Real Madrid Ronaldo, Bale back for Champions League clash

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51′ GOAL! Napoli 1-1 Real Madrid: Real was chasing the game when a Hamsik giveaway led to a corner kick for the visitors.

Real Madrid Lineup: Keylor Navas; Dani Carvajal, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo; Casemiro, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric; Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema.

The Gunners played a very good first half, probably the best in the 2017, but failed to score a couple of times.

Zinedine Zidane’s side go into the round-of-16 second leg ahead after winning the first tie 3-1 at the Bernabeu.

This continued until Madrid overturned the deficit soon after the break, with Sergio Ramos netting two trademark headed goals from corners within six minutes of each other.

“He’s changed his game slightly”.

“Of course it annoys us”, Benzema said. Not surprisingly, in the first home game since the defeat in Munich, there were demonstrations against his continued management of the club before the game, with a few dozen Arsenal supporters marching on the Emirates carrying a banner on which was written, “NO NEW CONTRACT” and chanting, “Arsene Wenger, we want you to go!” We’re all here and I’m happy for that.

The man who sparked Real’s revival is starting to become a familiar name on the scoresheet this season and proved that he is a man for the big occasion. We win by working.

“I don’t think we were lucky”, the Real boss added. “We just do our jobs”.

“We have to believe we can hurt them”.

But although he expects a “difficult” game, the former World Cup victor said Real expect one result only. Sure, he’s known to have his moments of insanity or make the odd mind-boggling mistake or poor decision, but when he’s not doing that, Ramos is quite simply one of the finest defenders in the world.

Having impressed in the first leg, Napoli did more of the same in the second as their effort came in vain against the defending champions.

Luigi De Magistris, the mayor of Naples, was among the critics, saying in an official city government statement that “everything is more hard for us Neapolitans”.

It was Merten’s turn to clatter the woodwork in the 37th minute when he took a loose ball on the spin but couldn’t find the net. Now one point behind Barca in the title race with a game in hand, Los Merengues need their rivals to be competing on multiple fronts during the run-in. “We made life very tough for a very strong team, even though we had several young players on the pitch”.