Approaching the upcoming UEFA Champions League quarter-final match, where "Napoli" and Madrid's "Real" will clash, you can find some really interesting facts. Please note that in the first leg matches in the Spanish capital, the "royal" club triumphed with a 3-1 victory. *** Previously, teams that have lost the first knockout game by this result are 11. Only four moved on to the next stage, but this happened the last three times in a row. *** Interestingly, "Real" advanced to the next stage the last eight times when they won the first leg. *** Meanwhile, "Napoli" the last four times they suffered defeat in the first leg, bid farewell to the strongest European tournament. *** Karim Benzema scored in the last four Champions League encounters, scoring five goals. However, he has not yet managed to score five times in a row in this tournament. *** Out of the last nine accurate shots for "Napoli" in the Champions League, Dries Mertens (4) performed four of them or scored after two of his successful passes. *** Cristiano Ronaldo has not scored a goal in the last five strongest European tournament matches - his drought continues for 523 minutes. Since he first scored in the Champions League, the Portuguese forward has only left the field without a goal in consecutive games once in 2008.
