Real Madrid managed to win its fifteenth Champions League beating Borussia Dortmund 2-o and some of the players from the merengue team accumulated many minutes during the tournament, but there were also some that didn’t add up to any minute in the most important tournament at club level with the white shirt.
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Who was the Real Madrid player who did not play any minutes in the Champions League?
Arda Güler arrived at Real Madrid this season and has added minutes in the League and the Copa del Rey, but the young man did not participate in the 2024 Champions League.
Arda has disputed 12 matches with Real Madrid in his first season, most of these games have been played in the final stretch of the season, at a time when Carlo Ancelotti’s team had already secured the Spanish League, this to rotate the squad.
The Turkish player has scored several goals this season, he scored a goal against Celta Vigoto Real Sociedad, Granada, Alavés and Villarreal.
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What other players have not played a single minute and have been champions?
The case of Arda Güler is not the only one, over the years there have been several occasions in which some players on the squad do not add any minutes in the competition but come out victorious with the title, this because they are part of the squad.
One case is that of goalkeeper Palop, who was part of the Spain squad that won the 2008 Euro Cup. Luis Aragonés did not give the Spanish goalkeeper any minutes in that tournament.
The same case occurred in 2012, Spain became champion of the Euro Cup, but at that time, Vicente del Bosque did not give minutes to Reina, Albiol, Juanfran, Fernando Llorente and Víctor Valdes, However, all of them have a medal and were able to lift the title of champion.
Isco and goalkeeper Lunin did not participate in European competitions in the 2021-2022 season and Real Madrid beat Liverpool that year at the Stade de France in Paris.
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