The reigning Champions League winner real Madrid has created a good advantage before the return trip to Naples.
For the “real” playoffs of the Champions League began not as expected tribunes “Santiago Bernabeu”. In the eighth minute Insigne has popped up on a date with a Keilor Navas, but did not converge with a Costa Rican, and in cold blood from a long distance punished the goalkeeper for a positional mistake.
Real Madrid did not dwell on local failure and quickly restored parity – Carvajal swedol cut a cross into the penalty area, and Benzema scored his 51st goal in the Champions League and became the most successful Frenchman in the history of the main club tournament in the world.
Double blow to the chances of Napoli real Madrid did in the second half – on 49-th minute Kroos in the penalty took advantage of the perfect transfer of Ronaldo, and five minutes later Casemiro gorgeous hinged strike on the perfect arc sent “round” in Reina’s goal.
Return to Napoli in the game twice might Mertens, and Insigne’s goal was rightly cancelled out for offside. Their moments were the hosts, but the score in this match didn’t change.
Real — Napoli 3:1
Goals: Benzema, 19, Kroos, 49, Casemiro, 54 — Insigne, 8
Real Madrid: Navas – Carvajal Ramos (Pepe, 71), Varane, Marcelo – Morata, Casemiro, Kroos – James (Waxes, 76), Benzema, Ronaldo
Napoli: Reina – Hisi, Albiol, Koulibaly, Ghulam – Zielinski (Allan, 75), Diawara, Hamsik (Milik, 86) – Callejon, Mertens, Insigne
Warning: Ramos, Modric — Zielinski, Mertens
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