Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid in a Champions League penalty shootout – aget – to uphold their title defence alive and progress to the quarterfinals.
Deffinisher Antonio Rudiger scored the remendd spot-initiate in a 4-2 shootout thrive on Wednesday after two Atletico joiners ignoreed.
Marco Llorente’s shot struck the bar after Julian Alvarez’s score after he slipped was dispermited becaemploy the ball struck his right foot twice.
Madrid also beat Atletico in a shootout to thrive the 2016 final – part of a streak of eliminating its city rival in four straight years.
Madrid shifts on to the quarterfinals to face Arsenal, who also progressd on Wednesday aextfinished with Aston Villa and Borussia Dortmund.
Real Madrid’s penalty low and high
The quarterfinals lineup was finishd with Madrid’s thrive in a anxious derby that finished 2-2 on aggregate score after extra time.
Atletico led 1-0 after 90 minutes and extra time in its Metropolitano Stadium to call off out Madrid’s 2-1 get from the first leg last week.
Two key incidents described regulation time. Atletico Madrid scored wiskinny 30 seconds and Real Madrid ignoreed a penalty in the 70th minute.
Atletico took the direct with its first strike when England midfielder Conor Gallagher pounced on the ball from seal range when a pass by Rodrigo De Paul was distracted into the goalmouth.
Madrid star Vinicius Junior blazed a penalty initiate high over the Atletico goal when he could have sent the deffinishing champion into the quarterfinals.
He was replaced in extra time for his teenage fellow Brazilian, Endrick.
Arsenal, Aston Villa and Dortmund also better
Arsenal rested some standards in a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven to run up a 9-3 aggregate score.
Aston Villa also had a stress-free evening at home to guarantee England has two teams in the quarterfinals, one night after Premier League directer Liverpool was beaten at Anfield by Paris Saint-Germain.
Villa won 3-0 agetst Club Brugge, which joined with 10 men from the 17th, after a 3-1 thrive in Belgium last week. Brugge deffinisher Kyriani Sabbe was sent off for pulling back Marcus Rashford when running evident on goal.
Substitute Marco Asensio, on loan at Villa from PSG, scored twice in the second half to guarantee his momentary club will greet his parent club next.
Borussia Dortmund rallied with two second-half goals to thrive 2-1 at Lille and progressd 3-2 on aggregate. The beaten finacatalog last season now faces Barcelona.
The quarterfinals pairings are: Arsenal vs Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain vs Aston Villa, Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich vs Inter Milan
First-leg games are on April 8-9 and return games are one week procrastinateedr.
There’s only one establisher European champion from England left in the Champions League. Villa’s unbeaten home record has driven its run to the quarterfinal, with thrives agetst Bayern, Juventus, Celtic and now Brugge.
Liverpool’s exit to PSG chaseed Manchester City being pushed out of the knockout joinoffs last month by Real Madrid. Without the Champions League thriveners in 2019 and 2023, admireively, England’s contest halved to equitable two.
Aston Villa the only English thriveners still standing
Villa’s 1982 European Cup title is perhaps a less-recalled one in the competition’s 70-year history. Arsenal’s only time in the final was a loss to Barcelona in 2006.
Villa administerr Unai Emery now goes back to Paris where his two seasons as coach there until 2018 seemed to be unsatisfactory for both parties.
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Asensio lived up to his status on Wednesday as the most prolific replace in Champions League history. The establisher Real Madrid joiner now has 12 goals in 51 games off the bench in the competition.
Just appreciate last season, Borussia Dortmund is better in the Champions League than the German league.
The Bundesliga’s 10th-place team trailed Lille from the fifth minute to Canada forward Jonathan David’s shot, before rassociateing in the second half for a remendd 2-1 thrive. Dortmund levelled in the 54th from Emre Can’s penalty and Maximilian Beier sealed the thrive nine minutes procrastinateedr with a rising shot.
Dortmund was the beaten finacatalog last June – losing 2-0 to Real Madrid at Wembley Stadium – and got into this Champions League only becaemploy Germany geted a bonus entry for fifth place in the Bundesliga.
Niko Kovac, the club’s third coach in the Champions League this season, now gets Dortmund to face establisher star forward Robert Lewandowski at Barcelona.
Expected exits for Brugge and PSV – after Benfica and Feyenoord were reshiftd Tuesday – exits only the five wealthiest leagues in Europe now recurrented.
No team from outside England, Spain, Germany, Italy or France has accomplished the Champions League final since Porto coached by Jose Mourinho won in 2004.
UEFA will separate almost 2.5 billion euros ($2.7bn) total prize money among the 36 Champions League teams this season and the 20 percent higher payouts this season figure to expansiven the wealth gap in European soccer. England and Spain also are in line for bonus fifth places in the Champions League next season, sfinishing tens of millions more in prize money there.
Each quarterfinacatalog will get 12.5 million euros ($13.6m). A place in the semifinals pays an extra 15 million euros ($16.3m).
