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By Mark Doyle 

 

 

 

Los Blancos appeared to be cruising to a solid 1-0 victory at the Luzhniki Stadium courtesy of Cristiano Ronaldo's first-half strike, only to see Pontus Wernbloom restore parity with just over 30 seconds of injury time remaining.

Unsurprisingly, Mourinho was not impressed with the concession of such a late goal, but the Portuguese remains confident that the Liga leaders will progress to the last eight.

"Without doing anything out of this world, we should have been able to score a second goal," the former Chelsea boss is quoted as saying by AS. "But it's not a bad result.

"I'm not happy but not too sad. This is not a drama. We did the same last year in Lyon [in the last 16] and we still qualified for the quarters. We can win at home."

Madrid welcome CSKA to the Santiago Bernabeu for the second leg on March 14.