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Full time: FC Basel 1-1 FC Porto

Full time: Schalke 0-2 Real Madrid

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Full time in both of our Champions League knock-out matches tonight. Real Madrid will take a two-goal lead to the Bernabeu after dispatching a spirited Schalke with their 10<sup>th straight European win. Meanwhile, Porto have the upper hand in their tie after they drew 1-1 with Basel, with Danilo's penalty enough or the Portuguese giants.

Well that is all we've got time for on our Champions League coverage for this week but we're back tomorrow will all the news from the Europa League. Until then, goodbye.

Full time: FC Basel 1-1 FC Porto

Full time: Schalke 0-2 Real Madrid

Into the final five minutes in both matches and how about a late goal? Real look able to score at will while in Switzerland, it is all Porto still as they chase a second away goal. That would put one foot in the quarter-finals.

Goal: FC Basel 1-1 FC Porto (Danilo)

Controversy in Switzerland as Porto are awarded a penalty after Samuel is adjudged to have intentionally handled a cross while sliding on the pitch. It looks very harsh from Mark Clattenburg but Porto are unperturbed and Danilo steps up and slots into the corner. A deserved equaliser it must be said.

Goal: Schalke 0-2 Real Madrid (Marcelo)

Real get there second but from an unlikely source as Marcelo collects Ronaldo's pass in the box and smashes the ball into the top corner with a breath-taking strike. Fine goal.

Penalty for FC Porto

Javier Hernandez on and Karim Benzema off for Real Madrid for the final 12 minutes. You fancy the Spanish giants will want at least a two-goal lead to take to the Bernabeu.

What a chance for Schalke? The Real bar shaken as Platte rifles in a shot from 20 yards which clatters the woodwork and from the rebound Uchida can't convert as Casillas comes to the rescue.

Real should really have doubled their lead. Isco blazes over from 17 yards and the presure continues to mount. Now a free-kick for the holders around 25 yards out but the wall keeps out Ronaldo's effort.

I know I said at the top football really needs football tonight, well it's not exactly been a vintage display from our sport in our two games tonight. Both sides who lead look comfortable with their lead and though Porto are threatening occasionally, Jackson Martinez putting the latest chance onto the roof of the net, our four teams aren't showing too much ambition. Typically low key first legs so far.

Drama in Switzerland. Porto think they have grabbed a critical away goal through Casemiro after some horrible positioning and handling from the goalkeeper Vaclik, but Mark Clattenburg and his assistants have chalked the goal off for offside. The corner from the right is headed goalwards, and such was Vaclik' awkward position he was actually being impeded ans the goal does not stand. That decision coming via those odd officials behind the goal.

Porto get us back under way against Basel around two minutes behind the other game in Germany. Nothing of note to report in the early minutes.

Under way in Germany for the second half. We await the beginning of the second period at St-Jakob Park.

Not a classic night of Champions league football but at least we have goals. One each in Switzerland and Germany where Derlis Gonzalez has Basel ahead against Porto and Cristiano Ronaldo's first goal in three games has broken the deadlock for Real Madrid at Schalke. Little else to report it might be said.

Half time: FC Basel 1-0 FC Porto

Half time: Schalke 0-1 Real Madrid

Porto in control even if they are behind in Switzerland, but genuine chances are few and far between. Vaclik gets down to save from Brahimi's sliced effort on goal in a rare opening for the Portuguese champions.

Fine run from Gareth Bale, slicing through three players before crossing towards the near post for Ronaldo but the ball goes behind for a goal kick. Schalke not been able to recapture their form from the opening minutes, since the goal.

Kevin-Prince Boateng out of the second leg at the Bernabeu after a foul on Ronaldo earns him a yellow card. From the set-piece, Weddenruether makes a fine diving save.

Problems for Schalke. They go a goal down and seven minutes afterwards they lose their main striker Klass Jan Huntelaar to injury. Problems for the hosts.

Goal: Schalke 04 0-1 Real Madrid (Cristiano Ronaldo)

Schalke's impressive opening 25 minutes work undone in a moment and Ronaldo ends his three game drought with an easy header. Carvajal crosses left footed and Ronaldo strolles in unmarked and heads into an almost unguarded net.

