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Luis Diaz and Michael Olise fired Bayern Munich past 10-man Real Madrid and into a Champions League semi-final showdown with Paris St Germain in a dramatic conclusion to a pulsating tie.
Less than three minutes after Madrid substitute Eduardo Camavinga had been sent off, Diaz drilled home his side’s third equaliser before Olise struck in stoppage time to clinch a 4-3 win on the night.
The victory extended Bayern’s unbeaten run to 16 games in all competitions and sealed a 6-4 aggregate triumph, a first over the Spanish giants in a two-legged tie since 2012.
On a night when the 15-times winners were made to pay for indiscipline – Arda Guler was also dismissed after the final whistle – the game remained in the melting pot throughout.
Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer’s uncharacteristic blunder just 35 seconds after kick-off allowed Guler to fire the visitors in front, but Aleksandar Pavlovic’s sixth-minute equaliser set the stage for a gloriously-open encounter.
Guler’s stunning free-kick levelled the aggregate scores once again, but Harry Kane’s 50th goal of the season restored the hosts’ advantage before Kylian Mbappe struck for the 15th time in this season’s competition.
However, Camavinga’s second yellow card sparked a late collapse in which Diaz and Olise found the quality to win it.
Whatever game-plan Bayern boss Vincent Kompany had drawn up was thrown out of the window inside the opening minutes when 40-year-old keeper Neuer, whose display in Madrid had done so much to earn his team their slim advantage, handed the visitors a route back into the tie.
Controlling a back-pass, he inexplicably delivered the ball straight to Guler, whose instinctive left-footed finish sailed into the unguarded net.
But Neuer’s side levelled on the night when opposite number Andriy Lunin made a complete mess of trying to get to Joshua Kimmich’s sixth-minute corner and Pavlovic headed home the equaliser from point-blank range.
The two keepers were busy throughout, but Neuer was picking the ball out of his net for a second time when Guler curled a superb 29th-minute free-kick into the top corner after Konrad Laimer had brought down Brahim Diaz 25 yards out.
Bayern were back in it once again seven minutes before the break when Kane controlled Dayot Upamecano’s pass before stroking the ball past the keeper.
Vinicius Junior went desperately close to a third goal when his shot came back off the crossbar after he had out-paced Upamecano.
But the visitors were not to be denied and – with three minutes of the half remaining and Josip Stanisic injured deep inside enemy territory – Jude Bellingham fed Vinicius, who ran away from Jonathan Tah and squared for Mbappe, who needed no second invitation.
It took a brilliant reaction save from Neuer to keep out Mbappe’s 55th-minute volley from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s raking pass and Lunin tipped away Olise’s attempt as the game remained in the balance.
But Camavinga’s 86th-minute dismissal for a second bookable offence severely dented Madrid’s hopes and they were punished within three minutes when Diaz fired past Lunin, with the help of a deflection off Eder Militao, before Olise matched his feat with an even sweeter strike from the other flank, with the final kick of the game.
