Try the very best details and Opta knowledge from a dramatic Champions League play-off in Germany with our Bayern Munich vs Celtic stats web page.
Celtic suffered probably the most heart-breaking of defeats as Alphonso Davies bundled house a 94th-minute winner to ship Bayern Munich into the Champions League spherical of 16.
It had been an evening of toiling in entrance of objective for the German giants, who had been large favourites to progress after profitable the primary leg in Glasgow, however finally they acquired the draw that took them by way of to the knockouts.
They barely deserved to undergo, although. Celtic have been large underdogs however created the higher possibilities and got here inside seconds of taking the sport to extra-time with what would have been the primary ever win for a Scottish facet in opposition to Bayern.
Though the sport rapidly settled right into a predictable sample of Bayern monopolising possession, it was Celtic who created the higher openings. Inside the primary 18 minutes, Callum McGregor blazed over when by way of on objective, Nicolas Kühn had an enormous probability cleared off the road by Raphaël Guerreiro, Arne Engels put a ball agonisingly throughout the face of the Bayern objective, and Daizen Maeda wasted an enormous alternative.
It rapidly turned obvious that Celtic may very well be made to remorse losing these early possibilities. Bayern grew into the sport, and Harry Kane very practically made the guests pay, beating Kasper Schmeichel within the Celtic objective solely to be denied by the woodwork.
Celtic have been handed a lift when Bayern misplaced Kane to a knock at half-time, however Bayern remained the extra dominant facet. Nonetheless, they struggled to create many clear openings, and after a break of 45 minutes with no shot, Celtic lastly created one other alternative, and it was a telling one.
Maeda performed a ball ahead, and after Kim Min-Jae made a horrible mess of what appeared a easy clearance, Kühn was allowed in on objective to provide Celtic an unlikely lead on the evening.
He turned the primary German to attain in opposition to Bayern within the Champions League since Mërgim Berisha for FC Crimson Bull Salzburg in November 2020 and the primary to take action within the knockout phases since Lukas Podolski for Arsenal in March 2014 (final 16).
From then on it was nearly all Bayern, however they appeared just a little misplaced with out a focus up entrance after Kane’s withdrawal. Most of their pictures got here from distance and have been blocked by a dedicated Celtic rearguard.
On the demise, although, Schmeichel may solely parry a Leon Goretzka header from point-black vary and Davies piled in to nudge the ball into the web. Clocked at 93.12, it was the most recent equalising objective in regular time in a Champions League sport on file (since 2003-04).
That was the to be the final of the motion, that means Celtic crash out of Europe, and Bayern stumble by way of to the knockouts, the place they’ll face both Bayer Leverkusen or Atlético Madrid.
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Bayern Munich vs Celtic: Submit-Match Information
Bayern Munich have reached the Champions League spherical of 16 in every of the final 17 seasons (since and together with 2008-09) and in every of their final 21 appearances within the competitors.
Alphonso Davies’ equaliser (93:12) was Bayern Munich’s newest equalising objective in a Champions League sport (excluding additional time) on file (since 2003-04).
Bayern Munich have made extra errors resulting in opposition pictures than some other group within the Champions League this season (13 – 5 within the construct as much as objectives conceded).
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