Real Madrid reached the semifinals of the Champions League with a 3-0 victory over Wolfsburg in the Bernabeu on Tuesday, overturning a 2-0 deficit from the first leg with a complete team performance. Zinedine Zidane fielded the same XI that emerged victorious in Barcelona a week earlier and the home side went about the task with urgency from the first whistle, enjoying 73 percent of possession in the opening 10 minutes of the contest.
Real required a slice of luck to see off the Bundesliga side, and they got it. The visitors' most incisive player, Julian Draxler, was forced off injured a half hour into the game, forcing Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking into a tactical reshuffle.