Germany mourned dashed hopes for an all-German Champions League last after Bayern Munich’s calamitous 2-1 defeat at Real Madrid, and a 4-3 loss on mixture, with the Spanish aspect now occurring to face Borussia Dortmund in London on 1 June.
Bild gave a minute-by-minute account of the agony earlier than the “bitter defeat simply earlier than the tip”.
“Then got here the double-shock of a blunder by [the goalkeeper Manuel] Neuer and a last-minute knockout in stoppage time,” the each day stated. “The dream of German Wembley 2.0 is over.” A reprise of the 2013 final there between Bayern and Dortmund had been on the playing cards.
Welt famous the merciless repeat of historical past for Bayern: “Twenty-five years after the unforgettable 2-1 defeat in the final in opposition to Manchester United, Bayern skilled one other 2-1 Champions League drama.”
It stated Madrid had clearly proven “extra momentum and energy” in opposition to the injury-plagued German aspect.
Thomas Tuchel stated Bayern would want some time to digest the “absolute catastrophe” of a fateful offside call and singled out Neuer for “an error he wouldn’t make in a 100 years” but managed to commit. “The boys are very disenchanted,” he stated, earlier than including: “We left every part on the pitch so no regrets.”
Spiegel blamed Tuchel for last-minute adjustments to the lineup. The coach “reached within the bag of tips earlier than the match and did one thing lengthy frowned upon for the reason that typically failed Champions League experiments of Pep Guardiola: he reconfigured his beginning XI in a serious match.”
Additionally famous by Spiegel was Bayern’s poor monitor file in opposition to Madrid. “Within the final 4 clashes between Actual Madrid and Bayern, Actual and its ‘white ballet’ all the time prevailed,” with the Spanish aspect now favoured to beat Dortmund.
Regardless of the “dreamlike atmosphere” on the Bernabéu, the 4,700 “valiant” Munich followers had been hopelessly outnumbered, Süddeutsche Zeitung stated, describing the “intimidating nature of the acoustics” below the closed stadium roof.
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“Actual Madrid did it once more,” Süddeutsche sighed, pulling out a win within the last minutes with the assistance of a controversial offside name, after a “race to catch up that may go down within the historical past of the Champions League”.
The “aim” by the centre-back Matthijs de Ligt within the 14th minute of added time that will have allowed Bayern to drag stage was disallowed after the referee “instantly whistled the very borderline offside state of affairs”, stopping nearer inspection on the video replay, Süddeutsche stated.
Nonetheless Welt stated the decision had been appropriate on later inspection, capping the primary season since 2012 during which Bayern have didn’t win a trophy and denying the outgoing Tuchel “a triumphant farewell to Munich”.
