Marco Asensio over Bayern Munich

Full-time: Bayern Munich 1-2 Real Madrid


Peep! Peep! It’s all over at the Allianz Arena, where Real have won their sixth consecutive game against Bayern Munich. They take two away goals home to the Bernabeu, where Bayern Munich will need to score at least two goals to beat them. Stay tuned for post-match reaction and the great Sid Lowe’s on-the-whistle match report. I’ll be intrigued to see what he made of a match that was astonishingly low on quality, but none the poorer for all that.

A quite night from Cristiano Ronaldo: 
Apart from one early decoy run, Real’s star player contributed little or nothing tonight. He had one wild shot early in the second half which threatened to take out a corner flag, then moaned when he was correctly penaltilised for handball after controlling a pass from deep with his arm when he looked clear through on goal.

6 min: Arjen Robben goes down injured and looks fairly forlorn. Javi Martinez signals to the bench that he’ll need to come off; the Dutchman is brought to the touchline to receive treatment and consult with the physios.


29 min: With Marcelo up the field and out of position as Bayern embarked on a counter-attack, Kimmich galloped into the space behind him and picked up the ball. He cut inside towards goal and with Navas presumably expecting him to cross the ball, simply sent a shot fizzing past the goalkeeper at his near post. Navas got a hand to the ball, but couldn’t keep it out.



Bayern lead! another shocker from goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who lets Joshua Kimmich to send the ball fizzing past him at his near post after a gallop down the right flank.

44 min: Marcelo equalises and it’s totally against the run of play. He volleys low and hard into the bottom right-hand corner from 20 yards, converting a header across the box from Dani Carvajal.


56 min: A calamitous error from Rafinha leads to a Real counter-attack that ends with Marco Asensio clipping the ball over Sven Ulreich and into the bottom corner.




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