Key events
67 min Coman cuts inside from the left and works the space for a stinging long-range shot that is well held by Schmeichel.
66 min Nicolas Kuhn spent two years in the third tier with Bayern’s second team before moving on. And I’m very pleased to report there was none of that ostentatious non-celebration nonsense; he punched the air with the kind of euphoria most of us will never know.
65 min: Double substitution for Bayern Leroy Sane and Alphonso Davies replaces Serge Gnabry and Raphael Guerreiro.
The goal came from Daizen Maeda’s pressing; of course it did. He forced a loose square pass from Stanisic, chased the ball himself and slipped an angled pass through to Kuhn. He rode a frankly woolly challenge from Kim on the edge of the area and calmly arrowed the ball past Neuer. Wow.
GOAL! Bayern 0-1 Celtic (agg: 2-2; Kuhn 63)
Nicolas Kuhn has scored for Celtic!
62 min Whatever happens from here, this performance supports Brendan Rodgers’ pre-match assertion that Celtic have grown in Europe this season. It’s only a few months since they lost 7-1 in Dortmund FHS.
Atalanta 1-3 Club Brugge (agg: 2-5) “Not to count chickens before they hatch,” writes Kári Tulinius, “but if Club Brugge make the round of 16, it’ll be the first time since the 1992-93 Champions League, when all it took was beating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 1st round. It would be a huge achievement for the Belgian side.”
Any excuse.
60 min: Celtic substitution Adam Idah replaces Jota, which means Maeda will move back to the left wing.
59 min Musiala shoots a few yards wide from the edge of the area. Schmeichel had it covered.
58 min Celtic are still in this, though they are struggling to create chances. I forgot to say that, just before Goretzka’s chance, Hatate was crowded out in the Bayern area after a promising run. But since then Bayern’s defence have been comfortable.
57 min “Why are so many teenagers making footie headlines these days?” fumes Justin Kavanagh. “Have they not got snooker halls and back alleys to frequent, and down-at-heel pubs to waste days mitched off school in? Honestly, I despair of the younger generation.”
It’s woke gone mad.
55 min Kimmich’s deep cross is screwed into the side netting by Stanisic, who was trying to knock it back across the face of goal.
53 min No official word on whether Harry Kane is injured, but you’d imagine that’s the case.
GOAL! Benfica 1-2 Monaco (agg: 2-2; Ben Seghir 52) It’s all happening. Monaco have come from 2-0 down on aggregate to level through Eliesse Ben Seghir.
50 min Serge Gnabry is now playing up front, since you asked, with the substitute Coman on the left.
49 min Bayern’s tempo has been better since half-time. Olise cuts inside with menace but curls well wide of the far post.
GOAL! Atalanta 1-3 Club Brugge (agg: 2-5; Lookman 46) Ademola Lookman, brought on at half-time, has scored in the first minute of the second half to give Atalanta an outside chance of a miracle. We’ve seen crazier comebacks in the Champions League.
47 min: Fine save by Schmeichel! A sliderule angled pass from Kingsley Coman allows Leon Goretzka to gallop through on goal in the inside-left channel. Schmeichel flies off his line and spreads himself, star jump-style, to make a terrific block. Schmeichel by name, Schmeichel by nature, to nick that old Clive Tyldesley line about Carl Hoddle.
Kane taken off at half-time
46 min The second half is under way. Bayern have brought on Kingsley Coman for Harry Kane.
Half-time reading
GOAL! Atalanta 0-3 Club Brugge (agg: 1-5) Scenes upon scenes in Bergamo, where the former Barcelona forward Ferran Jutgla has smashed Brugge into a 5-1 aggregate lead. This, lest we forget, is the tie between the teams that finished 9th and 24th respectively in the league stage.
Half time: Bayern Munich 0-0 Celtic (agg: 2-1)
Fascinating stuff at the Allianz Arena. Celtic could have been 3-0 up missed three excellent chances in the first 18 minutes, and that seemed to spook Bayern into playing a more cautious possession game. They were still the dominant side, of course they were, and Harry Kane hit the crossbar just before half-time. Butthe tree saves Kasper Schmeichel had to make were relatively comfortable.
45 min: Kane hits the bar! Bayern almost score on the stroke of half-time, just as they did in the first leg. Stanisic moved down the right and arrowed a low cross back towards Kane, who manufactured a bit of space near the penalty spot. He swept a first-time shot across goal and it clattered off the crossbar. Kane would score that maybe seven times out of 10.
41 min There are audible groans from the home fans when Gnabry overhits a relatively simple through pass to Goretzka.
41 min Despite the frustration of those missed chances, Brendan Rodgers would surely take this scoreline at half-time. To borrow (and probably mangle) Steve Coppell’s line about Crystal Palace’s epic FA Cup semi-final win over Liverpool in 1990, just take the game as deep as possible and let human nature take over.
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38 min: Half chance for Bayern Even when Bayern are playing badly… Olise moves elegantly into the area from the right and lays the ball off to Stanisic. He can’t make his mind up or sort his feet out and is challenged. The ball rolls to Kimmich, who sidefoots wide from in the D.
36 min Bayern look like a team for whom defeat is so unthinkable – because of their lead from the first leg lead, because this seaosn’s final is in Munich – that they can’t stop thinking about it.
34 min “Celtic could be 3-0 up?” sniffs Damian Clarke. “Noooo. Cause and effect, cause and effect. One down and everything after changes. Makes my teeth itch. (Been a bad day, sorry.)”
It’s woke gone mad! That’s a fair point, and I can empathise with the itchy teeth. I don’t recognise the person who wrote that comment but I will attempt to take the learnings from this experience and do better next time.
33 min Celtic’s defensive shape has been really good. They’re picking their moments to press, a tactic that worked superbly in the first 20 minutes in particular.
GOAL! Benfica 1-1 Monaco (Minamino 32; agg: 2-1)
31 min Musiala’s long-range shot is saved comfortably by Schmeichel.
30 min Sorry, back to this game. Celtic continue to look far more comfortable than they did in the first half last week. Gnabry tries to change that with an angled run and shot that is well blocked by Schlupp.
GOAL! Atalanta 0-2 Club Brugge (Talbi 27) My days, this is turning into a miserable night for Serie A. AC Milan have been eliminated by Feyenoord and now Atalanta are 2-0 down at home to Club Brugge. The teenager Chemsdine Talbi has scored both goals and will be the subject of a £70m bid from at least one Premier League club in the next 24 hours.
27 min Bayern are probing patiently. They are still huge favourites, but those Celtic chances will have given them pause.
