Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid in the Criminal Shooting League of Champions – Again – to maintain the title defense and progress to the quarterfinals.
Defender Antonio Rudiger scored a decisive blow to A 4-2 shot victory Wednesday after missing two Atletico players.
Marca Llorente’s shot hit at least after the result of Julian Alvarez after slipping disabled because the ball hit his right leg twice.
Madrid also beat Atletico in the shooting to win the 2016 finals – part of a series of removal of his city rival in four years.
Madrid moves to the quarterfinals to face Arsenal, who also progressed on Wednesday with Aston Villa and Borussia Dortmund.
Real Madrid punishment low and high
The quarterfinals lineup was completed with the victory of Madrid in a tense derby, which ended up 2-2 after an additional time on the overall result.
Atletico led 1-0 after 90 minutes and an extra time on his metropolitan stadium to cancel Madrid 2-1 from the first leg last week.
Two key incidents defined the regulation time. Atletico Madrid scored a goal within 30 seconds, and Real Madrid missed the penalty in the 70th minute.
Atletico took the lead with his first attack when the English midfielder Conor Gallagher overthrew the ball from close range when Križ Rodriga de Paul bounced into the goalkeeper.
Madrid star Vinicius Junior was amazed at the penalty of Atletico goal when he could send a defender champion to the quarterfinals.
In additional time, it was replaced by its teen colleagues Brazil, Endrick.
Arsenal, Aston Villa and Dortmund are also progressing
Arsenal rested some regular 2-2 draws with PSV Eindhoven to start a 9-3 grade.
Aston Villa also had an evening without stress at home to ensure that England had two teams in the quarterfinals, one night after the Liverpool Premier League at Anfiels beaten Paris Saint-Germain.
Villa beat 3-0 against Club Brugge, who played with 10 men from the 17th, after a 3-1 victory in Belgium last week. Brugge defender Kyriani Sabbe was sent for the withdrawal of Marcus Rashford when he passed purely in the goal.
Replacement Marco Asensio, on loan at a PSG villa, scored twice in the second half to ensure that his temporary club will meet his home club next time.
Borussia Dortmund gathered with two goals of the second half to win 2-1 in Lille and advance 3-2 to the aggregate. The beaten finalist last season is now facing Barcelona.
The quarterfinals pairs are: Arsenal VS Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain VS Aston Villa, Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich against Inter Milan
The first leg games are 8 to 9 April, and return games are a week later.
Only one former European champion from England remained in the Champions League. Villa -The undefeated home record led to a run to the quarterfinals, wins against Bayern, Juventus, Kelta and now Brugge.
Liverpool’s exit to PSG was followed by Manchester City who threw Real Madrid out of the knockout play -off. Without the 2019 and 2023 Champions League winner, the English challenge halved in only two.
Aston Villa The only English winners still stand
Villa’s 1982 European Cup title may be less remembered in the 70-year history of competition. Arsenal was the only time in the finals to be a loss from Barcelona in 2006.
Vile Unai Emery’s leader is now returning to Paris, where he seemed to be his two seasons as a coach until 2018. They were unsatisfactory for both sides.
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Asensio lived to his status on Wednesday as the most prolific replacement in the history of the Champions League. Former Real Madrid player now has 12 goals in 51 games from the bench in the competition.
Like last season, Borussia Dortmund is better in the German League Champions League.
The ten-ranked Bundesliga team laged Lille from the fifth minute to the impact of striker Jonathan David, gathering a decisive 2-1 victory in the second half. Dortmund equalized from the Emre Can penalty kick, and Maximilian Beier sealed the victory nine minutes later by an increase.
Last June, Dortmund was a beaten finalist-made 2-0 from Real Madrid at Wembley Stadium in this Champions League just because Germany earned a bonus for fifth place in the Bundesliga.
Niko Kovac, the third coach of the Champions League club this season, is now running Dortmund to face former star striker Robert Lewandowski in Barcelona.
Expected outputs for Brugge and PSV – after Benfica and Feyenoord are eliminated on Tuesday – leave only five richest leagues in Europe that are now presented.
No team outside England, Spain, Germany, Italy or France has reached the Champions League final since Porto coached Jose Mourinho in 2004.
UEFA will share nearly 2.5 billion euros (2.7 billion USD) this season (USD 2.7 billion) among the 36 Champions League teams and 20 percent higher payments this season to expand our richness in European football. England and Spain are also fine for Bonus fifth place in the Champions League next season, and there they sent tens of millions there in a prize money.
Each quarterfinalist will receive 12.5 million euros ($ 13.6 million). The place in the semifinals pays an additional 15 million euros ($ 16.3 million).
