Luis Diaz and Michael Olise scored late goals to give Bayern Munich a 4-3 triumph over Real Madrid yesterday. This gave them a 6-4 aggregate win and sent them on to the semifinals against defending champions Paris Saint-Germain.
The game was tied at the interval following an exciting first half. Real scored three times during the game, according to AFP.
Arda Guler took advantage of a sloppy ball from Manuel Neuer to give the visitors the lead after just 34 seconds. He then scored again from a free kick after Aleksandar Pavlovic tied the game.
Harry Kane put Bayern ahead in the tie, but Kylian Mbappe brought it back to even when he scored to make it 3-2 for Madrid before halftime.
With four minutes left, Eduardo Camavinga got a second yellow card and was sent off. Bayern surged forward, and Diaz blasted the ball into the corner from outside the box after a key deflection.
Bayern broke free when Real was trying to get an equalizer, and Olise curled in a beautiful shot to seal their place in the final four, where Luis Enrique’s reigning European winners are waiting.
After the final whistle, things got out of hand, and Guler got a straight red card for getting in the referee’s face.
For the first time in Real’s long history in the Champions League, none of the players who started the game were Spanish. Jude Bellingham, who played well off the bench in the first leg, was one of four players that Alvaro Arbeloa changed for the visitors.
Neuer, who got a lot of praise for his great play in Madrid, gave Real the first goal. In the first minute, the Bayern goalie made a mistake and passed the ball directly to Guler, who floated a shot into the open goal on his first touch.
Bayern appeared shocked, but they quickly fought back when Pavlovic headed in a Joshua Kimmich corner after Real goalkeeper Andriy Lunin couldn’t read the ball’s flight.
Real was ahead again thanks to a Guler goal just a few minutes into the game, and Neuer wasn’t at his best again.
The Turkey international sent a free kick into the top corner, and Neuer got a touch on it but couldn’t stop it.
Before halftime, the game kept going back and forth, with Kane and then Mbappe scoring.
In the 38th minute, Kane scored a perfect goal into the bottom corner to draw the game for Bayern and give them the lead in the tie. Just before the halftime, Mbappe sprinted onto a Vinicius Junior ball and scored to tie the tie 4-4 on aggregate.
Real often broke through Bayern’s high line, so Kompany sent in Alphonso Davies at the break to speed things up.
In the second half, both teams had chances, but Olise was more dangerous, forcing Lunin to make a fingertip save with 20 minutes left.
Camavinga came on in the middle of the second half, but he got two yellow cards in a row, leaving his team with one less player at the end.
It was a turning point when Bayern scored three minutes later. Diaz’s shot from outside the box hit Eder Militao and went past Lunin.
Olise made sure that Bayern moved on long into stoppage time. This was the first time since 2012 that the German powerhouse beat Real in a knockout match.
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