The first half of the match in Rome does not abound in many situations that przyprawiały beat faster the hearts of fans of both teams. Guests controlled the game, try to patiently build up their stocks, but Roma put effective barbed wire in front of their goal. Each loss “Royal” resulted in an attempt of establishing a rapid counterattack. The hosts were counting especially on a very dynamic Salah, who several times escaped defenders guests, but not once could not show off the efficiency in front of goal Keylor Navas. The Romans also tried to take advantage of the brilliant Stephan El Shaarawy’ego, Italian fans but lacked precision in strokes.
Standing between the posts Romans Wojciech Szczesny had a very quiet first half – just write that for the first 45 minutes, none of the goalkeepers had never been forced to intervene after the shots the players of the opposite team.
The beginning of the second half brought no great change in the game, but in the 57th minute flashed star Cristiano Ronaldo. Portuguese deceived Florenziego, went down with the ball inside and hit the far corner of the net Szczesny. The ball bounced off the leg intervening defenders and fell into the net above the hands intervening keeper.
Roma had to try to put everything on one card, but it risked it on counterattacks. Away goal was definitely one of the most important goals of “Royal”, especially considering the difficulties caused them to tear up the pass – this match did not go according to expectations of their fans, who hoped for an easy victory. From the minute the game took on momentum, the Romans opened up and played more boldly, guests and tried to take advantage of the relaxation of the defensive opponents.
On 74 minutes Ronaldo missed a good opportunity mistaken by several centimeters before firing head. Simple solution, blow for blow – last several minutes of the meeting viewed the fans a really good game.
In the 86th minute, when it seemed that Real will try to defend the lead, headed the ball into the net introduced moments before Jese. After several meters through these run at the passive attitude of the players Romy, the Spaniard hit between the legs of defenders and sent the ball precisely the far post remained beyond the reach of Wojciech Szczesny.
The result of the perfect, which probably took Roma faith in advancing to the next round. A successful debut in the Champions League scored by Zinedine Zidane, who has recorded very good results as a coach, “Royal”. On what would become his team this season? Each successive match says more about the team Frenchman and so far are positive indications.
In the second challenge on the good side wanted to show one of the major surprises of this edition of the Champions League, the Belgian Gent. The band, who in the group stage got the better of Lyon and Valencia, but has easily Wolfsburg.
In the 60th minute the guests from Germany led 3: 0, foretold that the meeting may end in rout of rivals. Gent, however, get an honorable goal, and in the very end of the meeting also added a goal to 2: 3. Chances in the second match with a team from the Bundesliga certainly are not large, but it hit can leave a glimmer of hope football club Cinderella, who was among the major companies in these prestigious competitions.
It seems that the defeat of the decided lack of experience – rivals gave less and less shots were on the ball, but the show of a masterwork of efficiency.
Results of matches 1/8 finals football LM:
February 17, Wednesday
KAA Gent – VfL Wolfsburg 2: 3 (0: 1)
AS Roma – Real Madrid 0: 2 (0: 0)
16 February, Tuesday
Paris St. Germain – Chelsea 2: 1 (1: 1)
Benfica – Zenit St. Petersburg 1: 0 (0: 0)
other matches:
February 23, Tuesday
Arsenal FC – FC Barcelona (h. 20.45)
Juventus – Bayern Munich (20.45 )
February 24, Wednesday
PSV Eindhoven – Atletico Madrid (20.45)
Dynamo Kiev – Manchester City (20.45)
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