Re: Champions league - cuartos de final
Real Madrid 3-0 Borussia Dortmund: Dominant display & one foot in the semis
Goals from Gareth Bale, Isco and Cristiano Ronaldo secured an important win for Real Madrid in the Champions League, who never looked like losing the tie from the first whistle.
Gareth Bale got Madrid off to a flying start in the third minute when he intricately controlled and poked the ball past Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller inside the six-yard-box, after some good link up play between Karim Benzema and Dani Carvajal on the right-hand-side.
Madrid’s possession based style of play at the Bernabeu made it difficult for Dortmund to get back into the game as Ancelotti’s players pressed for a second.
Ronaldo tested Weidenfeller twice inside two minutes around the 12-minute mark, with a free-kick that was tipped over and a shot that was struck just wide.
As the game progressed, Dortmund saw more of the ball as Madrid opted to soak up the pressure to counter attack at pace. It was when Dortmund failed cleared their lines following one of these dangerous breakaways when Xabi Alonso’s outstretched foot presented the ball to Isco on the edge of the box. The midfielder made himself half a yard before accurately firing into the bottom left hand corner to double his side’s lead.
Dortmund then had a half-hearted penalty appeal turned down by referee Mark Clattenburg when Mkhitaryan was forcefully pushed off the ball by Pepe, one of the few times the away side managed to get the ball inside the Madrid box during the first 45 minutes.
Bale almost got his second in the same minute he scored in the first half, but Weidenfeller spread himself well to deny the Welshman.
Robert Lewandowski’s absence was then clear to see moments later when Aubameyang flashed a shot wide of the target; Dortmund’s best chance of the game so far.
Both sides then wasted good opportunities to score, Sokratis lucky to flick over a Ronaldo cross and Mkhitaryan hitting wide on the break.
Soon after, Ronaldo, in his 100th Champions League appearance, made it three. Madrid did well to win the ball back high up the pitch and Modric played the ball into the path of Ronaldo, who scored his 14th goal in this season’s competition.
Mkhitaryan thought he had made up for his earlier miss just after the third goal, but Pepe’s shin denied him of that when his shot from close range was deflected over the bar.
With five minutes to go Bale blazed over the bar following a run which started at the halfway line, as the tired Dortmund players gifted him the chance of making it four.
This turned out to be the biggest opportunity for either side to score within a quiet last twenty minutes at the Bernabeu, as Real Madrid strolled to another win and their second clean sheet in five days.
Real Madrid 3-0 Borussia Dortmund: Dominant display & one foot in the semis
Goals from Gareth Bale, Isco and Cristiano Ronaldo secured an important win for Real Madrid in the Champions League, who never looked like losing the tie from the first whistle.
Gareth Bale got Madrid off to a flying start in the third minute when he intricately controlled and poked the ball past Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller inside the six-yard-box, after some good link up play between Karim Benzema and Dani Carvajal on the right-hand-side.
Madrid’s possession based style of play at the Bernabeu made it difficult for Dortmund to get back into the game as Ancelotti’s players pressed for a second.
Ronaldo tested Weidenfeller twice inside two minutes around the 12-minute mark, with a free-kick that was tipped over and a shot that was struck just wide.
As the game progressed, Dortmund saw more of the ball as Madrid opted to soak up the pressure to counter attack at pace. It was when Dortmund failed cleared their lines following one of these dangerous breakaways when Xabi Alonso’s outstretched foot presented the ball to Isco on the edge of the box. The midfielder made himself half a yard before accurately firing into the bottom left hand corner to double his side’s lead.
Dortmund then had a half-hearted penalty appeal turned down by referee Mark Clattenburg when Mkhitaryan was forcefully pushed off the ball by Pepe, one of the few times the away side managed to get the ball inside the Madrid box during the first 45 minutes.
Bale almost got his second in the same minute he scored in the first half, but Weidenfeller spread himself well to deny the Welshman.
Robert Lewandowski’s absence was then clear to see moments later when Aubameyang flashed a shot wide of the target; Dortmund’s best chance of the game so far.
Both sides then wasted good opportunities to score, Sokratis lucky to flick over a Ronaldo cross and Mkhitaryan hitting wide on the break.
Soon after, Ronaldo, in his 100th Champions League appearance, made it three. Madrid did well to win the ball back high up the pitch and Modric played the ball into the path of Ronaldo, who scored his 14th goal in this season’s competition.
Mkhitaryan thought he had made up for his earlier miss just after the third goal, but Pepe’s shin denied him of that when his shot from close range was deflected over the bar.
With five minutes to go Bale blazed over the bar following a run which started at the halfway line, as the tired Dortmund players gifted him the chance of making it four.
This turned out to be the biggest opportunity for either side to score within a quiet last twenty minutes at the Bernabeu, as Real Madrid strolled to another win and their second clean sheet in five days.
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