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Spurs left the Bernabeu with a point after an intelligent and brave performance marred by one rash challenge

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Tue 17 Oct 2017 17.00 EDTFirst published on Tue 17 Oct 2017 13.45 EDT
Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur shows appreciation to the fans after the match.
Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur shows appreciation to the fans after the match. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur shows appreciation to the fans after the match. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

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Match report: Real Madrid 1-1 Tottenham

David Hytner was at the Bernabeu for the Guardian and his winged monkey has just pitched up in London bearing this on-the-whistle match report. Tune in later for added reflections and quotes from the players and managers involved in a great game of football in the Spanish capital.

Mauricio Pochettino, Manager of Tottenham Hotspur celebrates with Harry Kane. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
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Elsewhere in this group: Apoel and Borussia Dortmund have also shared the points after their match in Cyprus finished with an identical scoreline. Spurs and Real lead the group with seven points each, while their rivals already look to be duking it out for third place with just one point apiece.

Full-time: Real Madrid 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

It ends one apiece between Real and Tottenham, where a young Spurs side depleted by injury and rather lacking in Champions League experience has put in a very impressive and mature performance to make off with a share of the spoils. A Raphael Varane shin into his own net gave them their first ever goal against Real, while the only noticable blot on their copybook was a ludicrous Serge Aurier challenge that gifted Real Madrid their equaliser from the penalty spot. Cristiano Ronaldo made no mistake as he sent Hugo Lloris the wrong way just before half-time.

Tottenham missed two glorious chances in the second half, with Harry Kane being denied by a wonderful save from Keylor Navas when he should have scored. Christian Eriksen also went close, only to be denied by another good Navas save. At the other end of the pitch, Hugo Lloris also performed heroics, saving brilliantly from Karim Benzema with his left foot, before using his left hand to keep out a Cristiano Ronaldo shot that was goalbound. A point won for Spurs after a terrific performance, but they may feel they should have taken all three.

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo with Tottenham’s Harry Kane after the match. Photograph: Paul Hanna/Reuters
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90+3 min: Tottenham are finishing this match on the front foot, with Son advancing forward as the referee blows his final whistle. It’s all over and it’s finished all square at the Bernabeu.

90+2 min: Raphael Varane is forced to hack clear as Son and Kane hunt him down on the edge of his own penalty area.

Real Madrid’s French defender Raphael Varane (R) clears the ball as Spur’s striker Harry Kane hovers nearby. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
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90+1 min: Real Madrid have a corner as the game reaches its knockings. The ball’s sent into the Tottenham penalty area, where Lloris claims comfortably.

88 min: Moussa Sissoko requires treatment after what looks like an innocuous slip. There doesn’t seem too much wrong with him, but he limps off to be replaced by Heung-min Son.

83 min: Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld leap either side of Cristiano Ronaldo to stop the Real Madrid striker getting a header on goal as he climbs to reach a cross from the left.

82 min: Moussa Sissoko plays a ball down the right flank for Christian Eriksen to chase. The Spurs playmaker gets in behind the Real Madrid defence and attempts to drill the ball square to Harry Kane, but his delivery is weak. He looks shattered with tiredness.

81 min: Elsewhere in this group, Borussia Dortmund have equalised against Nicosia in Cyprus, where it’s 1-1.

77 min: Real go forward, with Marco Asensio picking out Cristiano Ronaldo with a ball out wide to the left. A period of sustained Real Madrid pressure ensues, but ends with Marcelo getting a pat on the back from his own manager as he slides into Zinedine Zidane’s technical area and lands in a pile at the great man’s feet while unsuccessfully trying to keep the ball from going out for a throw-in.

74 min: Navas to the rescue again as Eriksen shoots towards the near post from a narrow angle, when picking out Harry Kane at the far post might have been a better idea. Kane certainly thinks it might have been a better idea and isn’t slow about telling his team-mate through the medium of mime. Eriksen’s corner is dreadful and Benzema clears.

72 min: CHANCE!!! Keylor Navas pulls off a miraculous save from Harry Kane, who was put clean through on goal by Fernando Llorente. The Spurs striker was seven or eight yards from goal and you’d have bet the farm on him scoring, but Real Madrid’s goalkeeper got a hand to a shot that was heading for the bottom right-hand corner and clawed the ball out for a corner. That was incredible opportunity and Kane is on his knees with an expression on his face that suggests he can’t believe he didn’t score. It was a fine save, but a bad miss.

Keylor Navas of Real Madrid saves a shot from Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
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70 min: From the corner, Spurs earn some respite when Cristiano Ronaldo shoves Vertonghen in the small of the back and concedes a free-kick.

69 min: Spurs embark on a rare second half sortie into Real Madrid territory. It comes to nothing and Real go on the attack again with Achraf Hakimi on the ball down the right flank. The Moroccan teenager has been very impressive tonight. Once again he runs at Vertonghen and wins a corner, much to the Tottenham player’s disgust. He thinks it should have been a goal-kick.

67 min: Elsewhere in this group, Apoel have taken a surprise lead against Borussia Dortmund in Cyprus. Mickael Pote with the only goal of the game there, I’m told.

