Wednesday brought us two new pairs of Champions League quarterfinals and two important things: Karim Benzema is definitely one of the best strikers in the world, and Bayern Munich is not invincible!
The Real Madrid players conquered “Stamford Bridge” and with three goals by Karim Benzema achieved a convincing victory against Chelsea, with the result 3: 1. The French striker scored in the 21st, 24th and 46th minutes, while the only goal for the “Blues” was scored by Havertz in the 40th minute of the game.
The master is the master. This is not a victory for Real Madrid, although, say, Luka Modric must be respected for his game, this is a victory for Karim Benzema!
The Frenchman is simply unstoppable and somehow out of habit – he hits when Madrid needs it the most. It is not easy to score against Chelsea, and especially not three times in the Champions League.
Karim Benzema succeeded. The first opportunity – after a dangerous counterattack by Real Madrid, the mastery of Benzema, the Brazilian Vinicius Junior hits the crossbar! He missed, but the Frenchman is not wrong.
Benzema scored with his head from ten meters, after only 20 minutes of play. Three minutes later – Modric centered, and the French international scored again with a header for Real’s big advantage – 0: 2.
Havertz gave hope to the London “blues”, who scored a goal in the 40th minute and reduced the gap to 1: 2, after the phenomenal throw-in by Jorginho, but…
Benzema decided to be the central figure tonight and for Real to do a good part of the work already in London. However, this third goal also goes to Mendi’s soul. The Chelsea goalkeeper made a catastrophic mistake, and the Real Madrid striker always punishes it.
Only in the 69th minute, we saw a great chance for Lukaku, but he shot inaccurately with his head from six to seven meters and failed to shake the net of Madrid.
At the same time, Villarrel welcomed the great Bayern at home and beat them 1: 0. The only goal scorer was Danjuma in the 8th minute of the game.
After less than ten minutes of the game, Bayern was completely shocked in Spain! The Bavarians are considered to be the right machinery, but this evening they did not have a solution for Villarreal.
The home team gained the advantage at “Madrigal” through Danjuma, which scored for 1: 0, which they managed to preserve until the very end of the match.
That was more or less everything we saw in the first half, but it must be admitted that the German team “woke up” in the continuation. Bayern attacked at “Madrigal”, but in vain, even Moreno from Villarreal hit the post with a violent blow!
A minute later, we saw a big mistake by Manuel Neuer, but Gerard failed to punish that, so the result did not change.
In the very finish, we saw Bayern’s new attempt, Coman shot, but it was an easy job for the Villarreal goalkeeper.
