Mourinho’s Real advance with easy win over CSKA

Real Madrid secured their passage to the Champions League quarter-finals with a comfortable win over CSKA Moscow last night.

Seydou Doumbia missed a glorious chance to give the visitors the lead inside 10 minutes as he fired over when clean through, but Real slowly started to take control of the game, and deservedly took the lead, as Gonzalo Higuain slotted home from Kaka’s pull-back.

A howler from Sergei Chepchugov allowed the hosts to double their advantage as he spilled Cristiano Ronaldo’s long-range shot into his own net 10 minutes after half-time, and Karim Benzema slotted home the third at the second attempt with 20 minutes remaining.