Can Mourinho weave the magic?

Not even Jose Mourinho could deny the scale of the task, the amount on the line.

“It is the most important game for Madrid in the last 10 years,” the Portuguese insisted in a notably serious pre-match press conference. He did, however, attempt to downplay virtually every other element of tonight’s Champions League second-leg.

Because, with Real Madrid attempting to become only the second team in the modern Champions League to overturn a three-goal deficit as they trail Borussia Dortmund 4-1, the local media has understandably been filled with hyperactive pieces about the club’s most astounding European comebacks: the 5-1 win over Derby County in 1975-76 to make it 6-5; the 6-1 win over Anderlecht in the Uefa Cup nine years later that cancelled out a first-leg 4-0.