Madrid: Arsenal stole the superstars of the Real Madrid Champions League and the rich story of return to snatch a 2-1 victory on Wednesday and reach the semifinals with an excellent added victory of 5-1.
The triumph of the first stage of the quarterfinals of the Gunners last week gave them a vital cushion in the Spanish capital, since they arrived at the Final Four for the first time since 2009, where they will face Paris Saint-Germain.
Bukayo Saka, who lost a penalty in the first half, sent the arsenal ahead and, although Vinicius Junior level, the 15 times winners were never close to inventing the deficit.
Gabriel Martinelli rubbed salt in his wounds with a winner of the Arsenal detention time, who has never raised the champions League trophy.
“We knew we were going to suffer, but we knew we were going to win,” said Declan Rice, who scored two impressive free throws in the first leg, he said TNT Sports.
“It’s such a special night for this club, it’s a historic night for this club … We want to win this competition.”
The whites, much more fragile than when they won a champions league and twice the league last season, were convinced that they could change the game, but created very little against the narrow defense of the arsenal.
The Premier League team kept the nerve to reach the semifinals for the third time in its history.
“It’s a difficult time … It was a difficult game, we didn’t have all the possibilities that they would have liked us,” said Lucas Vázquez from Madrid to Movistar.
“We needed a little more with the ball, maybe a little more patience to be able to break a very well organized defense, they did their job.”
Kylian Mbappe Cested Home in the opening stages, but was clearly out of play, with the striker gesturing the crowd to raise the volume to create the legendary aura that helps Madrid to achieve almost impossible feats in Santiago Bernabéu.
David Alaba was hired to hack Saka while Madrid tried to add the sand that was missing in his demolition of first leg in London, and the end of Arsenal also had a good boost for Thibaut Courtois.
The Arsenal received a penalty apparently out of nowhere when the VAR stand instructed the French referee Francois Letexier to review an incident of an anterior corner.
Raúl Asencio withdrew the Arsenal Mikel Merino striker in the area and Letexier pointed to the place, to the failure of the local crowd.
Saka Salvada penalty
Saka took a step forward to take it, but his panenka, poorly executed, biased to the left, was saved by Courtois.
He divided Real Madrid and soon had their own penalty, when Mbappe hit the grass after the rice fought with him.
However, after a long review of Var, Letexier was called to take a second glance and then decided that the two goals of two goals from Arsenal, Rice, had not committed a foul to the French superstar.
The breaks at stake, together with Arsenal’s Dallying on each occasion, interrupted the impulse of Madrid and fought to threaten the stops of gunners David Raya.
For all the Bravuvados of Madrid, the goalkeeper did not need to make a salvation in the first half.
Martin Odegaard, facing his former employers who joined as ‘Wonderkid’ a decade ago, helped forge the arsenal opening goal after 65 minutes.
The Norwegian was linked to Merino, who slipped Saka behind and English made peace for his penalty with a Dinked Cool ending.
Arsenal thought his work was done, with defender William Saliba not concentrate on the edge of his box in possession.
Vinicius moved the ball away and hit out of line to level, two minutes after Saka’s first game.
The increasingly thin hopes in Madrid vanished when Mbappe limited with an ankle problem with 15 minutes, and Martinelli secured with a great end after Merino prepared him.
