Late Ronaldo penalty puts Real Madrid into Champions League semis
Cristiano Ronaldo came through in the clutch again with a late winner. VI Images via Getty Images
Cristiano Ronaldo scored damage time punishment to book Real Madrid's place in the Champions League elimination rounds in the wake of losing the second leg 3-1, however winning the tie 4-3 on total.
Juventus had wiped out Real Madrid's three-objective preferred standpoint from the main leg with Mario Mandzukic scoring twice before Blaise Matuidi leveled the tie at 3-3 following 60 minutes.
Be that as it may, with the tie heading towards additional time, Madrid were granted a punishment following Mehdi Benatia's test on Lucas Vazquez.
Gianluigi Buffon was demonstrated a red card by Michael Oliver for dissenting the choice, leaving Ronaldo to score his 41st objective of the season from the spot past substitute manager Wojciech Szczesny.
Trailing 3-0, Juventus required a positive begin to get once again into the tie and Mandzukic gave the Bianconeri the ideal begin by heading home Sami Khedira's lobbed cross to the back post with 90 seconds played to make it 1-0 on the night and 3-1 on total.
Gareth Bale verged on reestablishing Madrid's three-objective total lead yet his shot was spared by Buffon and Bale's follow-up back-heel found the side netting.
In a completely open begin to the diversion, Isco had the ball in the back of Juventus' net, however the banner was up for offside as he followed up after Buffon spilled Ronaldo's shot.
Juventus supervisor Massimiliano Allegri was constrained into a substitution after only 17 minutes, supplanting Mattia De Sciglio with Stephan Lichtsteiner.
Juventus were obliged to their 40-year-old goalkeeper who denied Isco with a fine spare after Ronaldo's through-ball made the possibility.
That spare ended up being pivotal as after three minutes Mandzukic scored with another back-post header, this time from Lichtsteiner's cross from the right.
In included time toward the finish of a throbbing first half, Raphael Varane saw his header from six yards out bounce back off the bar in the wake of being selected by Toni Kroos' conveyance from the left.
With thirty minutes to play, Juventus had wiped out Real Madrid's three-objective preferred standpoint. Keylor Navas neglected to gather a cross into the container and Matuidi was in the perfect place at the ideal time to jab the ball home for a far-fetched equalizer.
Genuine Madrid looked for the principal home objective of the tie and Isco constrained Buffon into another great spare as he turned the shot past the post for a corner from which Varane's shot on the turn cruised wide.
Ronaldo, from a comparative position from where Mandzukic scored his second, neglected to discover the objective with five minutes staying in typical time.
The Portugal global assumed a vital part in the conclusion to the diversion, notwithstanding. It was his header that Lucas was going to control when Benatia was decreed to have fouled the Madrid man six yards from objective.
Buffon took his challenges too far and was sent off by the English official before Ronaldo demonstrated extraordinary self-restraint to flame his punishment past Szczesny and send the guarding champions through to the elimination rounds
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