HARRY KANE’S Champions League imagination is live and kicking – conscionable – arsenic Bayern Munich scraped past brave Celtic.
Alphonso Davies bundled location from a gait retired astatine the decease to support their hopes of lifting the celebrated trophy for a seventh clip successful their ain metropolis intact.
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However, it was heartbreak for Brendan Rodgers and his broadside aft they missed a big of glorious chances.
England’s apical goalscorer hardly had a interaction earlier helium was taken disconnected astatine the interruption amid fears the facial wounded that kept him retired of grooming connected Monday had flared up again.
He inactive managed to deed the woodwork – but helium and his team-mates were the fortunate ones not to beryllium trailing astatine the interruption arsenic they were astir caught cold.
Celtic made a flying commencement successful trying to unafraid a archetypal knockout necktie successful this contention for 36 years and should person been astatine slightest 2 up wrong the opening 20 minutes.
Captain Callum McGregor sliced implicit aft being sent cleanable done aboriginal on.
The Bhoys carved the hosts wide unfastened again erstwhile Jota flew past Josip Stanisic and pulled it from the near to the unmarked Nicolas Kuhn.
The ex-Bayern ace met it near footed astatine the acold station and bushed Manuel Neuer, but Raphael Guerreiro was capable to wide connected the line.
Vincent Kompany’s broadside were struggling and alarm bells started to ringing arsenic Celtic came adjacent erstwhile more.
Kasper Schmeichel had a superb game
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This clip Kuhn flashed a shot on the beforehand of extremity but team-mate Daizen Maeda was conscionable incapable to reach.
Bayern looked wholly rattled, but erstwhile much the visitors failed to instrumentality vantage erstwhile Maeda changeable wide with a first-time effort to permission Brendan Rodgers tearing his hairsbreadth out.
Kane, chasing his 30th extremity of the season, astir punished Celtic arsenic helium forced his ex-Leicester City team-mate Kasper Schmeichel into action.
Bayern were present starting to get a grip of the crippled with Joshua Kimmich shooting wide from 20 yards.
And Kane, who lone had 10 touches during the opening period, astir broke the deadlock with the past footwear of the fractional arsenic helium rattled the crossbar from 12 yards.
That would beryllium the hotshot’s last enactment arsenic helium was replaced by Kingsley Coman.
Schmeichel produced a captious prevention to contradict Leon Goretzka aft the restart and it proved to beryllium important arsenic Celtic soon stunned the Allianz Arena.
Maeda’s through-ball should person been breadstuff and food for Kim Min-jae, but his mediocre defending was pounced connected by Kuhn arsenic the winger coolly drilled a debased changeable past Neuer.
Celtic were level connected aggregate but they missed different immense accidental to pb the necktie for the archetypal clip erstwhile Japanese ace Maeda’s diving header was consecutive astatine the keeper.
Goretzka and Leroy Sane were some disconnected people arsenic Bayern desperately tried to combat back.
Schmeichel past produced an acrobatic flying prevention to propulsion distant Kimmich’s long-ranger.
Though determination was a cruel twist successful the 4th infinitesimal of added clip erstwhile Schmeichel brilliantly saved from Goretzka’s header, Canadian Davies reacted quickest to smash location and triumph 3-2 connected aggregate.
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