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(FT) Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid Champions League Semi-final match update
(FT) Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid Champions League Semi-final match update
FULL TIME: Bayern Munich 2-2 Real Madrid
The whistle goes at the end of a highly entertaining semi-final of ebb and flow. The second leg at the Bernabeu next week promises to be a cracker!
90 min +3: Kane goes barrelling down the right and reaches the byline before crossing to nobody. Tchouameni very nearly clipped Kane there. Any contact and Kane would surely have been purchasing a cheap penalty.
90 min +1: Lucas Vázquez is booked for a preposterous comic-book tug from behind on the in-flight Davies’s collar.
88 min: Brahim Díaz tears down the right wing at full tilt. He enters the box and prepares to shoot … only to be denied by Mazraoui’s perfectly timed tackle! Mazraoui had to get that right, because otherwise it was another penalty and, already on a booking, he’d be off.
87 min: Joselu comes on for Rodrygo, whose work is done. Sané meanwhile makes way for Davies.
85 min: That was a clumsy mistake by Kim … and possibly a very costly one. Bayern immediately attempt to restore their precious lead, Gnabry dribbling past Mendy on the right and shaping to shoot, before cutting back and eventually attempting from a much more difficult position. He larrups harmlessly over.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 2-2 Real Madrid (Vinícius Júnior 83)
Vinícius Júnior, like Kane before him, stutters and the keeper goes first. Vinícius Júnior carefully sidefoots down the middle, into the space vacated by the goalie. Real draw level!
Penalty for Real Madrid!
82 min: Kim is spun again, as Vinicius Junior passes to Rodrygo down the inside-left channel. Rodrygo drops a shoulder and turns, only to be grabbed and dragged down by Kim. The referee points to the spot, then books the stand-in central defender.
70 min: Musiala bursts down the left and wins a corner. Bayern are getting a lot of joy down this flank. Lucas Vázquez being given the runaround.
69 min: Bayern are first to everything again. Real can’t keep hold of the ball. The home fans are up.
67 min: Kimmich’s corner from the right is met soundly and squarely by Dier, who from six yards powers a header straight at Lunin. Either side and that was surely a goal. Real are teetering on the edge here.
58 min: That’s a 29th Champions League goal for Harry Kane. It’s his 43rd goal for Bayern. Already!
GOAL! Bayern Munich 2-1 Real Madrid (Kane 57 pen)
Kane stutters, Lunin blinks first and dives. Kane rolls the penalty into the bottom left, cool as ice, and what a turnaround!
Penalty for Bayern!
56 min: Musiala dribbles into the Real box from the left. Lucas Vázquez dangles out a leg and clumsily clips him. Over he goes, and the referee points to the spot! Kane prepares to take. Bellingham has a word in his ear. And then …
55 min: That came out of absolutely nothing, and credit to Dier, who burst down the inside-left channel from deep before switching the play to Sané on the right. A fine pass and assist. But should Lunin have saved it? Possibly, but the shot was so fierce.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-1 Real Madrid (Sané 53)
Just as well Bayern kept Sané warm! He picks up possession out on the right touchline and chops infield past Mendy and into the box. He rasps a fierce shot towards the bottom right. Lunin can’t stop it sneaking in, so hard is the shot. Bayern level!
Half-time postbag. “Tuchel, reportedly, doesn’t have much faith in the defensive prowess of Kimmich and Kim Min-jae, and he may have a point. I felt bad for Eric Dier, as he tried frantically to alert the right side of his defence to the intergalactic swathe of space that they’d left for Vinicius to run into” – Kári Tulinius
“Once again, a team create plenty of chances against Real Madrid and fail to take them. Sané being the guiltiest party. And then get soundly punished by Real’s clinical finishing. You simply can’t hope to beat them and be profligate” – Colum Fordham
“Harry smashed it wide, and Real was inches from a pen. What a disaster that would have been for Bayern. Lucky boys” – Mary Waltz
45 min: Rodrygo hammers a rising free kick that clips off the top of Kane’s head and out for a corner. Kane brave in the wall there. Kroos sends the corner in long from the right. Rodrygo tries to beat Laimer on the opposite flank but settles for another corner. Kroos ambles across to take that one.
44 min: Bellingham’s been quiet, but he suddenly pops up, chasing Valverde’s long pass down the inside-right channel. Mazraoui comes across and cynically clips his ankle just outside the box. Into the book he goes. This is a free kick in a very dangerous position.
42 min: Kane takes a couple of steps and absolutely wellies an effort past the left-hand post. Always wide, and Lunin had it covered, but my, he hit that.
41 min: A lot of pre-kick planning. Kane at the centre of the chat.
40 min: Rodrygo drives down the left and attempts a one-two with Bellingham, who miscontrols. Bellingham has been quiet so far. Give him time. Bayern counter through Musiala, who has been Bayern’s most dangerous attacker up to this point. He dribbles down the inside-right channel before drawing a clumsy foul from Nacho. A free kick in a very dangerous position, just outside the D.
