The Real Madrid UCL Dominance (2013-2022)
Real Madrid has the perfect 4-1-2-3 formation that has guided them to five Champions League titles in the last 9 years. As much as it feels like it, this is not just happenstance. Everything changed for the club after the 12-13 season of the UCL, the year that Bayern Munich won their fifth Champions League title by defeating their arch rivals BVB Dortmund. The years before that, it were the PL clubs and Real's ultimate league rival FC Barcelona who dominated the UCL more prominently. The Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich were there as well, intimidating the league by qualifying for three finals in four years. Real was led by the great Jose Mourinho that year, the same stupendous mind who had won the UCL with Porto. Real Madrid lost the semi finals to the Yellow Giants of Bundesliga, thrashed heavily by their rising star Lewandowski. However, the next season, Carlo Ancelotti stepped in as the coach of the Los Blancos and helped them go on to win the Copa Del Ray and the p...