MADRID, KOMPAS.com - Real Madrid lolos secara dramatis ke semifinal Liga Champions setelah menyisihkan Juventus. Penalti Cristiano Ronaldo pada pengujung laga menentukan langkah sang juara bertahan melewati perempat final.
Pada laga di Stadion Santiago Bernabeu, Rabu (11/4/2018) atau Kamis dini hari WIB, Juventus yang kalah 0-3 pada pertemuan pertama, bisa bangkit dan unggul dengan skor serupa melalui Mario Mandzukic (2, 37') dan Blaise Matuidi (61').
Namun, penalti Cristiano Ronaldo dan kartu merah Gianluigi Buffon pada pengujung laga jadi pembeda. Penalti diberikan setelah Medhi Benatia melanggar Lucas Vazquez pada injury time babak kedua.
Buffon lantas melakukan protes keras kepada wasit Michael Oliver dan berujung kartu merah. Wojciech Szczesny lantas masuk menggantikan Gonzalo Higuain.
Namun, dia tetap tak kuasa menahan tendangan penalti Ronaldo. Real Madrid "cuma" kalah 1-3 sehingga tetap memastikan lolos ke semifinal dengan agregat 4-3.
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Juventus tampil mengejutkan publik tuan rumah pada laga ini. Dalam 45 menit pertama saja, keunggulan agregat Real Madrid terpangkas menjadi 2-3 akibat dua gol Mario Mandzukic.
Gawang tim tuan rumah bahkan bobol saat laga baru berjalan dua menit. Gol perdana Juventus datang dari sundulan Mandzukic yang menyambut umpan silang Sami Khedira.
Mandzukic menjebol gawang Madrid pada menit ke-37, lagi-lagi melalui tandukan. Kali ini, Stephan Lichsteiner yang menjadi kreator gol.
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Pundi-pundi gol Juventus bertambah pada menit ke-61, kali ini lahir dari kaki Matuidi. Eks pilar Paris Saint-Germain itu mencocor bola yang terlepas dari dekapan kiper Keylor Navas dan membuat skor agregat sama kuat 3-3.
Menjelang akhir laga tepatnya menit ke-90, sebuah drama terjadi. Real Madrid mendapat penalti setelah Lucas Vazquez dilanggar Medhi Benatia di dalam area terlarang Juventus.
Definite penalty for Real Madrid? Or way too harsh on Juventus? ???? Ronaldo with the goal to put Real through. Red card for Buffon. Sent off in quite possibly his last Champions League game. Mental. pic.twitter.com/iPZIl5X6vg
KOMPAS.com - Kiper sekaligus kapten Juventus, Gianluigi Buffon, tetap tenang dan dewasa dalam menanggapi kekalahan menyakitkan Juventus pada perempat final Liga Champions oleh Real Madrid di Stadion Santiago Bernabeu pada Rabu (11/4/2018) atau Kamis dini hari WIB.
Juventus yang tertinggal 0-3 secara mengejutkan berhasil membuat skor menjadi sama kuat secara agregat 3-3 sampai 90 menit waktu normal di Bernabeu. Namun, penalti Cristiano Ronaldo pada menit ke-90'+8 menjadi penamat langkah Juventus.
Penalti itu diberikan setelah Lucas Vazquez dilanggar Medhi Benatia pada menit ke-90'+3. Gianluigi Buffon melakukan protes keras yang berujung kartu merah dari wasit Michael Oliver kepadanya.
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"Kami telah memberikan semua kemampuan yang dimiliki. Saya sangat senang dan bangga dengan cara kami bermain dan mampu membuat hal mustahil menjadi mungkin. Sayang sekali, semuanya harus berakhir seperti ini," kata Buffon seperti dikutip BolaSport.com dari UEFA.com.
Juventus sempat unggul 3-0 terlebih dahulu pada laga ini berkat aksi Mario Mandzukic (menit ke-2, 37') dan Blaise Matuidi (60'). Kondisi ini membuat para pemain Juventus semakin bersemangat untuk mencetak gol demi membalikkan kedudukan.
Namun, terjadi tragedi pada pengujung babak kedua. Saat laga telah memasuki masa tambahan waktu, Real Madrid mendapatkan penalti setelah wasit Michael Oliver menganggap bek Juventus, Medhi Benatia, telah melakukan pelanggaran kepada Lucas Vazquez.
Definite penalty for Real Madrid? Or way too harsh on Juventus? ???? Ronaldo with the goal to put Real through. Red card for Buffon. Sent off in quite possibly his last Champions League game. Mental. pic.twitter.com/iPZIl5X6vg
MADRID, KOMPAS.com - Gelandang Real Madrid, Toni Kross, menganggap penalti yang terjadi pada detik-detik terakhir pertandingan kedua babak perempat final Liga Champions antara timnya dan Juventus adalah wajar.
Real Madrid lolos ke semifinal Liga Champions berkat keunggulan agregat 4-3 atas Juventus. Satu gol Cristiano Ronaldo dari titik penalti pada laga kedua perempat final di Stadion Santiago Bernabeu, Rabu (11/4/2018) malam atau Kamis dini hari jadi penantu.
Penalti tersebut terjadi karena pemain Real Madrid, Lucas Vasquez, dilanggar oleh bek Juventus, Medhi Benatia, di dalam kotak penalti. Kubu Juventus melakukan protes, tetapi Toni Kroos menilai putusan Toni Kroos itu benar dan penalti wajar diberikan.
