Roma fell against Real Madrid despite Robin Olsen's big game

Barcelona was ready for the eighth after four innings. Tuesday night, seven other teams battled after the New Year: Bayern Munich, Ajax, Real Madrid, Roma, Manchester City, Juventus and Manchester United.

The Rome-Real Madrid meeting did not have the courage to assume. Both teams were already ready to advance before the kickoff as Czech Viktoria Plzen beat CSKA Moscow 2-1 earlier in the evening.

After a first period during which Roma had the best ideas and the best goals scored, Real immediately paid in the second half. Gareth Bale raised their score by one hour to 47 minutes and Lucas Vazquez increased to 2-0 12 minutes later.

Robin Olsen was without luck on both objectives. The first took place after a very resistant defense missile in which Federico Fazio acquiesced, but directly into the breach of Bale behind the back line. At 2-0, Alessandro Florenzi was safe when Karim Benzema nodded to the Vazquez.

Real Madrid then resumed the tactics and imposed swift changes on the Roman defenders and Robin Olsen – a major win for Real, who suffered a heavy fall in the Liga. The team is composed of six players.

It was a major drama in Manchester where United made an extraordinary breakthrough, as Fellaini scored the last goal in the only goal of the match against Swiss Young Boys.

Even more dramatic Lyon were part of the squad but gave Manchester City two goals and the match ended 2-2.

At the same time, Shakhtar Donetsk decided, besides Hoffenheim, to win 3-2. A goal of Taison, which means that Ukrainians suddenly have a golden chance of reaching the eighth final. Shakhtar face Lyon at home in the last round and by victory, the French are turning to eighth place.

The meeting between AEK Athens and Ajax was preceded by scenes of scandal.

According to several media, a bomb of gasoline would have been launched on the fans of the visitors. Eleven people with attachment to Ajax were reportedly injured in the noise.

It was just before the shot of sending as he rushed to the Olympic Stadium in Athens The turmoil of support forced the police to take steps to calm the atmosphere of the stands.

On the field, Ajax impressed and imposed 2-0, the fifth consecutive game of the team without any defeat in the tournament. The team is thus guaranteed to advance to the eighth final for the first time since 2006.