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News ID: 38624
Publish Date : 19 April 2017 - 21:07

Real Madrid Outlasts 10-Man Bayern in Extra Time Behind Ronaldo Hat Trick

MADRID (Dispatches) - Cristiano Ronaldo scored the perfect hat-trick – header, left foot, right foot – to create history and become the first player to score 100 goals in the Champions League. But this was far from a perfect match.
Brilliant, chaotic, dramatic, epic even, but also hugely controversial as Real Madrid made it through to the semi-finals of this competition for a record seventh successive season as they strive to reach a third final in four years and become the first club to retain the European Cup in its modern form.
Ronaldo made history but this felt, also, like the kind of game that will be examined in years to come with a disbelieving shake of the head as to why video assistant referees had not been introduced earlier.
There were a string of controversial calls that could have been quickly dealt with on review and the normally urbane Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti was angered.
"In a quarter-final you have to have, I don’t know, a referee with more quality,” he said of Hungarian official Viktor Kassai.
"Or have video because there were too many mistakes. He had a bad match, that’s it… I had never been in favour of VAR technology, but I must admit it’s necessary now.”
He listed three of the mistakes. Two of Ronaldo’s goals were scored from offside positions and, before that, crucially, Arturo Vidal was sent off when he should not have been. Ancelotti did not add a fourth blunder – Bayern’s second goal, which took the tie into extra time, also resulted from an offside position even if it was eventually an own goal.
As Ronaldo left the Bernabéu with the match ball – the 46th time he has scored a hat-trick and, extraordinarily, he did not even play that well and was even whistled by the Real fans at one stage – no player has now scored more goals at this stadium as he took his tally to 213, three ahead of Alfredo Di Stéfano.
Bayern, though, left the Bernabéu with a maelstrom of different feelings that peaked with Vidal’s controversial second-half dismissal.
It means the Germans had players sent off in both legs of this tie, one in which they dominated and probably deserved to go through but for Ronaldo’s incredible interventions – five goals in all – and, in this match, the intervention of Kassai.
On a yellow card Vidal was sent off for a challenge on Marco Asensio when he clearly and cleanly got the ball with the substitute then tumbling over him. Vidal was so distraught and disbelieving that he refused to leave the pitch before being hauled off by Real captain Sergio Ramos.
*****Ronaldo celebrates his third goal of the game and fifth of the quarterfinal tie.