Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo’s 37th hat-trick for Real Madrid saw Los Blancos past Wolfsburg 3-2 in the Champions League and into the semi-finals.
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Cristiano Ronaldo sent Real Madrid through to the semi-final of the Champions League with a brilliant freekick that sealed his hat-trick, but insisted that it was not his best performance.
Trailing 2-0 prior to kick-off, Ronaldo scored twice in as many first-half minutes before completing the comeback and 3-2 aggregate triumph 13 minutes from time in the Spanish capital.
With extra time looming it was Ronaldo who won the tie for Real with a free-kick in the 77th minute – his 16th Champions League goal of the season in just ten games.
Cristiano Ronaldo makes his point, walking off the pitch with the ball under his shirt after scoring his 35th career hat-trick.
And when asked who he wanted to face in the last four, the Portugal captain said: “I want Benfica”. It wasn’t easy to say the truth, but I’m very happy and very proud about everything they’ve done. “People can criticise me but I just keep in going and the numbers are there for all to see”. “When the fans really get behind the team they are like another player”.
A good and relatively trouble free night for Zidane then – except for one embarrassing moment. “Goals are in my DNA and I want to keep scoring them for the team”.
Victory seals a place in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the sixth season running and it is also the sixth successive campaign in which the No7 has passed 45 goals in all competitions. In the first leg in Germany, the La Liga giants had fallen to a 2-0 loss.
“It was sensational, from the first minute to the last”, Ramos said of the raucous atmosphere at the Bernabeu. Up front, we lacked the necessary luck’.
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“The Real Madrid forward has scored more goals on his own than the entire Arsenal team since September 2013”.
