Real Madrid and Napoli completed the contract of the clubs qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League football competition, after renewing their victory over both Liverpool and Eintracht Frankfurt in the second leg of the final price.
Real Madrid beat Liverpool with an unanswered goal scored by French star Karim Benzema, after sweeping them 5-2 in England during the first leg.
The English club's knot continued against their Spanish counterpart, and failed to avenge the team that knocked them down in last season's final in Paris.
⚽️🔥 Benzema scores and gets injured while celebrating the goal #ChampionsLeague | #ريال_مدريد_ليفربول #UCL | #beINUCL pic.twitter.com/3BimVjjbpN
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Liverpool entered the match at the Santiago Bernabeu Aware that the task is very difficult, after losing hard at home despite a two-goal lead, before conceding for the first time in its history 5 goals at home in European competitions.
Liverpool also fell to Real Madrid in the final of the tournament in 2018, leaving them without any victory over Real Madrid in their last 8 games (7 defeats and a draw).
Liverpool's last win over Real dates back to the two quarter-finals of the 2008-2009 season on aggregate 5-0 (4-0 and 1-0).
In the second match, Napoli achieved a historic achievement after reaching the quarter-finals for the first time in their history, beating Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0, after winning the first leg 2-0.
Nigerian Victor Osimhen was the star of Napoli's victory by scoring two goals, the first came in the second minute of stoppage time of the first half, and the second in the 53rd minute, while Poland's Piotr Zielinski scored the third from the penalty spot in the 64th minute.
Osimhen rises and puts the ball into the deadly corner of the Frankfurt goal at the end of the first half #دوري_أبطال_أوروبا #نابولي_فرانكفورت #beINUCL | #UCL pic.twitter.com/QYEUbLfLUl
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Napoli stressed that what they achieve domestically and their steady march towards winning the Serie A title for the first time since 1990 with an 18-point lead over their nearest pursuers, is not a coincidence, but was accompanied by this first-of-its-kind continental achievement in the Champions League.
The southern club is now waiting to know where the quarter-final draw scheduled for Friday will place it, as it faces the possibility of meeting any of its compatriots Inter and Milan, who also qualified for the quarter-finals, whose draw will be open, which means allowing confrontations between teams from the same country or between teams that were together in the group stage.