The morning after the second semi-final was noisy before the sun even had the chance to stretch across Europe.
From Madrid to Marseille, from North London to Naples, the football world woke up with one voice: "How did it end 4–0?"
A game everyone was expecting to go down to the wire, possibly.
A game that had all the star power, but only one team's star power came through.
Phones buzzed on nightstands.
Twitter (or X, depending on who you asked) was a riot of laughter, disbelief, and meme warfare.
In Barcelona, cafés opened early, and laughter came free with the morning cortado.
"Real Madrid, trophyless. Kylian Mbappé, finished before he started," one fan tweeted, attaching a photo of Mbappé's face edited onto a crying baby wearing a Real Madrid bib.
Within minutes, it had over fifty thousand likes, and so the replies came flooding in.
