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Bergamo (dpa) - Thanks to a goal by Ferland Mendy, Real Madrid has good chances of making it into the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2018.
Mendy scored the decisive 1-0 (0-0) for the Spanish football champions in the 86th minute in the first leg of the first leg at Atalanta Bergamo.
However, Real struggled despite a 70-minute majority against the strong Italians to the success.
Bergamos Remo Freuler saw the red card in the 17th minute because of an emergency brake from Hamburg referee Tobias Stieler.
Real had to replace four regular players in the defenders Sergio Ramos and Dani Carvajal as well as the strikers Eden Hazard and Karim Benzema.
That was clearly evident in the game played by coach Zinedine Zidane's team.
National player Toni Kroos, who played for Madrid for the 308th time and is next to Uli Stielike the German with the most appearances in the royal jersey, also gave little impetus.
The coverage of the Italians with Kroos' DFB teammate Robin Gosens was rarely embarrassed.
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It was only after Mendy's shot that Real rescued and increased the Spaniards' chances of surviving the second leg on March 16 in Madrid for the first time in two years.
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