Special nights at the Bernabéu
Special nights at the Bernabéu Bayern will travel to the legendary Estadio Santiago Bernabéu once again on 7 April for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Real Madrid. The stadium has been the site of some of the greatest clashes in European football between the Munich and Madrid giants. 31 March 1976: Real Madrid 1-1 Bayern – European Cup semi-final One of the most important goals in Bayern’s history was in fact not captured on film.
After Madrid’s Roberto Martínez missed a chance to score in the 43rd minute, the camera was still focused on his despair as Munich launched a counter-attack and Gerd Müller slotted home a cross from Franz ‘Bulle’ Roth . It levelled the score at 1-1 and broke the spirit of the previously dominant hosts. Bayern had won the European Cup in the previous two years; nothing could rattle them.
After the final whistle, a Madrid fan knocked Müller to the ground with a punch. He didn’t complain but got his own back in the return leg with a brace to secure a 2-0 victory. Bayern went on to lift the trophy for the third time in a row.
22 April 1987: Real Madrid 1-0 Bayern – European Cup semi-final It felt like nothing could go wrong. But what does that really mean when you’re up against Real Madrid, in front of 100,000 spectators? Bayern had won the first leg of their semi-final tie 4-1 at the Olympic Stadium, after Madrid’s Juanito was shown a red card in the first half for one of the most brutal fouls in football history, kicking Lothar Matthäus in the head.
In the return leg, the Reds faced a relentless onslaught from Los Blancos . Klaus Augenthaler scored an own goal, was sent off in the 30th minute and despaired in the dressing room. “I took a few showers, had a smoke,” he revealed afterwards.
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