Sergio Ramos headed an equaliser and created an own goal to set Real
Madrid on the way to a 3-1 win at Napoli on Tuesday which took the
title-holders into the Champions League quarter-finals after they had
taken a first-half battering.
The Serie A side, trailing 3-1 from the first leg of the round of 16
tie, looked more than capable of overturning the deficit as they
dominated the first half and took the lead through Dries Mertens in the
24th minute.
But Napoli’s hopes of a first quarter-final appearance effectively
ended when defender Ramos, who has made a habit of rescuing his team,
headed in from a corner in the 51st minute.
He repeated the trick six minutes later, although the ball took a
deflection off Mertens and was given by UEFA as an own goal to the
Belgian.
Alvaro Morata added another goal for Real in stoppage time to
complete a 6-2 aggregate win which sent the Spanish side through to
their seventh successive Champions League quarter-final.
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