Despite losing 2-3 to the reigning European champions, Meringues secured their place in the semi-finals in added time with a 1-3 first-leg win in London. Now, the Whites expect a rival between Manchester City and Atlético de Madrid.
Real Madrid came with a clear advantage in the rematch with Chelsea and contested it even more at home, at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Despite the initial dominance, the meringues could never disturb the English goal and the visit not only knew how to take advantage of this lack of definition, but also knew how to open the scoring at the first opportunity they had: Timo Werner allows Mason Mount and he, with a shot from the right, from the center of the surface, scores 0-1 and leaves in total 3-2 (15 ‘).
Then, the awakening of Carlo Ancelotti’s men was expected. However, they stayed asleep and went to rest without disturbing Édouard Mendy’s goal.
The return of the hosts was a nightmare, because at 51′ Antonio Rüdiger headbutted the entire home defense and nailed the ball away from the hands of Thibaut Courtois, to make it 0-2 and tie the series.
The same that could be lopsided on the hour mark, when Marcos Alonso nailed his shot in the opposite corner of Madrid’s goal, but VAR ruled out the conquest for a more than controversial handball before the aforementioned shot.
And if Karim Benzema was able to change history, his head crashing into the crossbar (66th), it’s the German Timo Werner who, in a big personal gesture – faked twice before finishing – made it 0-3 (75′) and sent the semi-final tickets to London.
However, you should never give up Real Madrid for dead and he endorsed that in the 80s, when Luka Modric lands a three-finger pass to Rodrygo and leaves him in front of the England goalkeeper to put the discount and the suspense of what would happen with the touch. So they moved on to popularization.
That’s when the hero of the white house appeared: Benzema. When he had already counted only the crossbar and did not seem to be in his night, the French shooter won by air and nailed the ball next to the left post, to place the 2-3 and 5- 4 who gave him the lead. in the semi-finals.
Chelsea tried and came close to scoring the fourth goal, but at that point luck was with the hosts. The rest is history. A great game for the European champion, which showed why he won the last Orejona, but not enough to secure the biggest winner in Champions League history, which saw Stamford Bridge win 1-3. Now the meringues expect a rival between Manchester City and Atlético de Madrid, who will face off tomorrow in the Spanish capital. The idea was 1-0 for the English.
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