Chelsea made sure of an English presence in the Champions League last eight after roaring back to defeat Napoli on Wednesday, while Real Madrid swept aside CSKA Moscow 4-1 to take their place in the quarter-finals. Trailing 3-1 from the first leg in Naples, Chelsea levelled the tie with a 75th-minute Frank Lampard penalty and then secured victory through defender Branislav Ivanovic in extra time to complete a nail-biting 5-4 aggregate success.
The 4-1 victory on the night made it three wins from three for caretaker coach Roberto Di Matteo, who replaced the sacked Andre Villas-Boas between the two legs of the last-16 tie. It also meant that England avoided the ignominy of failing to provide a quarter-finalist in Europe's top club competition for the first time since 1996. Meanwhile, former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho's dream of becoming the first coach to lift the trophy with three different sides remains on track after Madrid overwhelmed Leonid Slutsky's CSKA in the Spanish capital.
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