG. That was incredible. I said that we would have won the Champions League if we had won that tie.”;;
Real Madrid was beaten 1-0 in the first leg at the Parc des Princes, with Kylian Mbappe’s strike securing the victory for the French side.
The Frenchman scored again at Santiago Bernabeu in the second leg in the 39th minute to give PSG a 2-0 aggregate lead.
The then Los Blancos striker, Karim Benzema scored a second half hat-trick inside 17 minutes to turn the game on its head.
Real Madrid beat the French side 3-2 on aggregate and went on to win the tournament.
