Thursday, April 7, 2022 – 1:03 am
DUBAI, 6th April / WAM / The Spanish team Real Madrid won a big victory over its host Chelsea, the defending champion, 3-1 in the meeting that brought them together this evening, “Wednesday” at Stamford Bridge, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. .
Real Madrid owes this victory to its French top scorer Karim Benzema, who scored his team’s hat-trick, becoming the first French player to score 10 or more goals in a single edition of the Champions League in history, while Chelsea’s only goal was Kai Havertz.
The two teams are scheduled to meet in the return leg at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.
In the same role, the Spanish club Villarreal defeated its guest Bayern Munich with a single goal, scored by Arnot Groenefeld, in the meeting that brought them together at the La Ceramica stadium.
The two teams are scheduled to meet in the second leg next Tuesday also at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
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