Atletico Madrid produced an inspiring performance as they swept asided former champions, AC Milan 4-1 on the night, 5-1 on aggregate to qualify for the quarter final of the UEFA champions league for the first time since 1997.
Diego Costa's double, a goal each from Arda Turan and Raul Garcia Rendered Kaka's equalizer irrelevatnt as they complete their victory at the Vicente Calderon after an initial 1-0 away victory at the San Siro last month.
Diego Costa kept up a record of scoring in every Champions League game he has played this season as he opened the scoring for the night with just 3 minutes of game time played.
Gabi robbed Michael Essien of the ball on the sideline and Koke curled a sublime cross towards the far post and Costa showed great athleticism to divert a side-footed volley past Christian Abbiati.
Milan settled into the encounter after a lacklustre start and draw level on 27 minutes with the equaliser on the night.
The ball was spread wide to Andrea Poli and he made up a pin-point cross to the back post where Kaka headed home from close range past Courtois .
Moments later, the Brazilian missed a glorious chance to put Milan ahead on away goals, as he rose highest from six yards to meet Adel Taarabt's centre cross, only for it to go just over the bar.
That miss eventually proved costly as Turan restored Atletico's lead with just 5 minutes of play left in the first half when the Turkey international's volley took a huge deflection off Daniele Bonera before looping over Abbiati who was commited to the initial direction of the ball and could only ball watch as the ball flew into the bottom corner.
Raul Garcia nearly made it three on the stroke of half-time with an acrobatic free-kick that went just wide.
Mario Balotelli had a free-kick deflected over and Robinho had an effort from a narrow angle pushed away by on-loan Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
Any chance of a comeback was ended when Koke's free-kick was headed in by Atletico captain Garcia.
Costa made it four when he latched on to a loose ball from Jose Sosa and thumped in a low cross-shot off the post into the net.
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