Real Madrid 4 Tottenham 0
Their English opponents, who had seen off AC Milan in the previous round, went behind in just the fourth minute as Adebayor headed home from a corner and then lost Peter Crouch, who collected two yellow cards in the opening 15 minutes.
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp injected some pace into his attack by replacing Van der Vaart with Jermain Defoe at half-time. The striker looked lively, but Real's ascendancy was shown when Adebayor grabbed his second after angling a header past Heurelho Gomes from Marcelo's cross to make it 2-0.
Gomes was made to pay for punching at a cross when the ball found its way to Di Maria, who unleashed a beautiful 20-yard curler past the Brazilian for the hosts' third after 72 minutes.
The killer blow came three minutes from the end though when Ronaldo got the goal his performance deserved, rifling a 20-yard volley past Gomes from Kaka's cross.
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Inter Milan 2-5 SchalkeSchalke's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer advanced out of his area under pressure from Milito and headed clear.
He got good distance but the ball went straight to Stankovic in the centre circle, who showed great technique and power to volley first time over the defence, over Neuer and over the line just after 25 seconds.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos was left completely unmarked at the far post from Jefferson Farfan's corner and, though his header was straight at Cesar, the ball broke to Matip, who hammered home on the 17th minute mark.
A neat move in the 33rd minute, involving Milito and Javier Zanetti saw Sneijder cross to Esteban Cambiasso at the far post.
Cambiasso headed back across goal to Milito, who, having stayed just onside, had a simple task to finish from close range.
They could not hang onto their lead until half-time, though, as Edu drew Schalke level, following up to finish from a narrow angle after Cesar had done well to save his initial deflected shot.
But it was Schalke who took the lead in the 53rd minute as Raul claimed his 70th Champions League goal, finishing low past Cesar after good work by Farfan.
And it got worse for Inter four minutes later when Ranocchia slid in under no pressure and diverted Jurado's low cross into his own net.
Farfan's 75th-minute shot was saved by Cesar and his follow-up effort turned against the post by Ranocchia, but moments later the ball broke to Edu, who turned Ranocchia and curled the ball past the despairing goalkeeper.
A shellshocked Inter rarely threatened thereafter and they will have a mountain to climb in Gelsenkirchen next week.
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