Real Madrid vs PSG LIVE: Champions League result and final score after Karim Benzema hat-trick
Relive all the action as two of Europe’s footballing heavyweights met in an epic encounter
Karim Benzema’s sensational second-half treble sent Real Madrid through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the expense of Paris St Germain.
The 2020 runners-up looked set for a place in the last eight at half-time with Kylian Mbappe on target again having scored the only goal at Parc des Princes last month.
Fellow Frenchman Benzema stole the show though with a hat-trick after the break and his final two goals were separated by just 106 seconds in a 3-1 win that left Mauricio Pochettino’s men stunned with the pressure now ramped up on the former Tottenham boss.
Relive all the action from the Bernabeu:
Real Madrid vs PSG
Twenty-six of Lionel Messi’s Barcelona goals came in his 45 meetings against Madrid. No player has scored more in the Clásico.
He scored twice in Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Madrid in the 2010/11 Champions League semi-final first leg, setting up a 3-1 aggregate victory.
Real Madrid vs PSG
Lionel Messi scored 672 goals in 778 games for Barcelona before joining Paris last summer, winning the Champions League in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015, three UEFA Super Cups and three FIFA Club World Cups.
He also collected ten Liga titles and won the Copa del Rey seven times. He returns to Madrid tonight.
Real Madrid vs PSG
Paris have lost three of their five away games against Madrid, their one victory came in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final first leg in March 1994 when George Weah scored the only goal at the Bernabéu in a tie Paris won 2-1 on aggregate.
Paris’s first-leg win in this tie was only their second success in their last eight games against Madrid.
Real Madrid vs PSG
This is the second meeting between these two teams in the Champions League round of 1.
In that previous tie Real Madrid won 3-1 in Spain in 2017/18 with Marcelo on the scoresheet after Cristiano Ronaldo’s double, and 2-1 in Paris, Ronaldo again and Casemiro finding the net for Madrid on that occasion.
Real Madrid vs PSG
Thomas Tuchel’s Paris Saint-Germain got the better of a Real Madrid side coached by Zinédine Zidane in the 2019/20 Champions League group stage, picking up four points from their two games.
Goals from former Madrid midfielder Ángel Di María x2 and Thomas Meunier secured a 3-0 home win at the Parc des Princes in the first game before Kylian Mbappé and Pablo Sarabia rescued a point for Paris at the Santiago Bernabéu in the second game after Karim Benzema had scored twice for the Spanish side.
Each of the teams now has four wins across their 11 meetings and Paris’s success in the first leg of this tie stretched their unbeaten run against Madrid to three matches. The French side have also outscored their opponents, hitting 15 goals to Madrid’s 13.
Real Madrid vs PSG
Can Mauricio Pochettino deliver PSG their first ever Champions League title? He is the man tasked with doing so but will need to first get was Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu tonight. Before the game he spoke a little of his plans on how to do that saying:
The challenge is to maintain our advantage from the first leg. We have a lot of respect for Real Madrid. A club that wins 13 Champions League titles; that does not happen by accident. But we are not scared. We will try to play our own game."
Real Madrid vs PSG: Kylian Mbappe contract: PSG deny making €200m offer to France star
Paris Saint-Germain have denied offering Kylian Mbappe a contract extension worth €200m (£166m).
The Independent reported exclusively last month that PSG had offered to make the Frenchman the world’s highest-paid footballer in a bid to secure his long-term future at the club.
Mbappe’s existing deal expires this summer, and the 23-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid. It had been widely rumoured that Mbappe would favour a switch to the Spanish capital.
PSG deny making €200m contract offer to Kylian Mbappe
Mbappe’s contract at Paris Saint-Germain is due to end this summer
Real Madrid vs PSG: Team changes
Carlo Ancelotti makes four changes to the Real Madrid team that swept Real Sociedad aside last time out. Nacho, Toni Kroos, Federico Valverde and Marco Asensio all come into the starting line-up with Ferland Mendy, Casemiro, Eduardo Camavinga and Rodrygo dropping out.
Neymar, Lionel Messi, Marco Verratti and Marquinhos are the only players that remain in the team that lost to Nice at the weekend. PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino would have had an eye on starting a strong team this evening and gave a few of his more experienced players the game off. Kylian Mbappe starts for Paris.
Real Madrid vs PSG: Line-ups
Real Madrid XI: Courtois, Carvajal, Eder Militao, Alaba, Nacho, Modric, Kroos, Valverde, Asensio, Benzema, Vinicius Junior
PSG XI: Donnarumma, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Nuno Mendes, Danilo, Verratti, Paredes, Neymar, Messi, Mbappe
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How did they get here?
This season PSG were forced to settle for second place behind 2020/21 runners-up Manchester City in Group A, while Real Madrid held off Inter Milan to claim first place in Group D.
After the round of 16 draw had to be redone due to a fault with the system the first time around, these two European giants came out against each other.
Madrid eliminated Paris at this stage of the 2017/18 Champions League en route to winning the competition for the third year running, although the French club had come out on top in the two previous knockout ties between the clubs.
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