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Bayern Munich<\/strong> had not won at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u since May 2001, when they beat Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final on their way to becoming European champions. . Tuesday night\u2019s match changed all that<\/a>. The 29th Champions League meeting between the teams lived up to its heavyweight billing, though Bayern, superior on the night, may rue their failure to add to their 2-1 lead. Real Madrid meanwhile could point to Manuel Neuer making nine saves \u2013 not bad for a 40-year-old. \u201cWe won\u2019t win the competition without more of these kinds of performances,\u201d said Bayern manager Vincent Kompany of his keeper. Big trophies are rarely won without great goalkeepers and Neuer continues to play like an all-time great. Bayern\u2019s second goal was a trademark finish from Harry Kane, who made the difficult look easy. The goal will also have calmed England fans\u2019 fears that their captain will arrive at the World Cup suffering from his usual summer malaise. A word too for Luis D\u00edaz and Michael Olise, Bayern\u2019s brilliant wingers whose performances brought back memories of the club\u2019s modern greats Franck Rib\u00e9ry and Arjen Robben. Kompany\u2019s team were commanding in Madrid, but may fear the backlash from the 15-times champions, the kings of comebacks.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week\u2019s quarter-finals provided some classic action as this season\u2019s competition hurtles towards its conclusion Bayern Munich had not won at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u since May 2001, when they beat Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final on their way to becoming European champions. . Tuesday night\u2019s match changed all that. The 29th Champions League … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}