Goals from Mount, Rudiger and Werner had eliminated a Real Madrid unable to face a huge Chelsea. But a goal from Rodrygo forced extra time and another from Benzema qualified Madrid in a heroic match.
where he doesn’t go real Madrid with his football he does it with the magic of Santiago Bernabeu, with the epic of his shirt, with the history of his shield. Before him Chelsea He was eliminated, but he refused to give up and the stands rescued the team to miraculously put it in the semifinals.
He had no other Chelsea what to risk in Bernabeu and output Tuchel he planted his people up high pressing very high. The intensity was suffocating with Loftus-Cheek, Kovacic Y Kanté drowning to Modric Y Kroos. At first the real Madrid worked the exit from the outside, with the power of Valverde and the imbalance of viniciuswho challenged a Reece James who took out the card early, at 9 minutes.
Mason Mount gives Chelsea hope.
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Gol de Tuchel
The approach of the German coach, with two explicit forwards as Werner Y Havertz, forced the white central defenders to pair up with them, ignoring the arrival of a third party. And so came the goal Mount, appearing down the center of the hall just to score. A goal made on the board of Tuchel. In the middle, the London trivote generated superiority associating himself with a Mount who worked on the back of the white midfielder. He needed Madrid to threaten arrivals, some occasion to frighten a Chelsea grown up. warned Carletto that the team was going to suffer and was on it. He had a miura in front of him.
those of Ancelotti regrouped in defense ahead of Courteous, closing the spaces to the arrivals of the second line. The ball belonged to the English against a Madrid that did not last on their feet. There was no trace of Benzema in the rival area and vinicius had disappeared from the map. The Chelsea It was an awkward game. He snorted Real Madrid at halftime.
Rüdiger equalizes the tie
There was no better news after the break, with a Chelsea who defended with a line of four and left only three behind when he attacked adding to Mark Alonso at arrivals. When the moves accelerated, the danger increased and White’s uncertainty increased. Chelsea were besieging the home venues when Rudiger he heads a corner, which was not, to the net. The center back portrayed Alaba in its air deficit. Equal playoff. Not a trace of stage fright for a team that justified its status as current champion of Europe.
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With 40 minutes to go and the Madrid sounded, the Chelsea He was still within range of the whites, punishing them relentlessly. The locals missed their midfield tuning in to the game and supplying vinicius Y Benzema of clean balls. A play of momentum ignited the stands, which in the absence of football resorted to the epic, another night, to become one more footballer of the duel. The Bernabeu was beginning to play his game just when an error of Mendy generated an English counter that ended with a shoe to the squad of Mark Alonso that left Madrid out. But the ball touched the Spaniard’s hand before shooting and the WHERE he annulled it by literally applying the norm. Extra ball for Madrid.
Rodrygo rescues Madrid
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The Bernabeu, turned on, came the rescue of his team. And the disallowed goal Mark Alonso served as a turning point a Madrid who seemed to resuscitate with a header to the crossbar of Benzema. It was a mirage because a play riddled with errors ended with another arrival in space, this time by Werner, and German goal. With a quarter of an hour to go Madrid was out of the Champions thrashed in their stadium. But the epic appeared with a recovery that hunted Modricwho with a masterful pass from outside, put it on the arrival of a Rodrygo who sent the first ball he touched into the net. The extension was reached thanks to a save by Courteous and the failures of Pulisic.
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He was Madrid broken by fatigue, with half an hour to go, and the Chelsea without stopping biting. But midway through the first part of extra time, a recovery of camavinga ended in a pass to viniciuswho gave a delicious pass to Benzema, who stuck his head into the net. The unstoppable epic of Bernabeu worked the miracle again and rescued, the most difficult night, a Madrid that is in the semifinals of Champions. Carletto He was right: they won by suffering.
FICHA: REAL MADRID 2-CHELSEA 3
REAL MADRID: Courtois (7); Carvajal (7), Alaba (4), Nacho (5), Mendy (4); Kroos (4), Modric (7), Casemiro (5); Valverde (7), Vinicius Jr (7), Benzema (7). Coach: Ancelotti (5). Gears: Camavinga (7) for Kross (m.72), Marcelo (6) for Mendy (m.77), Rodrygo (8) for Casemiro (m.77), Lucas Vázquez (6) for Nacho (m.87) , Ceballos (sc) by Vinicius (d.114)
CHELSEA: Mendi (6); James (6), Thiago Silva (6), Rudiger (8), Marcos Alonso (7); Kante (7), Kovacic (7), Loftus-Cheek (6); Mount (8), Havertz (8), Werner (7). Coach: Tuchel (8). Substitutions: Pulisic (6) for Werner (m.82), Ziyech for Kanté (m.99), Jorginho for Kovacic (m.105), Saúl for Loftus-Cheek (m.105)
GOALS: 0-1, Mount (m.15), 0-2, Rudiger (m.51), 0-3, Werner (m.75), 1-3, Rodrygo (m.81), 2-3, Benzema (m.97)
REFEREE: Szymon Marciniak (7), de Polonia.
CARDS: Reece James (m.9), Benzema (m.36), Valverde (m.68), Camavinga (m.90), Ziyech (m.101), Havertz (m.108), Azpilicueta (m.113) , Tuchel (m.113), Carvajal (m.118)
STADIUM: Santiago Bernabeu. 60,000 spectators.