“Playing well, with the players on the pitch, those on the bench and with the 80,000 people who I would love to see in the stadium supporting the team.” said the Portuguese forward.
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“It must be a ideal night”, Cristiano Ronaldo admitted in an interview with the Real Madrid website after he scored in the win over Eibar.
“We know that we have a very exciting game”.”What I can say is that winning here is a huge reward for our players because the truth is that they played an enormous match”. Suddenly, following the previous week’s victory over the Catalans at the Camp Nou, Real Madrid’s La Liga titles hopes have been revived.
Real Madrid only had three shots on target in the first leg against Wolfsburg, their lowest tally in a Champions League game since October 2012 (2 v Dortmund).
The only way Real Madrid can salvage a troubled season is to overturn their 2-0 Champions League deficit in Tuesday’s return match against VfL Wolfsburg, said coach Zinedine Zidane. We have to be fully concentrated and close the space in front of our goal.
Torres bounced back from his sending-off in the midweek Champions League defeat to Barca by scoring his third goal in as many games, cancelling out Papa Diop’s opener in the 29th minute for Espanyol. During the season we were not always at our best, but we are also able to achieve great things.
“I don’t think the supporters will give us a bad reception”. We are aware of the importance of Tuesday’s game. They lost the first leg of their semifinals away to Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus in 2012, 2013 and 2015, but were unable to actually comeback and win the series.
“As a coach I live these days before the knockout tie with more tension than as a player”, Zidane said.
And as CEO Allofs said Wolfsburg even seems to be surprised to get a chance like that: “We all thought the trip to Madrid would just be some sort of excursion, but now it is Real who is having to have a second thought”.
Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking has told Real Madrid defender Marcelo to “cut out the acting”.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 30th La Liga goal of the season on Saturday and following on from his wonderful performance in El Clasico, it will be up to the 31-year-old to make a difference against Wolfsburg on Tuesday.
He caused Real’s defense, particularly right back Danilo, all manner of problems with his quick incisive runs and combination play with Andre Schürrle and Bruno Henrique.
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Wolfsburg warmed up for the trip to Spain with a 1-1 draw at home to Mainz on Saturday, a result which left them eighth in the Bundesliga, nine points adrift of the top four.
