The last act was the sweetest: the bumps, on the pitch, for Eric Abidal, the Barcelona defender who underwent an operation to remove a tumour on his liver in March and came on three minutes into added time of this 1-1 draw. It was a rare familial moment in a tie that delivered one last controversy: Real's vehement claim last night that Gonzalo HiguaÃn's second-half goal was wrongly disallowed.
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