38 min: Kimmich hits the corner long. The whistle goes for some shoving. Bayern still haven’t put Lunin to serious work, that Sane chance on 40 seconds apart.
37 min: Bayern get the ball back and get patient. A lot of sideways passing and not much in the way of speed. They need to pick it up. Mazraoui takes matters into his own hands and suddenly sprints down the left to earn a corner.
35 min: Vinicius Junior win a corner down the left. Kroos takes. Neuer punches confidently clear from the middle of a packed penalty area.
34 min: A surge of noise from the home crowd as they attempt to restart their team. Bayern’s fast pace of the early exchanges absent now.
32 min: Real stroke it around the middle of the park again. Slow and sure. Happy to let the clock tick on. Bayern don’t commit to the press, and it’s a bit of a stand-off. On the touchline, Thomas Tuchel rails at his low-energy players.
30 min: Vinicius Junior tries to sprint past Kim down the right but the big defender isn’t having any of it. He holds his line impressively. Bayern counter, and Musiala dribbles into a little space down the right. But he can neither find Kane in the middle, nor work enough space for a meaningful shot. Real eventually clear their lines.
28 min: Bayern have responded well to going behind, in so much as they don’t look rattled and are stroking it around in their usual imperious style. But the chance creation isn’t happening any more.
15.27 EDT26 min: Muller, playing in the pocket, wedges down the middle in the hope of releasing Sane into the Real box. Sane goes over, and wants a penalty, but he’s not getting one. Lucas Vázquez had gently nudged him off balance, but nothing that deserved the award of a spot kick.
15.26 EDT25 min: … and after all of that early Bayern pressure as well! Yep, Real Madrid are the masters of the European rope-a-dope.
15.25 EDT
GOAL! Bayern Munich 0-1 Real Madrid (Vinícius Júnior 24)
Suddenly Real pounce! Kroos ambles in from the right, before playing a defence-splitter down the middle. Vinícius Júnior is clear! He opens his body and slots past a flailing Neuer and into the bottom-right corner. Easy as that!
21 min: Real finally show in attack, Lucas Vázquez winning a corner down the right. They play it short, then Vinicius Junior shanks a weird shot-cum-cross high into the stand behind the goal. A few of his team-mates give him the what-for.
19 min: Kane attempts to release Sane down the middle but Rudiger spots the danger and saunters across to intercept. The aforementioned Kaiser would have been impressed with that display of insouciant defensive authority.
18 min: Mazraoui jigs elegantly down the left touchline, only to be unceremoniously stopped by Lucas Vázquez. No free kick, though he wanted and probably deserved one.
16 min: Musiala has another go, dragging a weak effort wide left from distance. Real surely can’t keep on giving up chances, because at some point a Bayern player will connect with his shot properly.
14 min: Bayern continue to stroke it around, probing hither and yon. They’re all over Real … but the visitors are holding their shape, and despite Bayern enjoying 64 percent of possession so far, they’ve only forced Lunin into action once.
15.14 EDT12 min: Muller dribbles down the right and cuts back for Musiala, who leans back and hoicks over. Real can’t get a touch.
15.12 EDT11 min: This is all Bayern, who have started very well and are first to mostly everything. Real are, of course, past masters at soaking up pressure then striking out of nowhere.
15.10 EDT9 min: Kane attempts to score from the halfway line, having spotted Lunin wandering around miles from his goal. It’s always heading over the bar, but full marks for ambition. Kane’s getting a taste for this sort of thing.
7 min: Real have started a little slowly. A couple of loose passes in the midfield and Goretzka is able to slip Sane into loads of space on the left. Sane thinks about looking for Kane or Musiala in the middle, but hesitates and the chance to cross is gone. So is the chance to shoot, just about, and in a panic he flays a wild effort over the bar.
15.07 EDT6 min: Kimmich hits this one long. It’s half cleared. But then Sane feeds Kane down the right. Kane drops a shoulder and pings a shot straight at Lunin.
5 min: Musiala turns on the jets and earns a corner down the inside-right channel. Kimmich plays it short and back to Musiala, who attempts to return it down the channel. Kimmich wants to cross from the byline but settles for a second corner.
4 min: Bellingham tries to switch play from right to left with a first-time speculative hoof. Rodrygo can’t latch onto the ball and Kimmich tidies up. A nice open start to this semi-final.
15.03 EDT2 min: Real reply to that early concern with a period of nerve-settling possession. They ping it around and eventually Bellingham is caught offside.
15.02 EDT41 sec: A huge chance for Bayern! Sane is released into the Real box down the inside-left channel by Kane. It’s a tight-ish angle, but Sane only has Lunin to beat. He hits his shot straight at the keeper. What a start that could have been!
The teams are out! Bayern play in their red and white, forcing Real into their dark-blue change strip. A fine couple-of-cold-steins-in atmosphere of anticipation at the Fußball Arena München, as Uefa insist we call the Allianz Arena. It glows red in the Bavarian night. A huge banner celebrating the late, great Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer. We’ll be off after a quick blast of Zadok the Priest .
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