Sid Lowe reports Dani Carvajal summed it up in a single
word but the sight of him – and of the
man behind him – said so much more.
At the end of Real Madrid’s 4-1 defeat
against Ajax, Carvajal stood in front of the
TV camera on the touchline at the
Santiago Bernabeu, holding back the
tears, a hollow look on his face, at a loss
to explain what had just happened.
“I have never had this feeling before,”
he admitted. “I don’t know how to explain
it, this feeling is so...bad. In a week we
lost it all; we lost it all at home.”
That “at home” came as the
confirmation of just how hard this was
to believe and it really was “it all”. The
enormity of what had happened wasReturn
of the king
After the worst week in the club’s history, Real
Madrid persuaded Zinedine Zidane to return
eyewitness
SPAINOut...Madrid concede
a fourth goal to AjaxBack...Zidane