Another miracle of Real Madrid in Champions

Real Madrid is in the semifinals of the Champions League. That yes, suffered a lot to eliminate Chelsea that was very, very close to turning the 1-3 first leg. It went 0-3, but that thing that Real Madrid has to be reborn appeared and with goals from Rodrygo and Benzema, they qualified for the semi-finals. Chelsea was better than Real Madrid in a game in which there was no lack of controversy due to a disallowed goal against Chelsea with 0-2 on the scoreboard.

Ancelotti repeated the plan that led to victory in London, with Nacho for the sanctioned Military. Tuchel, For his part, he changed it because he could not do anything else to overcome the 1-3 of the first leg. The German brought out a more physical eleven, with more offensive spirit and the truth is that he was right. The start of the duel was for Real Madrid, who had the ball and were comfortable despite the English pressure. The white tranquility changed to the quarter of an hour with the 0-1 of Mount taking advantage of a pass or something similar from Werner and that Praise and Nacho they had gone for grapes. The forward did not fail against Courtois and put the 0-1 on the scoreboard.



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The images of the classification of Real Madrid against Chelsea

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That goal completely changed Real Madrid who, like the entire Bernabéu, settled in fear. those of Ancelotti they chased the ball because they were unable to take it away from a Chelsea team that settled in Real Madrid’s field permanently. The white team, with a lot of nerves and mistakes, was unable to turn the situation around and not even in the few cons they could put together, did they reach the goal area Mendy. Real Madrid had lost all the good things they did in the first quarter of an hour against a Chelsea team that looked for the second goal that took the match to extra time. Despite their attempts, they did not succeed and the break was reached at 0-1. A relief for the white players and fans who were suffering tremendously.

A suffering of Real Madrid that passed to fear in the 51st minute with the 0-2 of Rudiger when heading a corner kick protested by the Real Madrid players. The tie was tied and what seemed impossible, Chelsea’s comeback, was a reality, at least to take the match to extra time. Real Madrid decided that it was time to wake up and went on to do everything they hadn’t done in the entire match, which was to go up. Something that Chelsea also liked because they also changed their approach and looked for the counterattack to increase their advantage.

VAR cancels Marco Alonso’s goal

Chelsea achieved their goal with 0-3 in Mark Alonso in minute 62 in a play that was born from a blunder of Mendy. A goal that was annulled at the request of the WHERE who told the referee that the ball hit the hand of Mark Alonso before finishing off and that arbitration decision was the first great joy of the night for the Bernabéu that celebrated that action as a Real Madrid goal. A white goal that was about to arrive in the 66th minute, but the crossbar prevented the goal from the Benzema in the best chance for Real Madrid in the entire game.

Despite White’s attempts, the team was unable to take control of the match in which Chelsea was still one point above Real Madrid. Ancelotti decided to remove Kroos to put to camavinga, something that did not sit well with the German who was saying everything, and not exactly pretty, because of that change. Coincidence or not, Chelsea scored 0-3 in the 75th minute through Werner in a great personal action in which the merengue team’s defenses helped. The Whites’ tragedy at the Bernabéu was a reality in which only English fans were heard

Rodrygo brand

Ancelotti then decided to remove Mendy, to which they whistled, and casemiro and put to Marcelo and Rodrygo. And it went well for him because in the 80th minute, Rodrygo scored 1-3 after a cross from Modric. A goal that took the game back to extra time. Of course, before that goal, Courteous He dressed as a hero again, avoiding Chelsea’s fourth goal. One team, the Englishman who was still superior to the white who entrusted everything to a personal action of Benzema, Vinicius or Rodrygo not to go to extra time. This is how the last minutes of the meeting at the Bernabéu were lived in which Carvajal He ended up as a right central defender due to the injury of Nacho.

Extension and goal by Rodrygo

The final minutes were anything but calm at the Bernabéu because Chelsea’s fourth goal was closer than Real Madrid’s second. In the end, neither one of them made it and extra time was reached, a complete success for those of Ancelotti seeing how the 90 minutes had gone.

The extra time started with Chelsea in command, but the duo appeared Vinicius-Benzema to put the 2-3 on the scoreboard. camavinga he stole the ball, he gave it to Vinicius who put the ball to Benzema who scored in the 96th minute of the match. Chelsea left Real Madrid alive and paid for it with that goal that forced the English to score two goals to eliminate Ancelotti’s men who returned to use the epic, that something that this team has to resurrect when everyone has presumed dead and buried, funeral included.

Chelsea, how could it be otherwise, went for a comeback, but reached the extra time break with the score at 2-3. On reboot, Tuchel gave entrance to Saul and Jorginho to refresh the midfield in the search for the comeback. Real Madrid, meanwhile, dedicated themselves to trying to play little or nothing of what was left, but had to reappear Courteous to save their own. And it is that the suffering did not disappear among the white ranks because the team did not exactly give any confidence to be calm. Each corner kick, each ball hanging into the Courtois area was synonymous with an opportunity in favor of the English team.

The final minutes at the Bernabéu were heart-stopping, with Real Madrid sending the ball as far away from their area as possible and the public waiting for the final whistle like someone waiting for the Primitiva to touch them. The joy overflowed in the stands and among the Real Madrid players who are in the semifinals, but at the cost of suffering tremendously.

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Another miracle of Real Madrid in Champions

CHELSEA

real Madrid
Courtois; Carvajal, Alaba, Nacho (Lucas Vázquez, d.88), Mendy (Marcelo, d.78); Casemiro (Rodrygo, m.78), Kroos (Camavinga, m.73), Modric, Fede Valverde; Vinícius (Ceballos, d.115) and Benzema.

Chelsea
Mendy; James, Thiago Silva, Rüdiger, Marcos Alonso; Kanté (Ziyech, m.100), Kovacic (Jorginho, m.106), Mount; Loftus-Cheek (Saúl, m.106), Werner y Havertz.

Goals: 0-1, m.15: Mount. 0-2, m.51: Rüdiger. 0-3, m.75: Timo Werner. 1-3, m.80: Rodrygo. 2-3, m.96: Benzema.

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL). He booked Benzema (37), Valverde (68), Camavinga (92) and Carvajal (118), for Real Madrid; and James (10), Ziyech (102), Havertz (109), Azpilicueta (114) and coach Tuchel (114), for Chelsea.

Incidents:
second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, played at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in front of some 61,000 spectators.

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