Ramos gets Real out of jail after early battering

Football Soccer - Napoli v Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg - San Paolo stadium, Naples, Italy - 07/03/17 - Napoli's Dries Mertens waves at the end of the match against Real Madrid. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos performed another rescue act to wreck Napoli's brave comeback attempt and take the Champions League title-holders into the quarter-finals on Tuesday after they had taken a first-half battering.

Napoli, trailing 3-1 from the first leg of the round of 16 tie, looked more than capable of overturning the deficit as they dominated the first half and took the lead through Dries Mertens.