He real Madrid will face RB Leipzig in the Champions League round of 16 tie this season. A crossing in which the whites they start as favorites but against a rival with whom they cannot trust. They will play the return as local. This is how they have fared in their last 10 years in this first round of the KO of the top European club competition:
If Manchester had been the closest, Schalke's was the clearest for Ancelotti's team this time. In the first leg, the orange team crushed the Germans, with doubles from Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale (1-6). In the second leg, the one who scored in addition to the Portuguese was Morata (3-1). The bad news for the Spanish team was Jesé's serious injury. An injury that changed his promising career
A year later, Real Madrid had to repeat their opponent. Also with Ancelotti as coach, the team was going through a streak of results with injuries to James and Modric. In the first leg they won 0-2 thanks to goals from Cristiano and Marcelo. However, in a horrible match in the second leg Huntelaar and Sané did a lot of damage to the whites. In the end they finished 3-4 and calling time, but they barely qualified
It was Zidane's first Champions League game as Real Madrid coach. A Zidane who would link three titles in a row starting from that tie. The whites won both games with ease. 0-2 in Rome with good goals from Cristiano and Jesé and 2-0 in the second leg, with another from Cristiano and one from James. The Bernabéu match was the farewell to the Champions League for an absolute legend like Totti.
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Zidane repeated his Italian opponent with his boys a year later. This time with the return away, since like years ago Borussia had finished first in the group. In the first leg the whites came back from a goal by Insigne thanks to Benzema, Kroos and Casemiro (3-1). In the second leg, a goal from Mertens brought excitement to the tie, but Sergio Ramos with a double header sealed it. Morata closed the scoring at the end (1-3)
For the second time in a row, Real Madrid could not finish as leaders in the group stage. That time it was Tottenham who relegated him to second place. In the round of 16, the fearsome PSG was waiting, which that year had been reinforced with Neymar and Mbappé. However, the whites finished off a tied game in the first leg (3-1), thanks as always to Cristiano. In the second leg, a childish expulsion from Verratti paved the way for them and they also won in France (1-2).
One of Real Madrid's worst ties in its history in Europe. The team led by Solari had finished first in the group despite the heavy defeat against CSKA on the last day (0-3). In front of him he had the great Ajax of Ten Hag, with De Jong, De Ligt Ziyech, Van de Beek and company. Goals from Benzema and Asensio in Amsterdam left the tie on track (1-2), but in the second leg Ajax ate Madrid. They won 1-4 with a collective exhibition of football. After 3 days Solari gave way to Zidane on the white bench.
This same 2020, last season's playoffs were played. Real Madrid had qualified second in the group after PSG. He got a great one like Guardiola's City. In the first leg Isco put Zizou's team ahead, but Gabriel Jesús and De Bruyne, with a penalty, came back. Sergio Ramos was sent off. We had to wait until August, because of COVID, for the second leg to be played. The skyblues won again, with two rude mistakes by Varane (2-1). Sterling and Gabriel Jesús scored again.
After a controversial first leg in which the Madridistas won in extremis after the expulsion of Remo Freuler, the whites sealed the second leg in the first half. In that match at the Bernabéu, Benzema, Ramos and Asensio scored.
The meringues were very inferior throughout much of the tie, and Courtois saved them from receiving a bag of goals in the first leg in Paris. In the second leg they came back from a goal by Kylian Mbappé with a superb Karim Benzema who managed to lift the Santiago Bernabéu.
The meringues received two early goals at Anfield, and even so Liverpool was not able to be in the tie at practically any time, as the white team had already managed to tie before the break, and in the second half they scored three more goals ( 2-5). The return was a mere procedure.
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