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MY BIGGEST GAME

Real Madrid 3 Schalke 4

2014-15 Champions League last16, Bernabeu

Schalke headed to Madrid in March 2015 trailing 2-0 after the first leg, 12 months after a 9-2 aggregate defeat to Real at the same stage the previous season. Yet on a remarkable night, they gave the Spanish giants a huge scare in an end-to-end thriller…

“As a professional footballer, you want to win every time you set foot on the field but

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