Real Madrid, the Spanish record holder in the number of titles (14) and runner-up AC Milan (7), reached the semi-finals of the European Football Champions League competition, after the first renewed its victory over Chelsea, England, 2-0, and the second tied with its compatriot and host Napoli 1-1 on Tuesday. In the second leg of the quarter-finals.

Brazilian striker Rodrigo Goech imposed himself as the star of the Royal Club match by scoring the winning double in the 58th and 80th minutes, while Frenchman Olivier Giroud (43) scored Milan's goal, and Nigerian Victor Osimhen equalized for Napoli (90 + 3).

Real Madrid won the first leg last Wednesday in the Spanish capital, while Milan won 1-0 in the San Siro.

The Royal Club will meet in the semi-finals with Manchester City or Bayern Munich, who will meet on Wednesday at the Allianz Arena in Munich (3-0) back and forth in Manchester, while Milan will play with its compatriot Inter or Benfica, who will meet at the “Gusepe” stadium. Meazza" Wednesday (2-0).

Real Madrid added Chelsea to the list of its English victims this season, after getting rid of Liverpool in the final price, by defeating it in the first leg 5-2 away from home and 1-0 on the return leg.

Real Madrid confirmed its well-deserved qualification and added Chelsea to the list of its English victims this season, after getting rid of Liverpool in the final price.

Real Madrid managed to reach the semi-finals for the eleventh time in the last 13 years, and its Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti commented on this, saying, “This is a wonderful achievement for the team. We played a somewhat difficult match and qualifying was not easy because we played a match against a strong team. We suffered in the first half and improved in In the second half, we achieved what we needed, and we are now in the semi-finals."

He added, "The semi-finals will not be easy, and we will face a strong team, but if we play with this performance and level, we will continue our journey to the final match."

As for the interim coach of Chelsea, Frank Lampard, he said, "At this level of the competition, you have to translate opportunities into goals. We deserved to score, but they scored a goal that ended everything before they added the second. I cannot blame the players for this performance."

The confrontation between the royal and London clubs was a rematch of their confrontation in the semi-finals of the 2020-2021 season when Chelsea emerged victorious (1-1 and 2-0) on their way to the title and the quarter-finals of last season when Real Madrid won the first leg away from home 3-1 and qualified for the semi-finals despite Losing it back home 2-3 after extension on its way to the title.

Chelsea suffered its fourth successive loss under the leadership of its interim coach, Frank Lampard, successor to Graham Potter, who was dismissed from office due to negative results. His negative results continued in his last seven matches in various competitions, and his last victory dates back to March 11, when he defeated his host Leicester City 3-1. in the local league.

Lampard made 4 changes to the squad for the first leg, sending defenders Trevoh Chalobah, Spaniard Marc Cocoria, midfielder Conor Gallagher, German striker Kai Havertz in place of the suspended Ben Chilwell, the injured Senegalese Khalido Coulibaly, Raheem Sterling and Portuguese Joao Felix.

On the other hand, Ancelotti pushed the same squad that played the first leg in Madrid.

Chelsea tried from the start to search for the net of the royal club, but it was unable to shake the net of the Belgian international goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, who shone despite the lack of London opportunities, specifically the chance of Spaniard Marc Cocoria in stoppage time of the first half.

And the royal club struck in the second half by opening the scoring through Rodrigo after a counterattack he led himself from the right side after a pass from the Brazilian Eder Militao, so he started from the middle of the field, breaking offside and dodged the defender Chalobah and penetrated into the area and passed it cross that Karim Benzema failed to follow into the empty goal, but it was prepared in front of Vinicius Who returned it to his compatriot in front of the goal, so he prepared it for himself and shot it inside (58).

Rodrigo strengthened the royal club's lead with a wonderful second goal, after an exchange of the ball between more than one player, until Vinicius passed it to Uruguayan Federico Valverde inside the area, so he manipulated Modric and prepared it for the unattended Rodrigo, so he followed it into the empty goal (80).

In the second, Milan confirmed his contract with Napoli and knocked him out of the quarter-finals when he forced him to a 1-1 draw at Diego Armando Maradona.

Milan opened the scoring through Frenchman Olivier Giroud (43), before Napoli equalized through Nigerian Victor Osimhen (90 + 3) returning from injury.

Both teams missed a penalty kick through Giro for Milan (22) and Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia for Napoli (82).

It is the first time that Milan has reached the semi-finals in 16 years, specifically when it beat Manchester United on its way to the last seventh title in its history, the 2006-2007 season.

This was the third confrontation between the two teams in three weeks. Milan had won the previous two matches 4-0 as a guest in the league, and 1-0 in San Siro in the first leg of the Champions League last week.

The match started with a pressing and fierce attack by Napoli through Kvaratskhelia's incursions, Osimhen's positioning, and Matteo Politano's shots from outside the penalty area.

And the “Rossoneri” thought that luck smiled at him when the match referee awarded him a penalty kick after an intervention from the Portuguese Mario Roy on the Portuguese Rafael Leao, so Giro ran to her, but goalkeeper Alex Merritt was on the lookout for her and blocked his shot (22).

Merritt rose again in the 28th minute, against Giroud, who missed a goal almost alone.

Amidst Napoli's attempts to open the scoring, Frenchman Tanguy Ndombele failed to receive a ball on the outskirts of the Milan penalty area, and it reached Liao, who launched it with a quick counterattack in which he overtook three players before passing it to Giroud, who fired into the open goal, scoring the first goal (43).

Osimhen scored a goal before the end of the first half of the match, but it was canceled due to a handball on the Nigerian (45 + 4).
There was a glimmer of hope for the hosts in the 80th minute, when the referee awarded a penalty kick after a handball on English defender Fikayo Tomori, but French goalkeeper Mike Mignan shone in turn, blocking a "Kafara" shot and denying Napoli a draw.

The hosts scored a late equalizer with a beautiful and powerful header from Osimehn, but it was too late for Napoli to return, and the quarter-final ticket went to Mel.