Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night to reach the Champions League quarterfinals.
The European champions were 2-1 winners during the last last week of the first leg in Santiago Bernabeu, but Atletico quickly leveled short on the aggregate with a wound kick by Conor Gallagher, the only goal of feedback.
However, the holders triumphed during a dramatic criminal shooting, however, with Julian Alvarez and Marcos Llorente the wrong parties from 12 meters, the first in slightly bizarre circumstances with the intervention from VAR, because athletes were expelled from the competition.
Madrid will face Arsenal in the last eight after being in the 16th round of the 16th round of Gunners with a total victory 9-3.
How the game took place
Madrid He boasted a slender advantage of a goal that went in the affair on Wednesday and would hope to keep his pillow as long as possible. However, these aspirations were extinguished after only 27 seconds while the zealous metropolitan Atletico In the lead, Gallagher turns from close range next near Giuliano Simeone.
Diego Simeone cut the surprisingly composed figure on a touch line after the opener, but he was aware of the gift presented to his side. Gallagher’s effort offered Atletico the possibility of sinking into his half and absorbs the Madrid pressure, flexing his muscle counterbalance after possessing.
The game plan proved to be strong success during the first half, as the hosts conveniently conquered Madrid’s attacking quartet. Los Blancos managed only three goals and expected goals of 0.08 before the whistle at halftime, while Alvarez scored twice with Thibaut Courtois palms with the other end -end plants.
Madrid desperately desperately disturbed Atletic’s deep defense after restarting, but their rivals held firmly. Speculative effort on 35 yards launched a high and wide Aurelien Tchoumeni, in the last third he made their struggles.
Despite their troubles, Kylian Mbappe produced a moment of inspiration that seemed to offer Madrid their equalizer, French exceptional agility forcing Clement Lenglet in a clumsy offense. But his hard work ultimately proved in vain, while Vinicius was inexplicably flaming the punishment over the crossbar.
Angel Correa approached the amazing late kicks just a minute after entering a confrontation that Atletico would book his quarterfinals ticket, but in the Spanish capital it is required an additional effort.
Tired legs struggled to have fun over an additional half an hour, while Atletico continued to frustrate his visitors. Los Blancos looked most likely that he would sneak up the key aggregate winner, but eventually followed as a punishment punishment.
Var somehow took the center stage during the criminal showdown, preventing Alvarez’s sentence after the striker slid and the ball hit both his legs. Antonio Rudiger eventually produced a winning shot while taking advantage of Marcos Llorente’s failure to send the owners.
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All in all, it was mostly an angry night for the ruling European champions. They failed to unlock the stubborn background of Atletico as they ticked for seconds, and Carla Ancelotti was in some ways while fought on the big stage.
In the end, Madrid demanded that the criminal shootings be completed to be completed in order to break through as they were drawn into the quarterfinals despite their sub-para, but Los Blancos always finds a way in European competition regardless of the circumstances.
On Wednesday, she just strengthened the legend around the world’s greatest giants, who once again drove their happiness in a key knockout. Acelotti -This side is simply inevitable.
Atletico were already here. They managed the best best rivals in domestic competitions, but he never translated that success in the Champions League. Another way out in the hands of Los Blancos will once again Simeone will curse her happiness.
As they have learned twice in the Champions League final in the past, playing good against Madrid is not enough to knock them down in Europe. Atletico was a defensive stoic in his narrow victory during the 120 minutes of the second leg, and the winners on the night are due to pushing the brightest line in the world. But the penalties have betrayed them once more.
Happiness is just refusing to fall into the wing in the European top competition and have once again been able to erase any demon during the second cardiac evening.
It was an atypically insidious European excursion because of the usually devastating line forward. Rodrygo was withdrawn before the extended period, Mbappe was an almost anonymous at least one moment of genius, and Jude Bellingham failed to evoke any magic when returning to Champions League XI.
However, the most disappointing performances have come from 2024. The wing is an extremely awful place abolished what was an incredibly frustrating evening, even replaced before the criminal shooting.
Once they have failed to achieve 120 minutes, they will need to be far better in the open game if they want to keep their title.
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