MADRID.- The current Real Madrid champion will not revalidate his European crown, after a new defeat against the Arsenal (2-1), this Wednesday at Santiago Bernabéu, which joined 3-0 suffered in the first leg of the quarterfinals in London.
The English end Bukayo Saka, who had failed a penalty in the first half, advanced to the ‘gunners’ (65) shortly before the Brazilian Vinicius (67) scored the only goal of the ‘meringues’ in this double duel. The Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli (90+3) marked 2-1 for an Arsenal that will be measured with Paris Saint-Germain for a position in the Munich final.
After a thrilling beginning in which the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé (4) was canceled a goal for a clearing out of play and the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (8) stopped a left -footed shot from Saka, the comeback glimpsed complicated after a Raúl Asencio grab to Mikel Merino inside the area in the 9th minute, which the collegiate did not sanction at the time.
However, notified by the VAR, the referee reviewed the images and observed how the Madrid defense knocked down at the Spanish international wheel, which served as ‘9’ this Wednesday. Saka dared to launch the maximum penalty to Panenka, but Courtois managed to send the ball to corner.
Shortly after, in a hook between Declan Rice and Mbappé in the English area, the referee whistled the maximum penalty without blinking, but the VAR took five minutes to ask the referee to review the play on the monitor, after which the sanction was annulled.
In the second half, a good combination between Rice and the Norwegian Martin Odegaard left the ball to Merino on the front so that the Spanish leaked Saka in depth, who stung the ball above Courtois.
Already with the ticket to semifinals almost insured, Saliba made an error near his own goal. The defense fell asleep and Vinicius snatched the ball to mark with the empty goal and put the matterous on the scoreboard.
But, against one, Gabriel Martinelli beat the Belgian goalkeeper in a hand in hand in which the Brazilian perfectly defined in the final discount.
