Brahim Diaz scored a brilliant winner to give Real Madrid a slim benefit compared to City Rivals Atletico after the first stage of their Last-16-Easy Play of Champions League.
Match report
Rodrygo placed the hosts in the Bernabeu within four minutes when he sprinted past Javi Galan and cut in before he bend a beautiful hit past Jan Oblak.
Atletico, however, quickly settled in the game and leveled in the 32nd minute with another wonderful goal.
The in-form Julian Alvarez took the ball on the left side of the box, wrongly Eduardo Camavinga and hit a spectacular curling strike around Thibaut Courtois and in the post.
It was the seventh goal of the Argentinian striker in nine performances in the competition.
But it was Diaz, another former player of Manchester City, who claimed the decisive goal in an electric Madrid -derby.
The Spaniard sent Atletico defender Jose Gimenez to the floor while he skilfully flowed into the box before he rode a low shot in the far corner in the 55th minute.
The 25-year-old midfielder was performed in the absence of Jude Bellingham, where the International of England served a suspension of one game after picking up his third yellow card in the competition against Manchester City earlier this month.
Bellingham will be available for the defending champion when they make the short trop to the Riyadh Air Metropolitano for the return roads on Wednesday 12 March (20:00 GMT).
Line-ups
Real Madrid XI: Courtois, Rudiger, F Mendy, Mbappe, Valverde, Brahim, Tchouameni, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Camavinga, Raúl Asencio
Subs: Modric, Alaba, Vazquez, Lunin, Fran García, Güler, Endrick, Fran González
Atletico XI: Oblak, Griezmann, Lenglet, De Paul, Gimenez, Llorente, Galan, Lino, Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone, Barrios
Subs: Witsel, Lemar, Sørloth, Musso, Correa, Mandava, Le Normand, Molina, Gallagher, Riquelme, Antonio Gomis
Comments