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<h1>Real Madrid Fail to Make Champions League History</h1>
The current titleholders missed the opportunity to break the record for sequential wins in Europe's chief glass rivalry, after shockingly losing at home to Schalke
The Spanish outfit went into Tuesday's most recent 16, second-leg go against Schalke at the Santiago Bernabeu on the back of 10 successive competition triumphs and were required to have little trouble in discarding a side that they had beaten 2-0 in Gelsenkirchen three weeks prior.
On the other hand, in spite of going 3-2 ahead right on time in the second half through Karim Benzema, after twice fighting against eminent loss amid the opening 42 minutes, Madrid were hair-raisingly beaten 4-3 after Schalke went inside one objective of dumping the ruling champions out of Europe.
Carlo Ancelotti's men had not neglected to win an amusement in Europe's head club rivalry since losing 2-0 at Borussia Dortmund in their quarter-last second leg last April.
Back-to-backs wins over Bayern in the semi-finals were trailed by an emotional additional time triumph over city rivals Atletico in the Lisbon show-stopper in May, before gathering stage triumphs against Basel, Liverpool and Ludogorets (twice every) and a month ago's win at Schalke.
Notwithstanding, Wednesday's astonishment setback implies that Madrid must stay content with an offer of the record for successive Champions League wins with Bayern, who piled on 10 triumphs in succession in the middle of April and December of 2013 - a period which took in their Champions League triumph at Wembley under previous supervisor Jupp Heynckes and the begin of Pep Guardiola's present rule.