Harry Kane known as on Bayern Munich to push on after a dramatic Champions League quarter-final success over Actual Madrid stored their treble hopes alive.
Boasting a 2-1 lead from the primary leg in Spain, Bayern had been initially rocked as Arda Guler’s brace and a relaxed end from Kylian Mbappe gave Madrid a 3-2 half-time lead in Wednesday’s second leg.
With the tie poised at 4-4 on combination, Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga was despatched off for 2 bookable offences – the second being an pointless warning for timewasting – and Bayern made Los Blancos pay.
Luis Diaz and Michael Olise struck late on to push Bayern into their twenty second European Cup or Champions League semi-final, with solely Madrid reaching that stage extra typically (33).
Bayern’s 4-3 win on the evening additionally made them simply the second workforce to path on three events in a Champions League match and nonetheless emerge victorious, after Manchester United towards Actual Madrid within the 2002-03 quarter-finals (additionally 4-3), although the Pink Devils misplaced that tie 6-5 on combination.
And with a blockbuster assembly with Paris Saint-Germain awaiting Bayern within the final 4, Kane says he and his team-mates will relish the approaching weeks.
“While you beat a workforce like Madrid, particularly within the later phases of the Champions League, it will provide you with confidence,” Kane informed TNT Sports activities.
“However we’ve got spoken about this all 12 months, being at this stage and being in all of the competitions… that is the time to push on.
“We really feel we are able to beat anybody when at our highest degree and we’ll want that within the subsequent spherical as a result of PSG are probably the greatest groups in Europe.
“Now we have an opportunity to win the league this weekend, so hopefully we are able to get that carried out and we’ve got a giant semi-final within the cup. There are many massive video games a lot to play for.”
The England captain scored Bayern’s second purpose of the sport, taking him to 50 in all competitions this season. He’s the primary participant internet 50 occasions in a single marketing campaign for a workforce in Europe’s high 5 leagues since Erling Haaland for Manchester Metropolis in 2022-23 (52).
Kane has additionally scored (thrice) or assisted (three) in every of his final 5 Champions League video games towards Madrid – the outright longest streak by any participant towards them.
Madrid had been enraged by the choice to ship Camavinga off, however Kane mentioned they may don’t have any complaints after the midfielder picked up the ball to forestall a fast restart.
“There have been choices that went towards us the entire recreation and the foundations are the foundations,” he mentioned when requested in regards to the purple card.
“It was a transparent yellow card, I’ve had a few these in my profession which have affected me. The referee has to decide there, and it went our method in the present day.”
Olise, who sauntered inside from the fitting flank earlier than discovering the top-left nook for his purpose, echoed these sentiments and instructed Bayern would have gone on to win the tie whatever the sending off.
“It was a very good match, forwards and backwards,” he mentioned. “We knew they might attempt to come again. At first, it was a bit like purpose, purpose, purpose, however ultimately when it calmed down, we performed a bit higher within the second half and we took our possibilities.
“The purple card was late on. We had constructed momentum earlier than that, the sport was going our method. Possibly it helped a bit, however the recreation was nonetheless going the way it was going.”
Bayern face Stuttgart within the Bundesliga on Sunday, once they might win the title relying on outcomes elsewhere, earlier than dealing with Bayer Leverkusen within the DFB-Pokal semi-finals.
