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Chelsea draw 1-1 with Galatasaray as Real crush Schalke

Chelsea have the upper hand in their Champions League last-16 tie with Galatasaray after coming away from a testing environment in Istanbul with a 1-1 first-leg draw.

The visitors led at half-time thanks to an early goal from Fernando Torres, but Galatasaray improved in the second half and restored parity after the hour mark when Cameroon defender Aurelien Chedjou found the net.

Drogba, Chelsea’s record European scorer with 34 goals in 69 games, was otherwise kept quiet in his first game against his former side since scoring the winning penalty when the Londoners lifted the Champions League trophy in May 2012.

Chelsea dominated the opening 45 minutes but just had Torres’s early goal as reward.

Torres was denied a second by a sprawling save from Fernando Muslera soon after the restart but the game then went through a scrappy period, punctuated by a flurry of yellow cards shown by Spanish referee Carlos Velasco Carballo.

Galatasaray were by now in the ascendancy and Inan, another booked in that flurry of cards, hit the post from close range in the 63rd minute after Drogba nodded a header across goal.

The Turkish champions were not to be denied a leveller three minutes later, though, Chedjou wriggling free of his marker to convert a Sneijder corner from point-blank range.

The hosts pressed for a winner in the latter stages but were unable to find a second goal - with Chelsea perhaps grateful in the end to leave the Turk Telekom Arena on level terms at the halfway point in the tie.

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Meanwhile, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema each scored a brace as Real Madrid cruised to an emphatic 6-1 win over Schalke in Germany.

The Spanish outfit led 2-0 at the interval following strikes from Benzema and Bale, before Ronaldo scored Madrid's third in the early stages of the second period.

Benzema netted his second just before the hour mark, but Los Blancos were not finished as Bale completed his brace after 69 minutes, before Ronaldo followed suit late on.

The home supporters had something to cheer late on, however, when Dutch forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar rattled a powerful volley into the top corner against his former club.

It is the second time Madrid have scored six in Europe this season, following their 6-1 evisceration of Galatasaray in the group stage.


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