‘Three goals exploded in the last eight minutes’ Real Madrid wins 4-3 over Roma in UCL

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = Real Madrid (Spain), the team that has won the UEFA Champions League (UCL) the most times in history (15 times), pulled off a last-minute comeback against AS Roma (Italy) and won two games in a row.

Real Madrid defeated Roma 4-3 in the away game of the second leg of the 2026-2027 UCL League Phase held at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy on the 15th (Korean time).

Real Madrid, who defeated Inter Milan (Italy) 2-1 in the first leg on the 9th of last month, cruised through the early stages of the league phase with two consecutive wins (6 points).

After a 1-1 draw with Fenerbahce (Türkiye) last month, Roma suffered a loss today and has 2 games without a win (1 draw, 1 loss) and only has 1 point.

Real Madrid, who gave up the first goal to Marton de Ron in the 20th minute of the first half, balanced the score 5 minutes later with Kylian Mbappe scoring a powerful mid-range shot from the right side of the penalty arc.

After being tied 1-1 in the first half, Roma gained momentum in the early part of the second half.

In the 6th minute of the second half, Doniel Mallon scored a goal to give the team the lead again in Roma's attack, which took advantage of Real Madrid's passing mistake.

Then, in the 12th minute of the second half, Marlon calmly finished Matthias Soule's sharp through pass inside the penalty area, giving Roma a 3-1 lead. This goal was initially declared offside, but was recognized as a goal after video review (VAR).

Afterwards, Real Madrid attempted a counterattack by subtracting Vinicius Junior and Denzil Dünfris and inserting Endriki and Arda Guller.

In the 23rd minute of the second half, Mbappe's dribble break followed by a shot that shook the goal net, but Real Madrid, who missed the opportunity due to offside, quickly turned the tide by scoring 3 goals in 8 minutes from the 37th to 45th minutes of the second half.

In the 37th minute of the second half, Carlos Espy scored to make it 2-3, and three minutes later, Endriki scored a header to tie the game from a corner kick.

In the 45th minute of the second half, Antonio Rudiger took the right corner kick kicked by Güler and scored the game-winning goal.

Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won 4-2 in an away game against Manchester City (England), earning its second consecutive win in the league phase (6 points).

With goals from Desiree Duet in the 13th minute of the first half, Ousmane Dembele in the 15th minute, and Vitinha in the 32nd minute, PSG overwhelmed Manchester City in the enemy's territory.

They gave up a chasing goal to Erling Holland in the 8th minute of the second half, but PSG Magnes Akliusz scored an early goal in the 18th minute of the second half.

Holland scored one more goal in the 30th minute of the second half, but lost his luster due to the team's loss.

With former coach Pep Guardiola visiting the stadium, Manchester City, who suffered a complete defeat, now has 1 win and 1 loss (3 points).

In addition, Aston Villa (England) defeated Fenerbahce 6-0 to take the lead with 2 consecutive wins, Liverpool (England) won 6-3 over LASK (Austria), and Stuttgart (Germany) won 3-0 over Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia), also recording 2 consecutive wins.

Porto (Portugal) midfielder Hwang In-beom, who caused a stir over national team retirements with fellow players born in 1996 such as Kim Min-jae (Munich) and Hwang Hee-chan (Schalke) during the recent international match, was substituted in the 26th minute of the second half of the away game against Real Betis (Spain) in the second leg of the league phase and played for about 20 minutes.

Porto lost 2-3 to Real Betis and remained in the bottom half of the table without gaining a point due to two consecutive losses.

Betis won two games in a row and entered the race to advance directly to the round of 16.

In this season's UCL league phase, in which 36 teams participated, each team played 8 games, with the 1st to 8th ranked teams advancing directly to the round of 16, and the 9th to 24th ranked teams aiming to advance to the round of 16 through the playoffs.