Jupp Heynckes says Real Madrid should worry about Robert Lewandowski just as much as Bayern Munich will be focused on stopping Cristiano Ronaldo in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg.
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“This is why I came to the biggest club in the world”, Bale said, after helping Real reach their first Champions League final in 12 years.
Ronaldo could even play up front on us his own in Munich, with Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale both potentially left on the bench as Zidane goes for a 4-5-1 shape specially organised to supply him with as many penalty area chances as possible to nab a crucial away goal. “To win trophies and play in massive games”.
“He was a little depressed”, Heynckes told reporters at his pre-match news conference.
The German side head into the crunch last four clash after having booked their place in the semi-finals thanks to victory over Sevilla over two legs in the quarter-finals.
The Bundesliga champions have won their last three matches, seeing off Borussia Monchengladbach, Bayer Leverkusen, and Hannover 96 in spectacular fashion, scoring a massive 14 goals in the process. He scored five goals over two legs in Madrid’s 6-3 aggregate win over Bayern in the 2017 quarter-finals.
The sub-plot of James is one of many intertwined between Real and Bayern.
The German worldwide, however, admitted that their Champions League clash with Bayern will not be easy for the La Liga champions.
One reporter asked him about memories of previous battles between the two giants of the game and said: ‘In Germany they used to say that every time Real Madrid came here they would s*** their pants’.
Wednesday’s game should be Heynckes’s last European night at the Allianz Arena, although that’s a unsafe assumption with a man who has become like a reliable heavyweight champ, tempted out of retirement and into the red corner for just one more bout.
“I adore football and, if I do a job, I do it 100 per cent”, he said here. “In these types of games we’ll be 150% up for, there’s no question about that”.
“I don’t think there are any favourites”.
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“We know it will be very hard, but we’ve already beaten Paris (Saint-Germain) and Juventus on our way here”.
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Roberto Firmino assisted Salah’s two opening goals, which saw the Egyptian breaking Samuel Eto’o’s record for the most goals scored by an African during a single Champions League campaign. “And Bayern is not just a good team, it’s a great club”.
