Real Madrid and Napoli, the current holders of the trophy, reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday night.
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“Real” beat “Liverpool” in the return match of the round of 16 with the result 1:0 (0:0), winning in two games with a devastating 6:2.
The goal of the Madrid team was scored by Karim Benzema in the 79th minute of the game, who sent the ball into the visitors’ goal after a pass from Vinicius Junior. During the match, the Spanish club had several excellent opportunities to score goals, but they were not used, and the Brazilian Alisson was excellent in Liverpool’s goal.
In the first match of the round of 16, the Madrid team celebrated a 5-2 victory, laying the essential foundations for a victory in the sum of two games.
4 – Liverpool’s 6-2 aggregate loss to Real Madrid is their heaviest margin of defeat over two legs of a UEFA Champions League knockout tie. Dispatched. pic.twitter.com/mqfLcL1Pa9
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 15, 2023
Meanwhile, “Napoli” won 3-0 (1-0) against Frankfurt “Eintracht” in the second leg of the round of 16 at home and celebrated a 5-0 victory in the sum of two games without conceding a single goal.
At the end of the first half, the hosts were put in the lead by Victor Osimhen, who doubled the advantage of “Napoli” after eight minutes of play in the second half.
On the other hand, in the 64th minute, Piotrs Zeliņskis, accurately executing a 11-meter penalty kick, made it 3:0.
In the first round of 16 match, the Italian team celebrated a 2-0 victory.
In the quarter-finals, “Benfica” of Lisbon, which defeated “Club Brugge” 7-1 in the sum of two matches, “AC Milan”, which was superior to “Tottenham Hotspur” 1-0, “Chelsea” of London, which was 2-1, entered the quarter-finals. Borussia Dortmund won, Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0, Manchester City beat Leipzig 8-1 and Inter Milan beat 1: 0 won by “Porto”.
32 teams played in the main tournament of the UEFA Champions League. The two best teams of each subgroup made it to the round of 16, while the third-placed team continued their season in the UEFA Europa League elimination tournament.
“Real” Madrid beat “Liverpool” 1:0 in the final of the 2021/2022 season competition in Paris.
This season, the final is scheduled for June 10 in Istanbul, Turkey.
