Bayern reason off Sevilla to strech final 4 again
Bayern are by to a sixth UEFA Champions League semi-final in 7 seasons after a battling opening opposite a Sevilla side who refused to go down yet a fight.
The hosts only about edged it throughout, yet it was JoaquÃn Correa went closest to a idea on a hour in Munich. Rising above Jérôme Boateng, a striker met Jesús Navas’s mouth-watering cranky with a header that kick Sven Ulreich yet not a bar.
That would have set adult a grandstand finale. Instead Bayern simply battened down a hatches and rode it out, yet had Robert Lewandowski had his eye in it could all have been rather some-more comfortable. In a week when favourites tags were ripped to shreds, a German champions finished it during least.
Key player: David Soria (Sevilla)
What a conspicuous spin of events for a keeper. In European terms winning a UEFA Europa League final in 2016 had been bittersweet in a extreme. A quip win, a award and afterwards banishment. No serve continental football until final week. Domestically? Benched given December. Suddenly he was hauled out of obscurity, conceded 6 times in his initial dual remember defeats before an stern wall of rebuttal here to repay his coach. Football, eh?
Reporter articulate points
Jordan Maciel, Bayern: Bayern got a pursuit finished in a end, yet will not be assured with their restored performance. Had Sevilla been some-more clinical, they could have been punished. Whatever happens, worse opponents wait in a final 4 and they will need to lift their diversion if they wish to strech a initial final given 2013.
Graham Hunter, Sevilla: Pride yet no prize. This was a genuine enrichment of learning. The oppressive lessons schooled final week were fast digested and applied. Better in possession, quicker opposite a turf, cleverer in positional comprehension and, above all, quietly confident. No goals and so no comeback. But a mature opening opposite a German champions, Correa’s late red label excluded.
Key stats
- Bayern allege to their 19th European Cup semi-final
- Bayern are 20 games dominant during home in all competitions this season
- Jérôme Boateng, Thomas Müller play 100th UEFA bar foe matches
- Bayern’s seven-game winning run in a foe comes to an end
- Jupp Heynckes’s record run of 12 unbroken Champions League wins halted
- Heynckes on march to continue 100% record of reaching UEFA Champions League final (3/3)