Sensational at the Bernabeu, as at the Cibali sixty years ago. The most surprising result of the Champions League evening undoubtedly comes from Madrid, where the little Sheriff Tiraspol manages to win 1-2 at Real home, thus taking the lead in group D with 6 points, 3 more than the blancos and 5 more than Inter and Shakhtar. Advantage of the guests with a header from Uzbek Yakhsiboev in the 25th minute. In the second half, on 20 ‘, Real Madrid equalized with Benzema’s penalty but the Sheriff did not give up and found success in the 90th minute with a Eurogol from Thill, after the Var had already canceled a second guest advantage.
The history of the rossoblu formation is incredible: formally it represents Moldova, in reality the Tiraspol team identifies itself in Transnistria, the self-proclaimed independent separatist state in the early nineties and since then effectively governed by an autonomous pro-Russian administration not recognized by the international community. Transnistria is a strip of land between Ukraine and Moldova, in the Bessarabia region, long disputed between Romania and the Soviet Union: its own currency is printed and all economic and social life revolves around the omnipresent Sheriff group, owner, as well as the football team, a supermarket chain, a fixed and mobile telephone company, a TV, three oil depots and eleven service stations, a megapark and two five-star hotels and a mess. A state within the state within the state.