MADRID, 29 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Champions League semi-final tie that Bayern Munich and Real Madrid will experience starting this Tuesday can be considered a ‘classic’ of the Old Continent, with both teams meeting each other for the thirteenth time in a tie in the highest competition continental, and with the Madrid team now being a ‘black beast’ for the Bavarian.
Two ‘dinosaurs’ of continental football who already know and fear each other, and who before this crossing have already played a total of 26 games, starring in always exciting qualifying rounds that have left great moments, although, curiously, never in a final. The merengue team has managed to turn around a negative history and has won the last three matches, winning all of them at the Allianz Arena, although they have not seen each other for six years.
The first time that both teams met was in the 1975-76 season, and, after drawing 1-1 at the Bernabéu, on the night of the famous ‘Loco de Chamartín’ who wanted to attack the Austrian referee Linemayer, the Germans with Beckenbauer, Maier , Rummenigge and Muller defeated the Madridistas 2-0 on the way to their third consecutive European Cup.
They did not meet again until the semi-finals of 1987, the first failure in the ‘Quinta del Buitre’ European Cup. In the Olympic, a devastating 4-1 in favor of the Germans, with Juanito’s famous stomp on Matthaus, and a solitary and useless 1-0 in favor of Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.
The following year, and in the quarterfinals, with Jupp Heynckes as coach of the German team, the team led by Leo Beenhakker saved the first leg in the last five minutes with two goals and brought a 3-2 loss to Madrid where they came back thanks 2-0 with goals from Jankovic and Míchel.
From then on, they did not see each other again until the 21st century. Thus, the Munich team was on the path to the ‘Octava’ on two occasions. First in the second group stage, with a spectacular record for the Bavarian team with victories in Munich (4-1) and at the Bernabéu (2-4). But the whites knew how to return the coin in the semifinals, with a victory in Chamartín (2-0) that they knew how to make profitable in Germany (2-1), with the leading role of Nicolás Anelka, scorer of two of the three white goals.
Since then, five more qualifying rounds. The first in favor of Bayern, in the semifinals of the 2000-01 season, winning at the Bernabéu (0-1) and at the Olympic Stadium (2-1), and then adding their fourth European Cup by defeating Valencia on penalties. the San Siro final.
The next two for the Madridistas. In the 2002 quarterfinals, with a defeat in Munich (2-1) and a comeback at the Bernabéu (2-0), in the match remembered for the bravado of Oliver Khan, ensuring that his rival would not score two goals, and in the round of 16 in 2004, with Peruvian Claudio Pizarro saying ‘We are going to score five goals against those clowns’. Then, there was a draw at the Olympic Stadium (1-1), where Roberto Carlos was sent off after a ‘raffle’ with the now Malaguista Martin Demichelis, and a narrow victory (1-0) in the second leg with a goal from Zinédine Zidane.
In the 2006-2007 season they met again at the first crossing of the tournament. Real Madrid won at the Bernabéu 3-2, with Mark van Bommel scoring the second goal for the visitors, and the German victory 2-1, with Roy Makaay’s memorable goal after ten seconds, the fastest in the history of the Champions League, cut short Madrid’s continental dream.
And after that almost regular date in the ‘Champions’, it took five seasons for them to meet again, in the semifinals of the 2011-2012 continental tournament, favorable again for Bayern, who won at the Allianz Arena by 2-1, with a goal in the final minutes by Mario Gómez, a result that was repeated at the Bernabéu, where Neuer saved Kaká and Cristiano’s penalties, and Ramos sent his own away, to condemn Real Madrid to a new and painful elimination.
Two years later, they met again in the 2013-2014 semifinals, with Carlo Ancelotti on the Merengue bench and Pep Guardiola on the Bavarian team. Real Madrid won the first leg in the capital with a goal from Benzema and then had one of its greatest European nights by winning the second leg 0-4 at the Allianz Arena with doubles from Ramos and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The man from Reggiolo experienced the opposite side in the 2016-2017 campaign when he coached Bayern and met his disciple Zinédine Zidane in the quarterfinals. The then current champion attacked the Allianz Arena again (1-2), but suffered on the return to the Bernabéu where an extra time was needed for the 4-2 victory of the merengue team, which would later make history by being the first to repeat qualification.
Their last duel in the top continental competition was the following season and again with the ticket to the final at stake. The first leg was in Munich and Real Madrid was able to come back again and win in the Bavarian fiefdom by 1-2. In the second leg, Jupp Heynckes’ Bayern pushed again, but Zidane’s men held on and signed a two-goal draw that gave them a place in the final and their subsequent treble.