Arsenal will play a team from Madrid in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, but it is not entirely clear that after a narrow last 16 first leg in Santiago Bernabeu.
Real Madrid is trying to win the Champions League for the third time in four seasons and, after a game that was illuminated by three excellent goals, will lead 2-1 against the rival of City, Atletico Madrid.
Rodrygo cut in from the right and was a wonderful finish in the fourth minute over Jan Oblak to put Los Blancos in front of him, only for Julian Alvarez to surpass him with a spectacular long-distance strike that was bent into the top right corner in the 32nd minute.
This is a strike by Julián Alvarez
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But it was another former striker of Manchester City who would have the last word, Brahim Diaz, who escaped three Atletico defenders before shot over a helpless Oblak to give Carlo Ancleotti’s men a slim edge.
If you hold it on to the Metrpolitano next week, the owners will compete against Arsenal, who essentially sealed their quarter-finals with an incredible 7: 1 route from PSV Eindhoven.
Real Madrid takes the lead against the run of the game
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Gates in the first half of Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwaneri and Mikel Merino have arranged Arsenal Commander. Noah Lang pulled a back from the penalty point before half -time, but Martin Odegaard achieved a clip in the second half, and Leandro Trossard and Riccardo Calafiori were also committed to rendering the bandage about the formality of an endangered second leg.
Aston Villa is not quite as comfortable, but you also command your last tie after a remarkable late collapse from Club Brugge.
It looked like the pages were returning to Villa Park with 1-1 after Leon Baileys was canceled by Maxim de Cuyper. However, Brandon Mechele enforced his own network eight minutes before time and Christos Tzolis gave away a punishment that Marco Asensio converted the villa with Liverpool or Paris Saint-Germain on the sidelines of a draw.
It is all that can be played between Borussia Dortmund and Lille after the Ligue 1 team in Signal Iduna Park had covered a 1-1 draw. Karim Adeyemis malignant deep strike gave Dortmund the lead, but Hakon Arnar Haraldson campaigned at the end of a great team to keep Lille in the mix for the last eight o’clock.
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