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1st Half
We are a few minutes into this one and Real Madrid are dominating like you would expect at home. Will Salzburg have the defensive solidity to cope with their attack?
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20’ It’s Diogo Jota with the goal. Vey simple play but effective and Real get the relatively early goal to give them confidence.
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24’ That didn’t take long! There hasn’t been time to report anything else, Salzburg had the ball for a few minutes in the final third but couldn’t find a way through. The ball was the given away and Madrid showed them how it is done, Marco Asensio smashes one from just outside the area. Stunning!
As we work our way towards half time Salzburg look to have stepped things up a little. Marcel Schmid is barking instructions to his team on the side-lines, he doesn’t look very happy right now.
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40’ There it is the away goal Salzburg need. It’s the two main men for the Austrians, Junuzovic and Szoboszlai combine before the latter dribbles past the final Real Madrid defender and tucks it in. What a fantastic goal from the visitors.
HT
The last ten minutes of that half Salzburg came into it, Zidane may need to tweak something before the 2nd half.
2nd Half
Well this half really hasn’t come to life; I’m sure Salzburg would love it to stay like this and Real Madrid aren’t doing a lot to threaten.
We are an hour in now and the fans are getting restless, that is promptly followed by 2 subs for Madrid. Bale and Odriozola come on for the goalscorer Asensio and Militão.
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67’ MODRIC! The substitutes perked Madrid up and it’s the veteran Luka Modric who gets the goal to make it 3-1. Patient play again by Madrid and they just work an opening and Modric was in the box waiting to tap it in.
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73’ Benzema with his 4th of the campaign makes it 4 and Salzburg are now clinging on for dear life in this one. Predatory instincts from the Frenchman who waited for the Salzburg defence to switch off from marking him and one touch and in. Real know what they are doing from this position.
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77’ Well this is interesting. Kilian Ludewig from the bench gets on the score sheet with what could be a vital goal in this tie. Schmid is telling his players to get forward he wants another! He took the chance from quite a distance and Courtois didn’t know if another attacker may get a touch so just stood still…
The clock is ticking down and finally the Salzburg players look to just pass the ball around. The ref looks at his watch and let’s play carry on…
We are about 2 minutes over time now and finally he blows up.
FT Real Madrid 4-2 Red Bull Salzburg
Marcel Schmid – It’s a fantastic result in the end for us, we can always really on Kilian (Ludewig) to come off the bench and make an impact and he did exactly that. I think we struggled with their pace on the counter, I was looking for us to get into the tackle, but we dropped off a bit too much, but we have to be happy. When they made it 4, I thought we were going to find it hard to do anything in the last 20 but we actually got better.
We always believe in ourselves and our home form is very good so we will go out and have nothing to lose. We are very glad to still be in with a shout and that’s credit to the players who just don’t give up.
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