{"id":532946,"date":"2026-04-15T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532946\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:50:07","slug":"late-bayern-goals-dump-real-madrid-out-of-champions-league-in-pulsating-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532946\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Bayern goals dump Real Madrid out of Champions League in pulsating game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was this the greatest Champions League double-header ever?<\/p>\n<p>Compile your lists, choose your allegiances, and pick your favourites. Bayern Munich and Real Madrid served up a feast, underlining that, no matter the format, this competition never fails to deliver in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>We can only dream the upcoming World Cup will produce such levels of brilliance and drama after Luis D\u00edaz and Michael Olise struck the late blows in a match that \u2013 \u00a0to quote the mother of all footballing cliches \u2013 had everything.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of superpowers can bring with it a danger the hype will eclipse reality. Not here, as the first half brought five goals and enough opportunities to have doubled the tally. Goalkeepers aside, the superstars delivered. Over two games there were 73 attempts on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Thrillingly for England, Harry Kane stood tall in the centre of it all. His latest clinical strike was his 50th of the season, the first English footballer to hit such a landmark at the game\u2019s highest level since 1931.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Was this the greatest Champions League double-header ever? Compile your lists, choose your allegiances, and pick your favourites.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[160074,1669,184398,184397,218,59,3637,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-532946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news-free","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-champions-league-live","11":"tag-fc-bayern-munich","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gb","14":"tag-real-madrid-cf","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532946","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=532946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}