05/03/2003. Real Madrid have been stunned at home to Mallorca ahead of their Champions League semi-final with Juventus.
The Islanders won 5-1 at a shell-shocked Santiago Bernabeu in the shock result of the season so far.
Real began well, and on nine minutes they were ahead when Steve McManaman found Ronaldo in the box. The Brazilian turned and slotted a low effort into Leo Franco's bottom right corner.
A few minutes later Ronaldo rounded Leo Franco after being put through by Guti, but his shot was cleared off the line by Fernando Nino.
After Samuel Eto'o had given Real a slight scare at the other end, Ivan Helguera headed over for the Merengues.
On 33, Leo Franco made a fine low save from a Zidane free-kick, before Pandiani gave Real a sign of things to come when blasting over just before half-time.
Three minutes after the break, it was 1-1, when Pandiani fired home from close range after Real had got slack on the ball.
Leo Franco then beat away Zidane's long shot, and Ronaldo headed the resulting corner wide.
On 51 minutes, shock, horror. Eto'o was allowed to run at the Real defence, before slotting a nice ball to Riera who calmly curled past Iker Casillas.
Eto'o then broke down the right, and ran at Fernando Hierro before shooting into the side-netting.
Just before the hour Ronaldo fired a very presentable chance wide after a great pass from Zidane.
And he would rue that just four minutes later when Ariel Ibagaza passed to Eto'o on the right side of the penalty area. The Cameroon international skinned Roberto Carlos before blasting low past Casillas. Vicente Del Bosque's team didn't know what had hit them.
It got worse six minutes later. Novo connected with Poli's cross, and when Carlos attempted to clear, he only stabbed the ball into his own net.
Javier Portillo was brought on for Ronaldo, and the youngster had an effort that went wide, as Real looked to restore some sort of respectability to the scoreline.
Claude Makelele saw a long-range effort tipped over by the ever alert Leo Franco.
In injury time substitute Juan Carlos completed Real's misery when he found himself all alone down the left before firing clinically past Casillas.
So a night that saw Mallorca achieve the biggest result in the club's history, and one that the Merengues will want to forget very, very quickly.
SA Europe
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