Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 40th goal of the season as Real Madrid achieved the Champions League quarter-finals with a 4-0 total triumph over Roma.
Driving 2-0 from the principal leg, Real peppered the guests’ objective, despite the fact that Edin Dzeko and Mohamed Salah squandered chances for Roma at the Bernabeu.
It demonstrated immoderate as Ronaldo slammed in at the close post before setting up James Rodriguez for a calculated completion.
Roma hit the post yet Real made the last eight for a 6th progressive term.
With Zinedine Zidane’s group, 12 points behind La Liga pioneers Barcelona, and precluded from the Copa Del Rey, winning the Champions League remains their just sensible shot of flatware.
Furthermore, despite the fact that the 10-times champs awed in the assault, their easygoing way to deal with safeguard, especially from left-back Marcelo, will give more powerful groups trust.
Roma will now come back to Serie A, where they lie third, subsequent to winning their last seven progressive group diversions.
Oddly for an amusement where Real wracked up 37 shots, Roma had the better open doors and could have changed the temperament inside the Bernabeu if Salah and Dzeko were more clinical.
Ronaldo missed an awesome opportunity to twofold his lead, yet having been out of support with Real fans after his apparently basic remarks about buddies taking after the 1-0 by Atletico Madrid on 27 February, he demonstrated his quality at the end of the day.
At an opportune time, Real’s driving scorer had all the earmarks of being making a decent attempt to win supporters over, every so often liable of showboating as opposed to taking the risk to shoot.
When he stung the hands of Roma goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny either side of half-time, he, at last, opened the scoring when he indicated incredible reckoning to cut over Roma’s Kostas Manolas and jab in substitute Lucas Vazquez’s short proximity cross.
As it seemed to be, Real led the pack when Vasquez made advances on supplanting Bale and set up Ronaldo with his first touch.
In any case, it was a better than average work out for the previous Tottenham player, who could yet have an advising effect as the season finds some conclusion and will intend to star for Wales at the European Championship in June.
At the point when Salah played at previous group Basel, his chief Murat Yakin said the winger could be world class if no one but he could wrap up.
Shockingly, that demonstrated an exact evaluation of the Egyptian, who had a brief period at Chelsea in 2014, amid which he was advanced to Fiorentina.
The 23-year-old brought about a lot of issues for Real with his pace on the conservative and set up Dzeko for an extraordinary early risk.
Be that as it may, the wickedness appeared by both was further underlined with another miss by Salah after the break, and after 18 minutes Real were 2-0 ahead.
Diego Perotti’s shot against the post, two minutes from time, would just have been a relief.
Luciano Spalletti, Roma coach: “We are weak and at the first sign of difficulty we cannot be the team that we need to be. It is not as if Real Madrid are going through a great period of form and at the moment they are not irresistible.
“When I come back into the dressing room after the final whistle and see the players satisfied because they will get compliments for the performance, this creates a disappointment and pain in me that I cannot reconcile.
“When you go into the dressing room after a 2-0 defeat, you need to be angry and realise the chances you have thrown away over these two games.”
