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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Yara El-Shaboury

Real Madrid 2-1 Atlético Madrid: Champions League last 16 – as it happened

Brahim Díaz celebrates scoring the second goal for Real Madrid with Kylian Mbappe.
Brahim Díaz celebrates scoring the second goal for Real Madrid with Kylian Mbappe. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters

That is all from me tonight! Thanks for tuning in and join us tomorrow for live coverage of Paris Saint-Germain v Liverpool and our clockwatch which will include Bayern Munich v Bayer Leverkusen and Barcelona v Benfica.

Sid Lowe’s report from the Bernabéu is in.

At some point, they know through bitter experience, Real awaken. There is too much talent there for them not to, for the threat to ever be entirely eliminated, even when the collective is not functioning.

Díaz, Ferland Mendy and Vinícius combined and, in a flash, Díaz was inside the area. Not free, but in a place where fast feet saw him cut away from Giménez and curl into the far corner, the strike a match of the two that had gone before and one that changed the entire feel here, raising the volume.

Read his full verdict here.

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