Real Madrid v Bayern Munich: Champions League semi-final second leg – live | Champions League

39 min: Vinícius Júnior drops a shoulder down the inside-left channel. De Ligt obstructs him. The hosts load the box, but Kroos’s delivery is no good and easily cleared. But then Vinícius Júnior comes again down the left. His low cross-cum-shot misses everyone on the six-yard line, but it’s heading into the bottom right. Neuer tips brilliantly around the post.

37 min: Bayern with more sterile possession; the crowd with more of the old whistling.

35 min: Now Kane dribbles down a cul-de-sac and slap-bang into Valverde, when he had options either side. Maybe over-thinking things with the stakes so high? His first-time volley past the post, when he didn’t have time to ponder, was more like it.

33 min: Kane has an opportunity to release Davies down the left but clanks his pass straight at the nearest white shirt. That’s the second time he’s dropped deep only to play a loose pass, having earlier nixed another potential attack by sending a simple ball to Kimmich into the stand; most uncharacteristic behaviour from Kane.

31 min: On the subject of coming close, I’ve probably undersold that Neuer double save during the multi-ball incident. It was a brilliant fingertip save to deny Vinícius Júnior, deflecting his drive onto the post, and Rodrygo absolutely hammered the rebound goalwards, only for Neuer to spring back up off the turf, parry and claim.

29 min: Kimmich’s right-wing cross is deflected into Kane’s path, just to the right of the D. Kane creams a first-time drive inches wide of the post. It took a nick off a defender; nothing comes of the resulting corner. But that’s as close as Bayern have come.

28 min: Gnabry can’t continue. He trudges off sadly and Alphonso Davies takes his place.

27 min: Gnabry goes down clutching his hamstring. It doesn’t look promising for the Bayern man. Meanwhile Charles Antaki has been considering the various pros and cons of a Bayern win: “Two teams from the same country in the final always takes a bit of air out of the thing for everybody else, so that’s not good; Brits don’t get to see Real stars especially Jude Bellingham in the flesh, also not good; but on the other hand Arsenal fans get the chance to line the streets and flick Vs at Harry Kane on the bus, so it wouldn’t be all bad.”

25 min: Carvajal clatters into the back of Kane and earns himself a talking-to. A couple of Real players treading a fine line, but the ref’s keeping his cards in his pocket for now.

24 min: Rodrygo cuts the ball back from the right but Vinícius Júnior can’t control to shoot. Real come again down the other flank, and Bellingham spins Sane in the Cruyffian style on the byline, only for the flag to go up incorrectly for a goal kick. Bellingham had kept that in play with great grace. Shame play wasn’t allowed to continue there.

22 min: Laimer finds a pocket of space just inside the Real half, and suddenly the hosts are on the retreat. He’s got Sane to his right, and should release him into the box, but the pass is woeful and Sane can only extend a desperate leg that deflects the ball out for a goal kick.

20 min: Valverde, having recently been dispossessed by Laimer, clips his opponent from behind. He’s fortunate not to go into the book. That challenge looked fuelled by a rush of blood to the temples.

18 min: A period of Bayern possession is met with a soundtrack of irritated whistling.

16 min: Sane races into the Real box from the right. He’s got options in the middle but slices his pass, allowing the Real defence to clear the dollied ball.

15 min: Vinícius Júnior tries a curler from the other side this time. High and wide. But that previous passage of play was super weird. Rüdiger was chasing after Dier’s clearance while his team-mates were launching an attack with a different ball!

13 min: A really strange passage of play as Dier launches a long clearance up the Bayern left. The ball rolls into the Real half. But it’s gone out at some point along its route, and Real take a quick throw with another ball. Vinícius Júnior picks up possession just inside the Bayern box on the right and shoots low. Neuer tips the ball onto the far post and away. Rodrygo hammers the rebound goalwards but Neuer parries that too. Just as well that didn’t go in, because the referee would have had some unpicking to do!

12 min: … so having said that, the pace drops a little and everyone gets patient.

10 min: It’s pretty open for a Champions League semi. Both teams look ready and willing to attack whenever they can.

8 min: Now it’s Bayern’s turn to come close! A bit of space for Gnabry down the left. He whistles a low cross through the six-yard box, but Kane can’t reach it at the far stick. Somewhere in a parallel universe, toenails remain uncut and it’s already 1-1.

6 min: Carvajal fires a low diagonal cross through the Bayern box from a deep position on the right. It’s a sensational ball and Rodrygo should poke home at the near post but somehow he misses it. Then Bellingham goes over in the presence of Kimmich, but though he claims a penalty, he’s gone down far too theatrically and he’s getting nowt.

5 min: Dier and Tchouameni take turns to ship possession easily. Rodrygo and Kane respectively fail to gain any sort of advantage. All a wee bit scrappy so far.

4 min: … but apart from that one speculative Bayern ball, it’s been all Real in the opening exchanges. Bayern happy enough to let them play it around the back.

2 min: Sane tries to bring down a long pass but Mendy hassles him from behind and the Bayern man loses control.

38 sec: Kroos, making his 150th Champions League appearance tonight, sends in an aimless corner. Bayern clear their lines easily.

14 sec: Vinícius Júnior immediately snaffles the ball and tears down the left touchline to win the first corner of the evening. From which …

Bayern get the ball rolling! It’s loud.

The teams are out! The atmosphere electric. The stands awash with purple and white cards. The colour scheme is a switcheroo from the first leg: Real Madrid in white, Bayern Munich in black. We’ll be off once Zadok the Priest (Version) is spun. “The German visitors must be slightly miffed that the only umlauts in the starting lineup belong to one of the Spanish hosts’ players, Antonio Rüdiger,” writes Peter Oh. “I’m no Thomas Tuchel but I believe he has made a (dia)critical tactical mistake in not starting Thomas Müller.”

Bad news for Bayern! Real Madrid have won all five European ties in which they’ve drawn 2-2 in their away first leg. The last time it happened, against Dynamo Moscow in the 1994-95 Uefa Cup second round, they won the return match 4-0 at the Bernabeu.

Great news for Bayern! This is only the second time the Germans have drawn a first-leg European tie 2-2, and they’re currently one for one, as they beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou in the semi-final second-leg of the 1995-96 Uefa Cup, a trophy they went on to win.

As-yet-undetermined news for Bayern! Something’s got to give.

Sid sets the scene.

Real Madrid make one change to the XI that started the first leg. Dani Carvajal comes in for Lucas Vázquez, who drops to the bench.

Bayern make three changes to their starting line-up of last Tuesday. Matthijs de Ligt returns from injury in place of the hapless Kim Min-jae, while Serge Gnabry and 20-year-old defensive midfielder Aleksandar Pavlovic replace Thomas Müller and Leon Goretzka. All three of the men stood down are on the bench.

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