Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea Match Stats And Highlights As Spanish Giants Prevail 5-4 On Agg In UCL Epic

Real Madrid knocked Chelsea out of the Champions League in an epic quarter-final. Watch highlights and review match stats here.
Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea Match Stats And Highlights As Spanish Giants Prevail 5-4 On Agg In UCL Epic
Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea Match Stats And Highlights As Spanish Giants Prevail 5-4 On Agg In UCL Epic /

Real Madrid dethroned Chelsea by knocking last season's Champions League winners out of the tournament in an epic quarter-final.

Chelsea went into Tuesday's second leg in Madrid needing to come up with something special after losing the first match 3-1 at home.

They delivered something special too but ultimately it was not enough.

Karim Benzema celebrates scoring for Real Madrid in extra time to knock Chelsea out of the Champions League in April 2022
Karim Benzema scored four goals over two legs to help Real Madrid knock Chelsea out of the Champions League :: IMAGO/Pressinphoto/Ruben Albarran

Mason Mount finished brilliantly to score Chelsea's first ever goal at the Bernabeu, before Antonio Rudiger headed home early in the second half to make it 3-3 on aggregate.

Real were rattled. They couldn't handle Chelsea. And they would have been 3-0 down on the night in the 62nd minute had Marcos Alonso not handled the ball before smashing it into the top corner of the net.

Chelsea kept going and did make it 3-0 just 13 minutes later thanks to a brilliant piece of play by Timo Werner, who left three defenders on the floor in the process of scoring his third goal in four days.

Thomas Tuchel's men had climbed Everest, but a late avalanche was lurking around the corner.

Substitute Rodrygo came off the bench to level the contest on aggregate. His goal was all about the assist from Luka Modric.

To extra time it went.

Karim Benzema had been the hat-trick hero six days earlier at Stamford Bridge, where he put on a heading masterclass

And it was Benzema's head that had the final say in Madrid too as he stooped to powerfully nod a Vinicius Junior cross past Thibaut Courtois in the sixth minute of extra time.

Chelsea had multiple chances to force a penalty shootout, but it was Real who went through to play Manchester City or Atletico in the semi-finals.

Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea Highlights

Match Stats

Real Madrid

Chelsea

17

Fouls

20

4

Yellow cards

4

0

Red cards

0

0

Offsides

1

1

Corners

10

10

Shots

28

4

Shots on target

7

44%

Possession

56%


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ROBERT SUMMERSCALES

Robert Summerscales launched FanNation Futbol in February 2022. Rob is a British journalist who previously spent two years on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London, having earlier served as editor of CaughtOffside.com. He has been to the last two FIFA Men's World Cups, in Russia and Qatar, and is looking forward to completing his hat-trick in North America in 2026.