Goalscorer Gonzalez, who collided with Fabiano after scoring the opening goal and suffered a head injury, has had to go off in Switzerland is replaced by Davide Calla after just 25 minutes. In Germany, we see the first save of the night as Casillas denies Huntelaar from range with a fine diving stop.

First real effort on goal in Germany and it comes the way of Schalke. After some nifty footwork from Choupo-Moting and the ball finds its way to Aogo, but he blazes over with a left-foot drive. Better chance than he made it look.

Schalke will definitely be the happier of the two sides after the first quarter of an hour at the Veltins-Arena, holding off the European champions and possessing a threat of their own. A good night to have poacher-extraordinaire Klass Jan Huntelaar in your team. Game made for an instinctive finish from the Dutchman but as yet a chance is yet to fall his way.

Goal: FC Basel 1-0 FC Porto (Derlis Gonzalez)

Dream start for Basel. Gonzalez collects a through ball from Frei, holds off two defenders before, as he looks to have run the ball too far, he pokes him beyond the onrushing Fabiano. Takeoff inside 11 minutes.

Not a classic start to the game at St Jakob Park where Basel and Porto are struggling to keep hold of the ball for sustained periods. In Germany meanwhile, it is all Real Madrid in the early moments but nothing has yet tested 17-year-old goalkeeper Wellenruether.

And we're under way in Germany too where another Premier League official in Martin Atkinson gets us away.

Under way in Switzerland. Premier League official Mark Clattenburg the man in the middle.

Teams are out in Switzerland but we await both teams in Germany. Kick-off fast approaching across Europe.

Less than 10 minutes away from kick-off in both our matches. Just seen footage of the Schalke squad lined up along the 18-yard box, facing their home crowd who are on their feet bouncing in unison. fantastic sight and that will surely build into a terrific atmosphere at the Veltins-Arena.

So what of tonight's two ties. Well despite being in wretched recent form, Real Madrid represent a daunting task for Schalke tonight, particularly after last season's 9-2 aggregate win for Ancelotti's side. It should be closer tonight however, though Cristiano Ronaldo will be eager to break a run of three games without a goal.

In the other side in Switzerland, we have two of the most unfancied sides left in the competition. Porto might be 2004 winners but they continue to surprise people with their regular appearance in the knock-out stages, while Basel has become the giant-killers of the continent, this time seeing off Liverpool in the group stage on their way to reaching the last 16.

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So the teams for both matches have been confirmed but it would be wrong to proceed without taking a look at the fall out from the events in Paris yesterday evening. Chelsea fans have been widely condemned for their actions which saw them push a black man off a Paris metro train while singing racist songs. Tonight, the club's search for the perpetrators is intensifying.

The backlash has been ferocious. A 17-year-old fan who was on the train claims the man involved was pushed off because he was a Paris Saint Germain fan. Meanwhile the first black player to play for Chelsea, Paul Canoville, has expressed his disdain for the incident. And finally, Home Office statistics have revealed Chelsea have had more supporters arrested for racist chanting than any other Premier League club during a 13-year period.

Teams:

Schalke 04 v Real Madrid

Schalke 04: Wellenreuther; Uchida, Howedes, Matip, Nastasic, Aogo; Neustadter, Hoger, Boateng, Choupo Moting; Huntelaar.

Real Madrid: Casillas, Carvajal, Varane, Pepe, Marcelo, Kroos, Lucas Silva, Isco, Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema

FC Basel v FC Porto

FC Basel: Vaclík, Samuel, Suchý, Safari, Zuffi, F Frei, Elneny, Xhaka, Streller, Gashi, Gonzalez

FC Porto: Fabiano, Danilo, Maicon, Marcano, Alex Sandro, Casemiro, Brahimi, Herrera, Óliver Torres, Martínez, Tello

The Champions League's return continues for the second night of first leg last 16 clashes. Tonight we have the holders Real Madrid travelling to Schalke, managed by two Italians in Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto di Matteo, while in the other tie two unfanced teams Basel and Porto square off for a place in the last eight. One thing is for sure, we are unlikely to experience the unsavory events that occurred in Paris last night. So sit back and let's enjoy some football, my goodness we need it.