Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid triumphed at the Bernabeu in a hard-fought, scrappy contest.
Simeone brought Diego Costa back into the Atletico side and turned to a three-man central midfield, with Falcao upfront alone.
Jose Mourinho used Mesut Ozil out on the right flank and Luka Modric in a three-man midfield, while Karim Benzema got the nod...
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Real Madrid created enough chances to get back in the tie, but Dortmund progress to the final.
Jose Mourinho left out Sami Khedira to field a very technical midfield trio, while Angel Di Maria and Michael Essien returned, and Sergio Ramos was back in the centre of defence.
Jurgen Klopp unsurprisingly named an unchanged starting XI...
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Robert Lewandowski scored all four goals as Dortmund thrashed Real Madrid.
Jurgen Klopp used right-winger Jakub Blaszczykowski rather than left-winger Kevin Grosskreutz, so Marco Reus started from the left.
Jose Mourinho decided to play Luka Modric, with Angel Di Maria on the bench. The birth of Di Maria’s baby girl was supposedly a factor, but considering...
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Dortmund have already defeated Real Madrid in this season’s Champions League – the problem is that Jose Mourinho so often learns lessons from these setbacks, and doesn’t make the same mistake twice.
Most obviously, there was Inter’s 2-0 defeat to Barcelona in 2010, when Mourinho’s side were thoroughly outplayed but had the last laugh in...
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s early strike left Galatasaray needing five – and they created enough chances to give Real a fright.
Without Burak Yilmaz, Fatih Terim brought in Umut Bulut and stuck to his diamond system, rather than switching to a 4-4-1-1, as rumoured.
Jose Mourinho was without Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos – he named the expected...
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