Favourites serve notice in surge to quarters

Zinedine Zidane and Andrei Shevchenko made their intentions known to help lead their sides through to the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday night.

Real Madrid and holders AC Milan were all winners on the night on their own patch – along with Monaco who also sent visiting Lokomotiv Moscow back to Russia empty-handed.

Zidane’s first-half winner was enough for Real to squeeze past Bayern Munich in an evenly-contested clash at the Bernabeu.

Zidane was left unmarked to score the only goal of the night – securing a 2-1 aggregate victory for his side – with a close-range volley 32 minutes in.

The second half produced little in the way of chances and despite dominating possession, the Germans could not muster a goal.

A second-half double from Shevchenko helped defending champions Milan to a 4-1 victory against a spirited Sparta Prague outfit at the San Siro.

After a goalless first leg, Filippo Inzaghi‘s looping header on the stroke of half time looked to have put Milan on the road to victory at the San Siro.

But substitute Tomas Jun put the Czech side ahead on the away goals when he brilliantly converted Rastislav Michalik‘s low cross just shy of the hour.

Milan kept their composure, however, and moved ahead when Shevchenko headed home seven minutes later.

The Ukrainian international grabbed his second 11 minutes from time, before a deflected Gennaro Gattuso effort – the midfielder‘s first Champions League goal - sealed a flattering scoreline.

Dado Prso continued his love affair with the Champions League as Monaco edged out Lokomotiv Moscow on the away goals rule.

With his side trailing 2-1 from the first match in the Russian capital, Croatian international Prso fired his sixth goal of the competition on the hour.

Lokomotiv created little, mainly due to playing all but the opening 22 minutes with 10-men following skipper Dmitri Loskov‘s first-half dismissal.

Tonight‘s victors will join last night‘s winners, Chelsea, Porto, Lyon and Deportivo La Coruna, in the hat for the quarter-final draw to be made on Friday.