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The players connected a yellowish card
There are a few, including immoderate large hitters.
Real Madrid Huijsen, Carreras, Tchouameni, Vinicius Jr, Mbappe, Bellingham.
Bayern Munich Laimer, Upamecano.
Team news
Real Madrid make 3 changes to nan broadside that won 2-1 astatine nan Etihad successful their past Champions League game: Andriy Lunin, Alvaro Carreras and Kylian Mbappe switch Thibaut Courtois, Fran Garcia and Brahim Diaz. That intends Jude Bellingham, who has only precocious returned from injury, stays connected nan bench.
Bayern’s squad is arsenic expected, pinch 2 changesfrom nan first limb of their 10-2 aggregate triumph complete Atalanta. (They picked a number of second-string players for nan 2nd limb and frankly there’s nary constituent listing them each arsenic they were ne'er apt to commencement coming and astir of them are connected nan chair anyway.) Manuel Neuer and Harry Kane switch Jonas Urbig and Nicolas Jackson.
One conflict to look retired for: Trent Alexander-Arnold is up against his aged Liverpool teammate Luis Diaz.
Real Madrid (4-3-3) Lunin; Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Huijsen, Carreras; Valverde, Tchouameni, Pitarch; Guler, Mbappe, Vinicius Jr.
Subs: Gonzalez, Carvajal, Eder Militao, Alaba, Bellingham, Camavinga, Gonzalo Garcia, Asencio, Ceballos, Francisco Garcia, Diaz, Mastantuono.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1) Neuer; Stanisic, Upamecano, Tah, Laimer; Kimmich, Pavlovic; Olise, Gnabry, Diaz; Kane.
Subs: Urbig, Kim, Goretzka, Musiala, Jackson, Davies, Bischof, Ito, Guerreiro, Osmani, Karl
Referee Michael Oliver.
Kane starts for Bayern
Harry Kane, who was doubtful for nan game, is successful nan Bayern XI. We’ll person nan afloat squad news successful a second.
Preamble
Hello, buenas noches, guten abend, and invited to unrecorded sum of Real Madrid v Bayern Munich successful nan Champions League quarter-finals. Just arsenic everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, truthful each shot title needs a clásico: an impossible-to-overhype-but-let’s-bloody-well-try title betwixt 2 elephantine teams. Hell, past play location were 4 clásicos connected Hackney Marshes alone!*
With apologies to AC Milan, Joseph Bloggs and others, Real v Bayern is nan clásico of European football. This is their 29th gathering and 14th two-legged tie, some Uefa records, and each person taken spot successful nan European Cup aliases Champions League. In 8 of nan erstwhile 13 ties, nan victor went each nan measurement that season.
It would beryllium unwise to make specified an presumption astir this year’s tie, fixed nan value elsewhere successful nan competition, but whoever emerges from this heavyweight title will understandably person nan whiff of destiny successful their nostrils.
Most group person Bayern arsenic favourites: they vanished 2nd successful nan convention phase, 7 places up of Real, and are gallivanting to different Bundesliga title. Real, by contrast, mislaid to Mallorca astatine nan play and are 7 points down Barcelona successful La Liga.
Form, logic, reason, sanity: they seldom get a look-in erstwhile Real Madrid play successful nan Champions League. Anything could happen, which is conscionable nan measurement we for illustration it up of a clásico.
Kick disconnected 8pm.
* We whitethorn and so person made this up
