Cristiano Ronaldo starts for Real Madrid in their Champions League semi-final first-leg tie against Bayern Munich at the Bernabeu.
Ronaldo had been sidelined for the past three weeks due to a knee injury. The £86m Welsh winger Gareth Bale had been suffering from a bout of 'flu and is on the bench.
For Bayern, both goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and striker Mario Mandzukic return to starting XI from the team that beat Eintracht Braunschweig 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Sunday.
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