Declan Rice topples Real Madrid with black swans and silver bullets | Barney Ronay

Arsenal midfielder had never scored a free-kick before nailing two in 12 minutes to sink European champions
So that?s how you beat Real Madrid then. Here it is, the silver bullet. Improbably brilliant, aesthetically lovely, statistically semi?impossible right-footed free?kicks. What?s the problem here exactly?
Before this fun, wild, unbound night at the Emirates Stadium Declan Rice had scored exactly zero free-kicks across his eight-year professional career. On Tuesday night he scored two in 12 minutes, against the champions of Europe, in Arsenal?s biggest European game in almost 30 years.
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