Real Madrid reached their tenth Champions League semifinal inside the final twelve seasons in spite of losing 2-3 to Chelsea on Tuesday night.
The defeat will all the time be with the Chelsea players who gave everything to overturn a two-purpose deficit from the first leg to steer three-0 on the Bernabeu at a selected factor in the game.
Mason Mount gave the traffic a 15th-minute lead with a medical end past Thibaut Courtois to come to be best the third Englishman to score a UCL intention in opposition to Real Madrid on the Bernabéu after Alan Smith (2001) and Danny Welbeck (2013).
Chelsea doubled their benefit 5 mins after the restart courtesy of Antonio Rüdiger from Mount’s nook. Things could have gone worse for Madrid when Marcos Alonso notion he had prolonged Chelsea's lead with a nicely-taken goal most effective for it to be chopped off by means of VAR.
But the setback did not deter them from scoring a third thru Timo Werner minutes later. The German placed the west Londoners up 4-3 on combination after slaloming his manner through the Real protection from the left flank and noticed his shot take a deflection before beating Courtois inside the 75 minutes.
Just as Chelsea was dreaming of an area in the remaining 4, Luka Modrić picked out alternative Rodrygo with a exceptional assist from the outdoor of his proper foot, and the Brazilian fired an extremely good first-time volley to degree the aggregate rating at 4-four 5 minutes later.
The intention pressured the game into greater time and captain Karim Benzema rose up again to score the decisive purpose while he met Vinícius Júnior’s move six mins into more time.