64 min: Another Lloris parry keeps Cristiano Ronaldo at bay. This time the Real Madrid man was running away from goal with the ball on his left foot, but still managed to unleash a powerful diagonal drive that the Tottenham goalkeeper blocked but couldn’t hold.

62 min: Another great stop from Hugo Lloris, who gets a strong left-hand to a rising shot from Cristiano Ronaldo that was heading goalwards. Tottenham’s French captain is keeping them in the game with some splendid saves.

60 min: Tottenham win a free-kick wide on the right for a foul on Eriksen. The Dane takes the free-kick and his delivery sails straight into the arms of Keylor Navas.

58 min: Good defending from Davinson Sanchez, who is on hand to hook the ball clear as Cristiano Ronaldo attempts to pick out Toni Kroos with a neat little dink into the penalty area. Spurs are on the ropes here and have been since the start of the second half.

57 min: Tottenham win a corner, with Hakimi putting the ball out of play. Eriksen sends the ball into the Real penalty area, where Davinson Sanchez heads wide.

55 min: Hugo Lloris denies Karim Benzema with a sensational save. The French striker sent a powerful downward header goalwards from about five yards out, but his compatriot somehow managed to keep it out with his left foot. Incredible goalkeeping, although a cynic might say Lloris didn’t know much about it. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema has a point blank header saved by Hugo Lloris of Spurs. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP
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52 min: Harry Winks attempts to play a through-ball to the feet of Harry Kane on the edge of the Real Madrid penalty area, but Casemiro intercepts. The idea was good, the execution left a little to be desired.

50 min: Good hold-up play from Harry Kane leads to a Tottenham corner as the striker’s cross towards Christian Eriksen goes out of play off Raphael Varane. From the corner, Real Madrid get the opportunity to clear their lines after a Harry Winks foul on Luka Modric just outside the Real Madrid penalty area.

49 min: Real Madrid win a free-kick wide on the right near the touchline. The ball’s played in to the crowded penalty area, where Eric Dier heads clear for Spurs.

47 min: Real Madrid play the ball out from the back under a heavy Tottenham press and Cristiano Ronaldo tries to release Hakimi down the right flank. The young full-back has enjoyed a thrilling duel with Jan Vertonghen all evening and on this occasion, the Spurs defender prevails.

Second half: Real Madrid 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

46 min: Spurs get the second half under way with no changes in personnel on either side.

Looking at the Spurs goal again: It seems Harry Kane didn’t get any sort of touch on the ball before Raphael Varane shinned it past his own keeper. The Spurs striker looked a smidge offside as he began his run across the bows of the Real Madrid defender towards the near post, got in front of his man but failed to get a touch on the ball. It didn’t matter.

Other half-time replays show that Fernando Llorente should definitely have got a penalty when Casemiro hooked his leg during the scramble following the corner I described in the 22nd minute, while the needless Serge Aurier challenge on Toni Kroos that led to Real Madrid’s penalty was just dimwitted. The Spurs full-back had no business diving in on Kroos on the edge of his six-yard box, as the German scrambled to get the ball out from under his feet.

Elsewhere in Group H

It’s scoreless between Apoel and Borussia Dortmund in Cyprus, between two teams who have yet to secure a point in this group.

Half-time: Real Madrid 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

A very entertaining first half comes to a close with the scores tied at one apiece. A Raphael Varane own goal gave Spurs the lead after Harry Kane got on the end of a cross from Serge Aurier and flicked the ball home off the Real Madrid defender’s shin. Shortly before half-time, Real Madrid equalised courtesy of a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty that was needlessly gifted to the home side by a rash Aurier challenge on Toni Kroos.

43 min: Serge Aurier has been criticised for his immaturity and impetuousness on more than one occasion this season and he’s likely to be castigated for the challenge that led to that penalty too. Toni Kroos had the ball stuck under his feet at the end of a good move that led to him getting possession in the Spurs penalty area and there was no need for the SPurs defender to dive in and bring him down. That didn’t stop him, mind. The referee had no hesitation in pointing to the spot and booked Aurier for good measure before Ronaldo levelled the score.

GOAL! Real Madrid 1-1 Tottenham (Ronaldo 43pen)

Cristiano Ronaldo rifles the ball inside the right upright, while Hugo Lloris dives the wrong way.

Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid scores the equaliser from the penalty spot. Photograph: TGSPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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PENALTY! Real Madrid win a spot-kick!

42 min: Serge Aurier brings down Toni Kroos in the penalty area.

Moussa Sissoko of Tottenham Hotspur fouls Toni Kroos of Real Madrid. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
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40 min: Another corner for Spurs. Christian Eriksen sends the ball into the mixer, where Casemiro clears with Harry Kane lurking.

38 min: Free-kick for Real Madrid, wide on the right. Toni Kroos floats the ball into the penalty area, where Sergio Ramos heads it across the face of goal. It’s too high for Karim Benzema, who is unable to get his head to the ball for reasons that, on this occasion are not his fault.

37 min: Luka Modric floats a delightful ball into the Tottenham penalty area for Karim Benzema to attack. It’s on a plate for the France international eight yards from goal, but he appears to lose track of the trajectory and fails to connect.

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