MADRID PLAYED WITH FIRE AGAINST LEIPZIG
Real Madrid enters the Champions League quarterfinals, suffering against Leipzig (1-1)
Published:6/03/2024 - 22:53h
Updated:7/03/2024 - 01:31h
Real Madrid made good the victory obtained in the first leg in Germany against a combative RB Leipzig that managed to draw at the Santiago Bernabéu (1-1). Marco Rose's men were much superior in the return, but they paid dearly for their lack of aim
The Real Madrid advanced to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League by fourth consecutive season after a suffered tie home in front of the RB Leipzig. The whites did not attain to control the centre of the field and happened a lot of difficulties in defence, but thanks to a goal of Vinicius Jr. And the advantage obtained in the gone attained to classify in front of a combativo conjoint German.
The Madrid went out much more replegado of the usual, with a strangely passive approach that did not take in generating whispers and whistles in the grandstands of Santiago Bernabéu. The ones of Carlo Ancelotti closed the first part without finishing to door and with a 56 % of possession totally barren, whereas the Leipzig yes generated danger in the arch defended by Lunin.
Vinicius Jr. It was the only in showing something of rebeldía in the first 45 minutes, whereas the team visitor wasted three clear occasions in the booties of Loïs Openda. The Belgian had the opportunities to equalise the eliminatory, but could not finish to door. A yellow to Schlager by a fault on 'Vini' and a clear of Lunin to the corner were the most stood out of a first taut part in Chamartín.
The referee and the VAR forgave the expulsion to Vinicius
Ancelotti Looked for the reaction of his team putting to Rodrygo by Camavinga in the rest, but the Madrid followed immersed in a lethargy desesperante for the fans 'merengue'. At all more begin the complement, a bad exit of Lunin almost allows him to Benjamin Sesko finish to empty door, but the put Ukrainian attained to return to time to the area to recover the balloon thanks to the coverage of Dani Carvajal.
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On the minute 54 arrived the controversy of the night. Vinicius, very hot from before the rest, him propinó a push to the breast to Willi Orbán and saw the yellow. The VAR reviewed the played, but decided to keep the initial decision of the Italian referee Davide Massa of not expelling to the Brazilian, although the action produced without balloon and of flagrant form. The Madrid improved in the following ten minutes and attained to put in advantage thanks to a goal of the '7'.
...And 'Vini' took advantage of to advance to the Madrid
In the minute 65', a loss in exit of the Leipzig was taken advantage of by Jude Bellingham to enable to the extreme. The English filtered a precise pass that 'Vini' finished of first, previous anticipate to Willi Orbán, leaving without options to the goalkeeper Gulácsi. The eliminatory seemed sentenced with the 2-0 global, but the visitors did not surrender and, in the following action of danger, attained to equalise the meeting.
Fast answer of the Leipzig, but insufficient
The German group brushed the tie in the 66' by means of Xavi Simons, but Antonio Rüdiger diverted to the corner the finish of the canterano of the FC Barcelona. After the kickoff of corner, David Ram served a centre from the right to the point penalti, just where Orbán appeared to finish of head, doing barren the estirón of Lunin. The 1-1 returned the nerves to the Bernabéu and the Leipzig had at least a pair of clear occasions to command the party to the lengthen.
However, the whites resisted and already are in chambers, with a lot of doubts after an eliminatory complicadísima. Dani Elm, in the discount, had the clearest with a finish to the stick in which Lunin only did sight. The of the Madrid in the turn was very poor, but the luck, as almost always in this competition, was of his side.
