Real Madrid team bus has window SMASHED driving into Anfield for Champions League

Real Madrid‘s hostile reception from Liverpool fans led to a smashed window in the hours building up to the two sides Champions League quarter-final second leg. 

Liverpool fans lined the streets close to Anfield to give an intimidating welcome to the Spanish champions as flares were set off to see the Madrid bus drive through the red haze. 

But the damage was more than just obscuring the vision of the driver as the outer screen of the window was damaged with reports from Spanish media of missiles causing the breakage.   

Real Madrid’s bus window was damaged during the drive into Anfield to take on Liverpool

Real Madrid arrived on Merseyside with a 3-1 lead from the first leg but they will be wary of Liverpool’s record in famous turnarounds in Europe at Anfield. 

Much of Liverpool’s success in those games has been influenced by the noisy home support but this match remains without fans and behind closed doors. 

That did not stop some gathering in the streets close to Anfield before the game and reports, originally from Cadena COPE, stated that missiles were thrown from home fans at the Real Madrid bus, leading to the window damage. 

Liverpool fans gathered outside the ground to greet Real Madrid’s bus prior to the second leg

Public gatherings of more than six people are currently prohibited due to coronavirus restrictions but many supporters came out on Wednesday to catch a glimpse of the two teams. 

This would not be the first time Liverpool fans have targeted a visiting team’s bus for a European tie.

Back in 2018 at this same stage, Man City’s coach was struck by bottles and cans as it drove into Anfield.

So bad was the damage to the coach carrying Pep Guardiola and Co, City needed an entirely new bus to make the journey home with the original said to be unusable.   

Jurgen Klopp previously criticised the excessive aggression levelled against visiting teams by Reds supporters and is likely to have been left bemused by damage to Real Madrid’s bus window. 

Red flares were set off outside the ground by home fans to welcome both teams to the ground

‘It is so strange because you go with your own bus through the crowd and it feels fantastic, it is passion,’ the German said after the City bus was damaged.

‘Then you come into the stadium and the first thing I heard is they smashed the bus of Man City and it kills everything in that moment for us.

‘You cannot be happy about that, you don’t feel ‘it’ any more. Because of a few idiots it will maybe never happen again. It changed everything.’