Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is Tuesday just failed to penetrate with Schalke 04 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Bernabeu was in spectacular duel with Real Madrid won 4-3. Three weeks before the next match in Gelsenkirchen, however, had ended in 2-0 for the people of Madrid.
Huntelaar was twice confidently in the match against his former club. He put Schalke after forty minutes to a 2-1 lead and made just before the time 4-3.
When peace was Tuesday in Madrid scored four times, twice by both teams. In the second half Real Madrid first came ahead, but Schalke showed resilience.
Real neglected by the defeat the record for most victories in a row in the Champions League to take over Bayern Munich. It remains at ten victories, the same number as Bayern in 2013.
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Schalke was certainly not inferior in Madrid. After twenty minutes, Christian Fuchs gave his team a deserved lead. Huntelaar had a cross clever run and shot from Fuchs was goalkeeper Iker Casillas too powerful.
Five minutes later it was all right again. Cristiano Ronaldo headed touch off a corner kick, but Schalke refused to be dissuaded. A few minutes Huntelaar put to rest earned his side a 2-1 lead.
A few seconds earlier he met with a beautiful volley still the crossbar, but still in the same attack he was accurate in the rebound after a shot by Max Meyer. Still in the first half Ronaldo made his second goal for 2-2. It was his 75th goal in the Champions League, which he Lionel Messi equaled.
Huntelaar
Early in the second half, the team of coach Carlo Ancelotti for the first time lead by Karim Benzema. Leroy Sané kept Schalke not long after the race by his Champions League debut to score from an acute angle.
Huntelaar put Schalke deep into the second half even lead to a pebble hard shot from underneath the bar. In an exciting final phase, the Germans were still two great chances in the 5-3, but that did not happen.
The Real left under a scathing flute concert field. The loss against Schalke was the second defeat this week after Saturday Athletic Bilbao 1-0 was too strong in the competition
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By: NU.nl
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