TOWARDS MILAN-ATLETICO: REAL BEAT ATLETICO

MILAN – The rossoneri’s next opponents in the Champions League, Atletico Madrid, were beaten by Real Madrid in the second leg semi-final of the Coppa del Re last night.Atletico lost the first leg 3-0 at the Bernabeu and were unable to overturn that deficit losing 2-0 at the Vicente Calderon yesterday. Cristiano Ronaldo scored two penalties in the 7th and 16th minute of the first-half.It was a tense match with 4 bookings: 3 Real Madrid players of which one was Cristiano Ronaldo, while Brazilian Miranda was booked for Atletico.Tonight Real Sociedad take on Barcelona in the second leg of the other semi-final. The blaugrana won the first leg 2-0 at the Nou Camp.Ahead of Milan-Atletico, the rossoneri have a league match against Bologna this Friday the 14th of February whereas Atletico play Valladolid on Saturday the 15th of February which is also a league match.