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Athetico Madrid scraped into the quarter-finals after a nerve-jangling penalty shootout against a resolute PSV Eindhoven following two goalless legs.
After 14 perfect penalties, Luciano Narsingh rattled the bar with his spot-kick, leaving it to defender Juanfran to put Atleti into the last eight.
There was no separating the sides after 120 minutes although both sides had their chances in normal time, Antoine Griezmann having two chances saved by the excellent Jeroen Zoet.
But despite Atleti’s dominance, it was PSV who came closest to breaking the deadlock, Jan Oblak touching Jurgen Locadia’s drive onto the post before Luuk de Jong’s follow-up header was blocked by Felipe Luis.
With only minutes of extra time remaining Phillip Cocu made the decision to replace top scorer de Jong with Narsingh and the decision would come back to haunt him in the shoot-out.
The result means that Atlético Madrid reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the third season in a row and the fourth time in total.
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