Borrusia Dortmund’s Julian Schieber (extreme right) lays it for teammate Felipe Santana to score the winning goal during the Champions League quarter final second leg tie against Malaga, in Dortmund, on Tuesday. (AP)

Istanbul: Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid, aiming to become kings of Europe for the 10th time, foiled a dramatic fightback by Galatasaray on Tuesday to reach the Champions League semi-finals.

Ronaldo, top scorer in the competition, took his goal tally for the season to 11 to make sure that Jose Mourinho’s side went through to the last four 5-3 on aggregate despite losing the second leg 3-2 in Istanbul.

Mourinho praised the passionate support generated by the home crowd and the spirit of the Galatasaray players.

“We always want to play in an atmosphere like the one in the stadium tonight,” he told reporters. “I don’t think our players were affected by it but the Turkish players were really affected.

“They used the atmosphere in the second half and played a fantastic match. They were knocked out but if only all clubs would go out in the same fashion — they put their heart and pride into it.”

Real went ahead on the night when Ronaldo slid the ball in from two metres following a low cross from the right by Sami Khedira after seven minutes.

Emmanuel Eboue then galvanised Galatasaray into action with a piledriver of an equaliser from the edge of the area in the 57th minute.

Wesley Sneijder made amends for a glaring miss moments earlier when he added a second goal for Galatasaray by sending the ball between the legs of Real defender Raphael Varane before supplying a neat finish.

Didier Drogba, Chelsea’s hero in last year’s final, then sent the noisy crowd into raptures with a delightful back heel following a cross by substitute Nordin Amrabat.

Real substitute Alvaro Arbeloa was sent off in the closing stages for a second caution but Ronaldo settled his team’s nerves by adding his second goal in stoppage time after good work by Karim Benzema.

The Madrid team, who romped to a 3-0 win in the first leg at the Bernabeu, were in complete command after Ronaldo’s seventh-minute goal in Istanbul.

The Portuguese almost doubled the lead with a long-range drive that keeper Fernando Muslera did well to stop.

Real winger Angel Di Maria also missed an excellent opportunity after 24 minutes when a deft back-heel from Ronaldo sent him through on goal and Muslera kept the ball out with an instinctive save.

Despite the raucous support of the home fans, Galatasaray were unable to make much of an impression early on.

It was only in the latter stages of the first half the hosts began to exert any meaningful pressure.

Diego Lopez saved well when Sneijder fired in a shot from the edge of the area in the 38th minute and soon after Drogba just failed to latch on to a through ball that would have put him clear.

Umut Bulut then had another effort from the edge of the area that flew over the bar.

Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund scored twice in a dramatic stoppage-time finale, including a controversial offside goal, to beat Malaga 3-2 and reach the semi-finals for the first time in 15 years.

Malaga appeared to be going through to the last four in their sparkling debut season in the Champions League but their dreams were dashed when last-gasp goals from Marco Reus and Felipe Santana sent the Germans through in a stunning encounter.

Santana’s winner left the Malaga players fuming because when the cross came in four Dortmund players appeared to be offside and the Brazilian defender himself also looked offside when he poked the ball over the line in the dying seconds.

“Football is an act that involves many factors. The third goal was an offside goal and there were all kinds of elbows and punches,” said Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini.

Malaga plan to make a formal complaint about the referee. The club’s director general Vicente Casado said on Wednesday before flying back to Spain with the squad that Malaga would file a written complaint with soccer’s European governing body Uefa about the refereeing.

RESULTS

Quarter final
Borussia Dortmund 3 Malaga 2 (Borussia
advanced 3-2 on
aggregate)
Galatasaray 3 Real Madrid 2 (Real Madrid
advanced 5-3 on
aggregate)