{"id":518532,"date":"2026-04-08T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:01:08","slug":"harry-kane-gives-bayern-munich-edge-despite-real-madrid-fightback-in-thriller-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518532\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane gives Bayern Munich edge despite Real Madrid fightback in thriller | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is why you guys come to these games,\u201d Vincent Kompany had said, and especially here. For the quality, the chaos and the goals, the edge, the drama and the history that invades every moment. Another wild Champions League<\/a> night had this place believing in another crazy comeback, the noise level rising towards what appeared destined to be one, last thunderous crescendo as Real Madrid rose again and went for their biggest European rivals. In the end, though, Bayern Munich held on for a win that sets up another, definitive battle at the Allianz Arena next week.<\/p>\n

Strikes from Luis D\u00edaz and Harry Kane either side of half-time had given Bayern a 2-0 lead, underlining an incontestable authority in the opening hour. But a Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 goal 16 minutes from the end began a rebellion that could have left the tie on even more of a knife edge than it is, Madrid finding chances for a draw or even another victory. They also found Manuel Neuer rolling back the years, aged 40, with nine saves.<\/p>\n

By the final whistle, Bayern might have felt like an opportunity to end it had slipped them by, yet they might also have felt relief. As for Kompany, he said he was \u201chappy\u201d. A 2-1 away win is a superb start, their first victory here in 24 years, but they know it is not the end, not yet. Madrid must seek their comeback in Munich and without the suspended Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni. \u201cIt won\u2019t be easy but if there\u2019s any team that can do it, it\u2019s Real Madrid<\/a>,\u201d \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have scored more and they could have scored more,\u201d Kompany said. There had been 39 shots and when the first goal came four minutes before the break, Bayern slicing their way through for D\u00edaz to sweep home, the only surprise was that it had taken that long.<\/p>\n

Kompany had insisted that he wanted his team to show no fear; he had also insisted that no team could stop another forever, and both of those scenarios were played out. Bayern had gone at Madrid from the start, embracing the risk.<\/p>\n

Asked about the threat from Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior and Mbapp\u00e9, Kompany had invited his enquirer to contemplate the threat posed by his players instead. Madrid had to, red shirts everywhere. The first shot came after 43 seconds and Konrad Laimer could have scored, just as Michael Olise could have from the second four minutes later. From the third Andriy Lunin tipped over a Joshua Kimmich shot from a corner. Harry Kane then cushioned a volley into Dayot Upamecano, who could not believe he didn\u2019t get full contact from three yards, \u00c1lvaro Carreras somehow scrambling clear.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid\u2019s Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 sees his shot go in to halve the deficit against Bayern Munich at the Bernab\u00e9u. Photograph: Bernat Armangu\u00e9\/AP<\/p>\n

At this point Madrid could not get out, Bayern smothering them, but they would. And when they did that, danger followed. Neuer denied Mbapp\u00e9 and dived low to deny Vin\u00edcius. Bayern continued to press Madrid into mistakes and twice in a minute Serge Gnabry might have given them the lead. The first saw him fail to control inside the six-yard box; the second needed Lunin to stop him. But Madrid had awoken and Mbapp\u00e9 drew another superb save from Neuer.<\/p>\n

Somehow it was still 0-0 but not for long. Pressed once more, Vin\u00edcius\u2019s loose ball hit Olise and Madrid were turned; five seconds later, the ball was in the net. Gnabry and Kane set up D\u00edaz dashing in unseen over Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s shoulder to score. The first had taken a while, the second would not. The teams had only been back out 21 seconds when Carreras was dispossessed. Aleksandar Pavlovic and Olise combined to find Kane, who finished calmly amidst the chaos.<\/p>\n

Luis D\u00edaz opens the scoring for Bayern Munich. Photograph: Bernat Armangu\u00e9\/AP<\/p>\n

Madrid appeared to be at Bayern\u2019s mercy now. And yet \u2013 and how many times have you heard \u2018and yet\u2019 with Madrid in Europe? \u2013 they should have scored when Alexander-Arnold\u2019s punt and a slip from Upamecano sent Vin\u00edcius clean through. Neuer though held his nerve, forcing him wide, and the Brazilian hit the side-netting.<\/p>\n

When Mbapp\u00e9 got free soon after, Jude Bellingham on as a sub and bursting through to find him as he would do often, Neuer made a fantastic stop. Emboldened by that, by the belief there was nothing to lose and an entire history behind them, Madrid went for it and Mbapp\u00e9 was soon in again, his shot bending just wide.<\/p>\n

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Then it happened, the Bernab\u00e9u erupting the way it does, that familiar feeling flooding back, a glimpse of another miracle. A brilliant \u00addelivery from Alexander-Arnold set up Mbapp\u00e9 to put the ball off the bar and over the line. The fuse was lit, the gap a single goal, and the momentum Madrid\u2019s, alive. A quarter of an hour remained, an eternity here.<\/p>\n

Vin\u00edcius went through, stopped by Neuer, who then saved from \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o. Madrid couldn\u2019t level it at one end, Bayern couldn\u2019t end it at the other. The final, frantic minutes slipped away, Mbapp\u00e9 curling wide on 89 minutes, but this time that moment didn\u2019t come, and so to Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is why you guys come to these games,\u201d Vincent Kompany had said, and especially here. For the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}