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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Ajax Stuns Real Madrid, Ending Its Reign in Champions League Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt after his team’s 4-1 victory eliminated Real Madrid from the Champions League. Credit Gabriel Bouys/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Image

Ajax staggered have Real Madrid, 4-1, in the Champions League on Tuesday, killing Madrid on total and closure the three-time safeguarding champion's kept running of predominance in the challenge.

Ajax won the two-legged arrangement on total, 5-3. It required under 20 minutes to turn around a 2-1 shortage from the main leg in Amsterdam, with Hakim Ziyech scoring in the seventh moment and David Neres in the eighteenth.

Dusan Tadic, who set up both first-half objectives, added to the lead in the 62nd, and Lasse Schone fixed the Dutch group's triumph — and its first Champions League quarterfinal appearance since 2003 — with a free kick from a tight point in the 72nd.

Marco Asensio had pulled Real Madrid closer two or three minutes sooner.

It was the fourth straight home misfortune for Madrid, something that had not occurred since 2004, and topped one of the most noticeably awful weeks in the club's ongoing history. It additionally tumbled out of the Copa del Rey and the Liga title race.

The thrashing additionally finished a time of predominance in the Champions League: Madrid had won the last three titles and came to in any event the elimination rounds in eight straight seasons, and it had not neglected to make it past the round of 16 since 2010.

The embarrassing thrashing to Ajax pursued two dispiriting home misfortunes to Barcelona — by 1-0 in the Spanish group and by 3-0 in the elimination rounds of the Copa del Rey

Madrid, in its first season without Cristiano Ronaldo, had not lost a Champions League knockout tie since a 2015 elimination round against Juventus.

In Tuesday's other amusement, have Borussia Dortmund's expectations of a far-fetched rebound were denied by Hugo Lloris and Harry Kane as Tottenham achieved the Champions League quarterfinals with a 1-0 triumph.

Kane's 49th-minute objective, after Lloris had made a progression of exceptional recoveries, empowered Spurs to finish a 4-0 win on total in the wake of verifying an agreeable lead in the primary leg.

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