It was\u00a0Real Madrid’s best minutes of the game, and\u00a0they might have extended their lead when\u00a0Arda G\u00fcler\u00a0swung in a corner in the 34th minute for\u00a0Asencio\u00a0to meet with a header, but Trubin made a fine save with both hands. And from potentially 0-2 it was 1-1 two minutes later when Schjelderup headed home from a swift counter-attack. The Norwegian player almost grabbed his second in the 40th minute, but\u00a0Valverde\u00a0prevented the goal on the goal line. It was 2-1 when Pavlidis converted Pavlidis’ penalty for\u00a0Tchouameni’s grabbing of Otamendi.<\/p>\n
Mbapp\u00e9 grabs second
The Whites had to come from behind after the break and\u00a0Vini Jr.\u00a0very nearly equalised in the 47th minute with a header that flew just over. However, the script was different. The home side were defending in their own half, but a counter-attack saw Schjelderup make it 3-1. Things got even more complex, but in the 58th minute it was 3-2.\u00a0Arda G\u00fcler\u00a0cut inside the area and set up\u00a0Mbapp\u00e9\u00a0to score with a tight right-footed shot from the outside of the box. It was the Frenchman’s 13th goal in this\u00a0Champions League.<\/p>\n
The game was a nail-biting affair and our team was in full swing against a team with two lines of five players to overcome. They had a chance to equalise in the 77th minute with a shot from\u00a0Rodrygo, who was offside, but Trubin cleared. And there was also a chance to make it 4-2 when Barreiro’s shot in the six-yard box was saved by\u00a0Courtois. In stoppage time,\u00a0Asencio\u00a0was sent off for a double yellow. And in the final moments,\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0were reduced to nine men after\u00a0Rodrygo\u00a0picked up two yellow cards for protesting. In the last 16, from a free-kick, goalkeeper Trubin headed home to send the Portuguese side through, who could be our opponents in the play-off for the last 16. The other possible opponent in Friday’s draw is Bod\u00f8\/Glimt.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was\u00a0Real Madrid’s best minutes of the game, and\u00a0they might have extended their lead when\u00a0Arda G\u00fcler\u00a0swung in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-262720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}