On a night when Karim Benzema got the winner, Thibaut Courtois kept them in it, and substitutes Rodrygo Goes and Eduardo Camavinga made the difference late on, it says everything about Luka Modric’s status at Real Madrid that he was their man of the match and that he was the player whose name was being sung by supporters after the final whistle.
‘Give him a statue already!’ read one headline in Marca. If Madrid win the tournament he will have five Champions League winner’s medals. Even if they don’t, the man who is pretty much on a ‘stay as long as you want’ rolling one-year contract these days, has already cemented himself in the club’s history as their greatest ever midfielder.