“For me, the most important match is always the next one”.
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“In the end, the supporters love their players and that is what matters”, Zidane said. “And Totti appreciated the gesture”.
Ronaldo scored his 13th goal in the competition this season by turning home a cross by substitute forward Lucas Vazquez in the 64th and Rodriguez added to the lead four minutes later with a low shot from inside the area to give Madrid a 4-0 aggregate victory.
“I’ve learnt a great deal from him, and I’ve used some of his ideas in training”. “I’ve admired him since I was small”, Ramos said.
The 26-year-old returned to the starting XI for Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League win over Roma, and he feels that he is reaching a new level as a player under the guidance of the former midfielder. “I’m not in favour of selling him”.
The Giallorossi must score at least twice to progress to the Quarter-Finals of the competition. This means that Roma must score three times in order to avoid the lethal penalty shootout, a huge daunting task for the Italian club.
Ronaldo also opened the scoring in the first leg against Roma to take his tally in the Champions League to 12 in just seven games this season. Whistles are part of football, they don’t only whistle Cristiano.
At the Santiago Bernabeu, Ronaldo will lead Real Madrid against Roma, while Wolfsburg take a 3-2 lead in their clash with Ghent at Volkswagen Arena.
“I am the coach and I want Cristiano”, said the Frenchman, who also played for Madrid between 2001 and 2006.
Ronaldo and Rodriguez banged in the goals within four minutes of each other after the hour mark in the last-16 second leg tie to secure a 4-0 aggregate victory.
It was indeed Luciano Spalletti’s side who threatened largely for much of the second-leg, with Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko going close in the first-half.
AS Roma will make the trip without Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Rudiger, both of whom are now nursing a calf and thigh problem respectively. We will just have to wait and see what happens. Roma also had their chances and could have scored one or two goals, but we also had a lot of opportunities.
We highlighted three weeks ago that Gent’s success has been largely based on their home form and having lost the first leg back in Belgium 3-2, they are in trouble here.
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The pace of the match was set early on, with Madrid making the first attack of the night within the first minute before Roma whipped a ball into the box that forced Keylor Navas to come out and get a punch on it to clear and Alessandro Florenzi’s testing ball in towards the far post nearly carved out a chance for Stephan El Shaarawy. Casemiro and Mateo Kovacic replaced the duo on Saturday and could retain their position in the Real Madrid lineup should Kroos and Modric be declared unfit to start the match.
