Real Madrid 3 Atletico Madrid 0: Ronaldo hat-trick points champions towards Cardiff

A moment derby cap trap this season saw Cristiano Ronaldo give Real Madrid a 3-0 prevail upon Atletico in the Champions League semi-last. Cristiano Ronaldo by and by turned out to be the man for the enormous event as his cap trap gave holders Real Madrid an ordering 3-0 advantage in their Champions League semi-last against city rivals Atletico Madrid. The four-time Ballon d'Or champ has apparently spared his best for Europe's chief rivalry this season, scoring five of Madrid's six objectives in their throbbing quarter-last triumph over Bayern Munich, and he headed the opener following 10 minutes at an unruly Santiago Bernabeu.

Madrid's fans revealed an immense pennant commending the 2014 and 2016 last triumphs over their neighbors before commence and Ronaldo guaranteed the blade edge pressure of those additional time and punishment shootout wins would be expelled from this tie. The challenge fell into a recognizably irritable and cagey mood after the interim, yet Madrid's charm mediated to render the last European match at the Vicente Calderon a convention.

Ronaldo rifled a relentless shot into the top corner in the 73rd moment and guaranteed the matchball four minutes from time, which means an inauspicious index of wretchedness in this European apparatus proceeded for Diego Simeone's side. The hosts ought to have driven in the seventh moment. Ideal back Dani Carvajal traded goes with Isco and shot into the crate, compelling a spare from Jan Oblak before Karim Benzema was not able hand over from short proximity. It mattered little as Madrid made short work of Atletico's broadly hopelessness rearguard soon a short time later. Sergio Ramos' underlying cross was cleared by Diego Godin, however Casemiro banged the free ball into the turf and back towards the six-yard box, where Ronaldo stole before Stefan Savic to head home.


Atletico were shaken and required a fine spare from Oblak in the sixteenth moment after Raphael Varane looked Toni Kroos' corner low to the goalkeeper's cleared out. Oblak's inverse number Keylor Navas was out pointedly to impede Kevin Gameiro, with the Atletico forward's endeavor to round him lacking conviction. Madrid kept on making a large portion of the running – Benzema snaring an overhead kick past the crossbar in the 29th moment after Ronaldo tormented Atletico's alternative ideal back Lucas Hernandez to send in the cross. Carvajal cut down Yannick Carrasco at the flip side, giving Antoine Griezmann the chance to flight a brilliant free-kick into the Madrid box that an extending Godin volleyed over. An exceptionally acceptable half for Madrid finished with a few their players in the wars – Casemiro left with a bloodied lip in the wake of guarding a 40th-minute corner before Carvajal limped off with an evident hamstring damage in stoppage time. The second half continued at an undulating pace, with Isco and Saul Niguez winning appointments for cumbersome fouls on Hernandez and Carvajal's substitution Nacho individually, yet both group battled for exactness with the last ball as the event weighed vigorously.

Isco was a touch blessed to get away from a moment booking when he got Koke late – a contention Atletico supervisor Simeone made in vivified design on the touchline – and Zinedine Zidane reacted by sending on Marco Asensio set up of the Spain playmaker. It was a change that wedded itself to growing pressure inside the Bernabeu until Ronaldo willingly volunteered oust the nervousness.
Benzema did well to hold up a Marcelo cross, yet Ronaldo still had bounty to do with a ricocheting ball and Filipe Luis in close participation. He steadied himself to tear a venomous strike past the vulnerable Oblak and leave Atletico gazing at a sharp, restricted brand of European frustration yet again – one made all the more strong when substitute Lucas Vazquez set up Ronaldo for his seventh Champions League treble.