#UEFAResults - Real Madrid 3-4 Schalke (Agg 5-4)

Real Madrid have managed to survive and move on to the quarter-final for their fifth successive Champions League despite being beaten four away goals by their Germany opponents Schalke.

The defending champions were hanging on in the final few seconds as Schalke were just one goal away from producing one of the competition's biggest shocks.

Schalke arived at at Bernabeu while trailing 2-0 after the first leg, but they managed to show a great performance and managed to scored first within 20' min. Then later on two headers from Cristiano Ronaldo twice cancelled out Schalke leads, given to them by goals from Christian Fuchs and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Karim Benzema gave the hosts the advantage on the night after the break but efforts from Leroy Sane and Huntelaar saw Schalke move just one goal away from qualification but it wasnt enough to take them to the quarter-final.


 "We played a great game. We were very brave and were not overawed by a world-class team like Real Madrid. Congratulations to my team, we deserved more today." said Schalke captain Benedikt Howedes

Although Real Madrid qualifies to the quarter-finals, but Schalke managed to  give Real Madrid a huge scare at Bernabeu

Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar said  "Of course we are happy about our game today, but we could have achieved more. We conceded too easily and we should have taken our lead into the break. They didn't feel comfortable at all."