Harry Kane referred to as on Bayern Munich to push on after a dramatic Champions League quarter-final success over Actual Madrid saved 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 peaceful 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 mixture, 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 night time additionally made them simply the second crew to path on three events in a Champions League match and nonetheless emerge victorious, after Manchester United in opposition to Actual Madrid within the 2002-03 quarter-finals (additionally 4-3), although the Crimson Devils misplaced that tie 6-5 on mixture.
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.
“Whenever you beat a crew like Madrid, particularly within the later phases of the Champions League, it gives you confidence,” Kane advised TNT Sports activities.
“However now we have spoken about this all yr, 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 among the best groups in Europe.
“We now have an opportunity to win the league this weekend, so hopefully we are able to get that performed and now we have an enormous semi-final within the cup. There are many huge video games lots to play for.”
The England captain scored Bayern’s second aim of the sport, taking him to 50 in all competitions this season. He’s the primary participant web 50 occasions in a single marketing campaign for a crew 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 in opposition to Madrid – the outright longest streak by any participant in opposition to them.
Madrid had been enraged by the choice to ship Camavinga off, however Kane mentioned they might don’t have any complaints after the midfielder picked up the ball to forestall a fast restart.
“There have been selections that went in opposition to us the entire sport and the principles are the principles,” he mentioned when requested concerning 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 right this moment.”
Olise, who sauntered inside from the suitable flank earlier than discovering the top-left nook for his aim, echoed these sentiments and prompt Bayern would have gone on to win the tie whatever the sending off.
“It was a superb match, forwards and backwards,” he mentioned. “We knew they might attempt to come again. At first, it was a bit like aim, aim, aim, however finally when it calmed down, we performed a bit higher within the second half and we took our probabilities.
“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 sport was nonetheless going the way it was going.”
Bayern face Stuttgart within the Bundesliga on Sunday, once they may win the title relying on outcomes elsewhere, earlier than dealing with Bayer Leverkusen within the DFB-Pokal semi-finals.