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"Saya pikir itu adalah penalti. Dia (Benatia) datang dari belakang, menyentuh Vasquez dengan tangan diikuti dengan kakinya," kata Toni Kross kepada BT Sport seperti yang dilansir dari BBC Sport seusai pertandingan.
Definite penalty for Real Madrid? Or way too harsh on Juventus? ???? Ronaldo with the goal to put Real through. Red card for Buffon. Sent off in quite possibly his last Champions League game. Mental. pic.twitter.com/iPZIl5X6vg
Real Madrid are in the Champions League semi-finals for the eighth year in a row. That is no surprise but what is a surprise is that for so much of a dramatic, nervous night at the Bernabéu it looked like they might not be.
A round of shocks almost had the biggest of them all, a miracle mighty close, the champions following Barcelona in being knocked out by Italian opposition. In Turin they had been applauded, Cristiano Ronaldo holding his heart in gratitude after his superb goal was handed an ovation; at the Bernabéu there were hands on hearts too, in agony, right to the end. And then Ronaldo appeared once more.
Juventus took Madrid to the cliff edge with a 3-0 lead with two from Mario Mandzukic and one from Blaise Matuidi. Until, into the third minute of added time, Lucas Vázquez went down under a challenge from Medhi Benatia. The referee, Michael Oliver, pointed to the spot. As Juventus’s players surrounded him, seeing hope slip away, screaming injustice, Gigi Buffon was sent off, his last European game ending with him walking from the field, angry and unmoved by the ovation.
And so a place in the semi-finals came down a penalty: the world watching, Ronaldo waiting, the substitute goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny eventually standing before him. One shot. It flew high into the net, Ronaldo raced to the corner flag, throwing his shirt in the air, the stadium erupting, barely able to believe it. Juventus couldn’t, either. The roar was delight and relief.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cristiano Ronaldo displays nerves of steel to drill his added-time penalty into the top corner past the despairing dive of Wojciech Szczesny. Photograph: Denis Doyle - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images
Fear had visited Madrid fans early, a realisation there was a game on, one they had never anticipated, despite the warnings. It never really let go. Douglas Costa played in Sami Khedira, running in on the right, and he clipped the cross to the far post where Mandzukic arrived and headed in the opener. The clock said 1:16: it was the quickest goal Madrid had conceded in this competition and it was just the start. An hour and a half later, this had still not been resolved: a tie that had appeared over a week ago was not yet done.
Less than 30 seconds after the goal, Juventus were back: the celebration high in the north end had barely subsided and the rallying call from the rest of the ground had hardly been raised when Gonzalo Higuaín was there, deep inside the area. He was slow, the shot scuffed and the chance wasted, but the storm had not passed. Mattia De Sciglio delivered two crosses in a minute and then Costa, who tore into them throughout, raced into the area, forcing Keylor Navas to dive at the feet of Higuaín.
All this had happened inside seven minutes and although Gareth Bale forced a save from Buffon two minutes later, Dani Carvajal then bursting through and Isco having one ruled out for offside, the ordeal continued. Carvajal had to clear Mandzukic’s delivery and the resulting corner went through to the Croat, bouncing off his shins and into Navas’s hands from five yards. This was relentless; it was also only 15 minutes in and yet there could have been three or four already.
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Still the chances came at both ends. Higuaín shot over, Toni Kroos was blocked and Isco curled wide. Madrid had wrested some control, a little breathing room. Or so it seemed. A minute after Buffon was out to save from Isco, Juventus got the second. De Sciglio had been forced off but the supply from the right was not cut. Stephan Lichtsteiner this time curled to Mandzukic to head home. At the other end, Raphaël Varane’s header thumped back off the bar on the stroke of half‑time.
As the players departed, so Vázquez and Asensio came out to warm up. “I had to change something,” Zinedine Zidane, the Madrid manager, said. But Juventus continued on the front foot, led by Costa, immediately curling over.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mario Mandzukic heads the opening goal past Keylor Navas to launch Juventus’s remarkable fightback. Photograph: Pixathlon/REX/Shutterstock
Juventus were one goal from extra time and on the hour they got it, when Navas dropped a long, deep and largely inoffensive cross at the feet of Blaise Matuidi, who scrambled it over the line.
Level on aggregate and away goals too, the psychological and tactical advantage was Juve’s. That situation also created doubts, though: they had something to lose now and a decision to make: look for the goal now or later? Madrid, in part, shared that: 20 minutes now, or 30 minutes later? With each passing minute, that question became more pertinent, the balance tilting towards extra time, the margins finer, the tension and the risks greater. If, that is, they could even choose. Max Allegri, Juve’s manager, later implied he preferred the security of 30, but in the end he never got it.
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Ronaldo’s deflected shot squeezed wide, Jesús Vallejo blocked Khedira, Buffon scrambled to save from Isco and Ronaldo shot just wide, then headed over with five minutes left. This was not over yet but there would be less time left than anyone thought. When Vázquez went over in the last minute, the whole match, 180 extraordinary minutes, was reduced to one moment.
Time passed, tension grew, a simple end for a chaotic occasion. “My heart rate went up but I calmed myself because I knew it would be decisive,” Ronaldo said. On a night of nerves, he showed none.
