Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid - prediction, team news, lineups

The 30th Champions League gathering betwixt European heavyweights Bayern Munich and Real Madrid takes centre signifier astatine the Allianz Arena connected Wednesday night.

Vincent Kompany’s broadside participate this mouthwatering quarter-final 2nd limb boasting a one-goal vantage aft winning past week’s archetypal limb 2-1 astatine the Bernabeu.

Match preview

Goals either broadside of fractional clip from Luis Diaz and Harry Kane helped Bayern gain a slender first-leg triumph implicit Real Madrid and ended their nine-game winless tally against the Spanish giants (L7 D2), but a precocious onslaught from Kylian Mbappe has kept the contention live for Alvaro Arbeloa’s side.

The Bavarians volition instrumentality comfortableness from having won 29 of their 30 two-legged ties successful UEFA contention aft winning the archetypal limb connected the road, including 12 retired of 13 erstwhile winning the archetypal limb by a one-goal margin. The lone blot connected their copybook came successful 2010-11 erstwhile Inter Milan came from 1-0 down to triumph 3-2 successful the 2nd limb and advancement from the past 16 connected distant goals.

Kompany’s men followed up their triumph successful Madrid with an emphatic 5-0 distant success implicit St Pauli successful the Bundesliga past Saturday. The reigning German top-flight champions person moved 12 points wide astatine the summit, acknowledgment to second-placed Borussia Dortmund losing to Bayer Leverkusen, and they could clinch yet different rubric arsenic aboriginal arsenic this weekend.

Bayern’s contiguous precedence is the Champions League, though, and progressing to their archetypal semi-final since winning the contention for a sixth clip successful 2019-20. That could beryllium challenging against Real Madrid, fixed they person mislaid 7 of their past 8 UEFA two-legged ties against Spanish teams and 4 of their past 5 specified quarter-finals.

However, the Allianz Arena has go a fortress for Bayern, who person won each 5 European location games this season, averaging 3.2 goals successful those games, and person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 28 UCL location fixtures (W22 D5). They person besides tasted decision conscionable doubly successful 44 matches crossed each competitions successful beforehand of their ain fans, truthful determination is crushed to beryllium optimistic of occurrence connected Tuesday.

Real Madrid look the grim imaginable of a 2nd consecutive play without a large trophy arsenic their run has begun to unravel astatine a important moment, with past week’s first-leg nonaccomplishment to Bayern sandwiched betwixt 2 disappointing La Liga results against Mallorca and Girona.

Six days aft suffering a 2-1 defeat astatine Mallorca, a beardown Los Blancos lineup was held to a 1-1 location gully by Girona past Friday, sparking a chorus of whistles and boos from the Bernabeu faithful astatine afloat time. Real’s latest setback has allowed rubric rivals Barcelona to found a nine-point pb astatine the La Liga acme with 7 games remaining.

Life aft Xabi Alonso has been thing but creaseless for caput manager Arbeloa. A daze Copa del Rey exit astatine the hands of lower-league absorption followed by a stuttering European run person near the 43-year-old nether mounting pressure. With the home rubric present slipping away, Arbeloa has lone 1 paper near to play: the club’s historical quality to alteration nether the agleam lights of the Champions League.

The 15-time European champions person lone prevailed successful 1 of their erstwhile 7 two-legged ties successful UEFA contention aft losing the archetypal limb connected location soil. However, Real Madrid person won each of their past 7 European Cup/Champions League quarter-final ties against German opposition.

Los Blancos person besides won each of their past 9 UEFA two-legged ties against German teams and person been beaten successful conscionable 2 of their past 12 European distant matches against German sides (W7 D3). Against Bayern, Real are unbeaten successful their past 4 games astatine the Allianz Arena (W3 D1) and person not mislaid immoderate of their past 4 UCL two-legged ties with the Bavarians, astir precocious winning 4-3 connected aggregate successful the 2023-24 semi-finals.

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Team News

Bayern Munich volition beryllium without teenage winger Lennart Karl (thigh) and goalkeeper Sven Ulreich (muscle) owed to injury, portion Kane should beryllium acceptable to diagnostic contempt feeling “a fewer reactions” aft the archetypal leg, resulting successful him watching connected arsenic an unused substitute against St Pauli.

Kane, who has registered a extremity oregon an assistance successful each of his past 4 Champions League appearances against Real Madrid, has netted 11 goals successful this season’s contention and is conscionable 1 extremity distant from signaling his champion UCL extremity tally.

Serge Gnabry volition anticipation to person shaken disconnected a insignificant genu contented to commencement alongside Diaz and Michael Olise successful attack, with Jamal Musiala making way, portion Aleksandar Pavlovic volition beryllium pushing to commencement up of Leon Gortezka successful centre-midfield.

Jonathan Tah - who has committed much fouls (21) than immoderate different subordinate successful the Champions League this word - Dayot Upamecano and Josip Stanisic were each rested past play and are expected to instrumentality successful defence to play alongside Konrad Laimer, protecting 40-year-old goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

As for Real Madrid, Thibaut Courtois (thigh) and Rodrygo (ACL) stay sidelined done injury, portion Aurelien Tchouameni picked up his 3rd yellowish paper of the contention successful past week’s archetypal limb and is present suspended for Wednesday’s match.

Mbappe is the Champions League’s apical scorer this word with 14 goals successful conscionable 10 games - lone 3 down the single-season scoring grounds of 17 - but the guardant is presently a insignificant uncertainty for the 2nd limb aft sustaining a facial wounded successful the second stages of the gully with Girona.

If fit, the Frenchman could beryllium joined successful onslaught by Vinicius Junior and either Arda Guler oregon Brahim Diaz, with Goncalo Garcia waiting successful the wings if needed to pb the line.

Eduardo Camavinga oregon 18-year-old Thiago Pitarch Pinar whitethorn commencement successful midfield alongside Federico Valverde and Jude Bellingham successful the lack of Tchouameni, portion Trent Alexander-Arnold, Antonio Rudiger, Dean Huijsen and Alvaro Carreras could each beryllium recalled to the backmost four.

Bayern Munich imaginable starting lineup:

Neuer; Laimer, Upamecano, Tah, Stanisic; Kimmich, Pavlovic; Olise, Gnabry, Diaz; Kane

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Lunin; Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Huijsen, Carreras; Valverde, Camavinga, Bellingham; Guler; Mbappe, Vinicius Jr

We say: Bayern Munich 3-2 Real Madrid (Bayern to triumph 5-3 connected aggregate)

After some falling astatine the quarter-final hurdle successful past season’s Champions League, the unit is connected Bayern and Real Madrid - peculiarly the second - to nutrient a connection show connected Wednesday that volition spell a agelong mode successful helping them unafraid a spot successful the last four.

Time and clip again, Real person defied the likelihood to prevail connected the European stage, and portion Los Blancos clasp the humanities borderline with 13 wins to Bayern’s 12, they whitethorn travel up abbreviated connected this occasion. Indeed, the formidable location grounds of the German juggernauts, combined with an attacking portion successful highest form, suggests that Real’s knack for UCL miracles volition beryllium pushed to its implicit limit.

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