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1¹ SILVA hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 8¹ BALE made space on the left and knocked the ball to CAVANI who clipped the ball wide. 14¹ BALE brought the ball away from SILVA and stabbed a poor shot over. 16¹ RONALDO touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 18¹ A free-kick from DE BRUYNE raced over. 18¹ A mix up in the Real Madrid defence enabled KROOS to fire an effort over the bar. 19¹ GOAL!! A shot from FABREGAS dribbled through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted Newcastle United 'keeper. (1-0 Real Madrid) 21¹ The bemused Real Madrid 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from PIQUÉ fell just wide. 21¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in DE BRUYNE driving a low shot wide. 27¹ The 'keeper was able to palm clear a weak shot from FABREGAS. 30¹ DE ROSSI worked the ball to SILVA, CHIELLINI gathered his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the Newcastle United 'keeper. 31¹ A header by MASCHERANO at the far post was easily collected by HANDANOVIC. 38¹ MESSI rifled an easy chance past the righthand post. 4² GOAL!! A shot from FABREGAS was kicked off the line only for MESSI to tuck the ball in. (2-0 Real Madrid) 17² BALE's header was well saved by the 'keeper. 22² MESSI's shot was well held by HANDANOVIC. 23² CHIELLINI nutmegged WIJNALDUM but tapped the ball into the arms of the Newcastle United 'keeper. 30² KROOS ran onto a delightful ball from BALE but blasted his shot wide of the righthand post. 33² KROOS rushed an easy chance. 33² A tame shot from RONALDO trickled agonisingly wide. 35² MESSI whacked a right foot shot just beyond the near post from thirty yards out. 36² A shot from MITROVIC was smothered by CASILLAS. 38² The Newcastle United 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate shot from Real Madrid's RONALDO.

Real Madrid   League position: 1 Home league form: WWXW Overall league form: WWWXXWWW Formation: 4-1-3-2

Line-ups Iker CASILLAS 7  1 7½ Samir HANDANOVIC (c)SERGIO RAMOS García 8  2 7  Jérôme BOATENG Gerard PIQUÉ 6½ 3 7  David ALABA Javier MASCHERANO 7  4 7  Toni KROOS Giorgio CHIELLINI 7½ 5 7½ THIAGO Emiliano SILVA(c) Daniele DE ROSSI 7  6 7  Diego GODÍN David SILVA 7  7 6½ Kevin DE BRUYNE Luka MODRIC 6  8 6½ Gareth BALE Cristiano RONALDO 7  9 6½ Aleksandar MITROVIC(p) (p,f)Lionel MESSI 6  10 6  Georginio WIJNALDUM(f) Francesc FABREGAS 6½ 11 6½ Edinson CAVANI Joshua Cook Manager Vincent KOMPANY    12    Alexis SÁNCHEZ Leonardo BONUCCI    13    Thibaut COURTOIS SANTI CAZORLA 6  14    AYOZE Pérez Mesut ÖZIL 6  15    Mario GÖTZE Gonzalo HIGUAÍN    16    Pablo ZABALETA

Newcastle United   League position: 2 Away league form: XXXL Overall league form: WWXWXXXL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Real Madrid 2 Newcastle United 0 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 79,976, Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu, Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti 7½) Fabregas 19¹, Messi 4² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   ModricóSanti Cazorla 30², SilvaóÖzil 30²           4 6 20 15 8 0 9 2 4 8 13 10 7 2 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Sergio Ramos García ¶