Real Madrid 3-0 Atletico Madrid
Cristiano Ronaldo scored yet another brilliant hat-trick to put Los Blancos completely in charge of their Champions League destiny against Madrid rivals Atletico.
Fans that look at goal scorers as part of their online betting don’t really need to look any further than Ronaldo. He always delivers; and in a replay of last year’s final Atletico never really looked like exacting the revenge they craved. The betting odds are now firmly on Real making another final.
Real dominated the first half and it took just ten minutes for Ronaldo to head Los Blancos in front, and that was the great man’s 50th knock-out goal in the Champions League. But the hosts failed to breach a stubborn Atletico defence again before the break and the visitors gradually played their way into the game.
Diego Simeone tried to up the ante on the hour, making a double change, bringing Fernando Torres and Nico Gaitan on for Kevin Gameiro and Saul Niguez. Ten minutes later he brought on Angel Correa while Atletico fans began to think a one goal deficit wasn’t a disaster. But it didn’t end there.
On 73 minutes Karim Benzema set up Ronaldo to smash home from just inside the box to put Los Blancos two up. And when Real’s talisman side footed a third on 86 minutes it was back-to-back hat-tricks for Cristiano.
That’s ten goals in the tournament for the top man; and these were three that really mattered.
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