Champions League: Real Madrid v Galatasaray - in pictures

Ronaldo arrives before the match with a smile on his face and his cap at a squiffy angle. In the background, Steve McManaman can be seen lifting the European Cup for Real in 2000 - the eighth of their nine triumphs in this competition. Will they recapture it this year? Photograph: Angel Martinez/Real Madrid via Getty Images

Real Madrid's Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho has won it twice before with Porto and Inter. Here he is greeting Galatasaray's head coach Fatih Terim Photograph: BALLESTEROS/EPA

Galatasaray fans light the stadium up Photograph: Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images

Real Madrid's French defender Raphael Varane vies with Galatasaray's Ivorian forward Didier Drogba as the game gets under way Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images

Ronaldo puts the home side ahead with a dinked finish in only the ninth minute following Mesut Ozil's incisive pass Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

The Portuguese looked supremely confident in his ability to score as he pitched his effort over the onrushing keeper - and so he should with his goal-scoring record in Spain ... Needless to say he celebrates with a typically smug look on his face Photograph: Dani Pozo/AFP/Getty Images

Karim Benzema then adds a second goal from close range in the 28th minute Photograph: Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images

After the interval, Galatasaray's Uruguayan goalkeeper Fernando Muslerais beaten by a header from Real's Argentinian forward Gonzalo Higuain in the 73rd minute. That's capped things off nicely for the home side, while Galatasaray will wonder how they've fallen so far behind Photograph: JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images

Higuain dives off in celebration Photograph: JUAN MEDINA/REUTERS

Drogba shows his frustration as the match ends 3-0 to Real. He and Emmanuel Eboue spurned Galatasaray's best chances, and without an away goal they will surely struggle to overturn this deficit and reach the semi-finals of the tournament Photograph: Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images