They must overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid if they are to reach the Champions League final, while they will face Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal showpiece.
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It means they have to beat Atletico by a two-goal margin – something no team has managed to do in any competition since Celta Vigo’s 2-0 home win over Simeone’s side in February 2015.
Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says the side feel cheated after their Champions League semi-final exit at the hands of Atletico Madrid.
Griezmann tucked away Atletico’s first shot on target for the crucial away goal to cancel out Xabi Alonso’s first-half strike.
Manchester United are reportedly targeting a £65m swoop for Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann.
The home side could have scored their second in the first half, but Atletico keeper Jan Oblak did well to save Thomas Muller’s penalty, with half time showing a match tied on aggregate. We missed one more goal in the game today.
Bayern needed one more goal to avoid going out at the semifinal stage for the third straight season to a Spanish team and poured everything forward – only to be denied by Oblak and his defenders.
But Torres’s attempt was saved by Manuel Neuer to keep Bayern’s chances alive.
Diego Simeone: “We were sharp in the first leg and we will see how sharp we are tomorrow; and how sharp Bayern are”.
“We’re delighted. It was difficult, a really hard game, we had a great opponent in front of us and we had to both defend and try to score”.
In the first half, it was all Bayern as they kept Atletico on their heels for the majority of the 45 minutes.
Torres said: “As always we will go to win. We’ll have to be patient”, Boateng said.
Bayern pushed for a second goal before the break and thought they would have it when Javi Martinez was brought down by Gimenez in the box to earn a penalty three minutes later.
“It’s a bitter result that we haven’t been able to reward ourselves and the coaching staff for the work over the last three years”.
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Simeone should be able to welcome back Diego Godin to his starting XI, while Yannick Carrasco took part in training over the weekend and could feature.
