England 3 Germany 0. For the third time in this Champions League knockout round, the elite of the Premier League proved superior to their Bundesliga equivalents.
Yet, for all of Manchester City’s ten goal aggregate and Tottenham’s home and away wins over Borussia Dortmund, this result was the pick of them all. Bayern Munich are European royalty with all the sense of entitlement and privilege that entails. No sooner have they hit the top of the domestic league than the talk begins of trebles.
The German Cup and, of course, this: the club championship of Europe. There were 70,000 in the Allianz Arena expecting only one outcome. Yet Liverpool have a historic attachment to this competition, too.
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