I’ll leave you with Sid Lowe’s match report. Goodnight!

“This is why you guys come to these games,” Vincent Kompany had said, and here especially. For the quality, the chaos, and the goals, the noise, the drama and the history that invades every moment, even when it seems to be finally left behind. Another wild night at the Santiago Bernabéu seemed to have set up for another barely believable finish, another of those crazy comebacks, but in the end Bayern Munich held on, setting up what is sure to be a special second leg instead.

There was an injury-time winner in the night’s other Champions League game between Sporting and Arsenal. If you don’t want to know the scores…

Bayern have won at the Bernabeu for the first time since 2001. They were sensational for an hour, almost embarrassingly superior at times, and led 2-0 thanks to fine goals from Luis Diaz and Harry Kane. But Real raged against the dying of the light, particularly when Jude Bellingham came on, and missed a series of chances before Kylian Mbappe scored from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s devastasting cross.

There were 40 attempts at goal, 17 on target, and a scoreline of 4-4 would not have been absurd. It was so much fun to watch.

90+4 min Olise gets the wrong side of Carreras in the area, chests the ball down and goes over. He’s certain it was a foul but Michael Oliver waves play on.

90+3 min: Bayern substitutions Leon Goretzka and Tom Bischof replace Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic.

90+2 min Another loose pass from Diaz, this time when he had two men square in the Real area.

Funny old game. Bayern could return to Munich with a) one-goal lead and b) a feeling of missed opportunity.

90+1 min: Chance for Bayern! A Real corner leads to a two-on-one break from Bayern… but Diaz overhits a square pass that should have put Olise through on goal.

90 min Four minutes of added time. Any chance you could make it four hours, chaps?

89 min: Chance for Bayern! Olise teases a lovely ball towards Davies beyond the far post. He could shoot but instead touches it back to Musiala, whose shot bobbles tamely wide of the far post.

87 min Just to confirm, Mbappe did score the Real Madrid goal. Neuer knocked the ball onto the underside of the bar, after which it bounced behind the line. Brahim Diaz thighed it into the net to make sure.

86 min Neuer sweeper-keeps a long way outside his area. So far, so normal, except he almost ran past the ball to give a Real player an open goal. Don’t ask me who it was because there is so much going on. Talking of which, Musiala has just been booked for wiping out Brahim Diaz.

85 min At the other end, Musiala’s deflected long-range shot is comfortably held by Lunin as he falls to his right. I make that the 38th attempt at goal tonight, 19 apiece.

84 min “The tedious debate around Trent has always missed the point somewhat,” says Niall Mullen. “He is able to do things of such quality that he brings joy to those who like that sort of thing. Which I do.”

Theer’s been a debate around Trent?

83 min From the resulting corner, Neuer does well to hold Eder Militao’s extravagant curler. Bayern are hanging on.

83 min Mbappe stabs a simple pass into the area for Vinicius, whose ferocious shot on the run is beaten away by Neuer. The angle was pretty tight and Neuer’s positioning made the save relatively comfortable.

82 min Neuer is booked for taking too long over a goalkick.

81 min It’s like a basketball game at the moment. Musiala is tackled in the Real area; seconds later, Vinicius Jr. is challenged in Bayern’s.

80 min A wobbling shot from Diaz, 22 yards out, is comfortably saved by Neuer.

79 min Bayern break with menace. Luis Diaz surges into the Real area and is well tackled by… Mbappe. Real have got a second wind, or maybe it’s their first. Either way, this will be a long 15 minutes for Bayern if they don’t score a third.

78 min Alexander-Arnold’s cross for the goal was… well actually it wasn’t really a cross at all, it was a pass, and an utterly brilliant one.

77 min Luis Diaz is booked for fouling somebody. Alexander-Arnold’s free-kick from the left is headed over his own bar by Kane. Pulsating stuff.

76 min “In my lifetime as AC Milan hardcore supporter I have experienced twice the demolishing of hyper-celebrated Spanish teams: the 5-0 of Real Madrid at San Siro in 1989 and the 4-0 in Athens of Barcelona in 1994,” writes Giovanni Cafagna. “ Still have the tickets. Those memories will never leave me, and I am happy for the Bayern supporters at the Bernabeu, for in thirty years time, if their team has fallen into disgrace like mine has, they will look forward to mention those memories in an email to the Rob Smyth of the future.”

If I am doing this in 30 years’ time, sometihng has gone bad- hang on, I’ll be alive and sentient in my eighties!

75 min Within seconds of the kick-off, Kane hooks an imaginative volley on the turn that flashes not far wide of the far post. Bayern had become a bit sloppy at 2-0 but that goal will presumably wake them up.

Real Madrid are never dead, not in this competition. They’ve had a number of chances in the last 10 minutes and now Mbappe has taken one. Alexander-Arnold played a give-and-go with Valverde on the right and threaded a glorious angled cross to give Mbappe a tap-in at the far post. Neuer did brilliantly to get something on the shot as he fell towards his own goal, but I think the ball was over the line and Brahim Diaz made sure anyway.

73 min Carreras fouls Olise, who will be living rent-free in his head for the forseeable.

72 min Mbappe is still down after that foul from Tah, who caught him on the back of the achilles. I don’t think it was deliberate but it was certainly painful.

Mbappe’s back up now.

71 min: Real substitution Brahim Diaz on, Arda Guler off.

71 min Tah is booked for a foul on Mbappe. He’s not on a yellow card, or rather he wasn’t.

69 min: Double substitution for Bayern Alphonso Davies and Jamal Musiala – imagine having those two on your subs bench – replace Konrad Laimer and Serge Gnabry.

68 min: Chance for Mbappe! Suddenly Real are creating chances galore. Mbappe gives the ball to Vinicius Jr, who waits for Mbappe’s run on the outside and plays a nice reverse pass into the area. Mbappe runs round the ball and sweeps a shot just wide of the far post.

67 min Another chance goes begging for Real, with Eder Militao heading the resulting corner over the bar. He wasn’t quite able to get over the ball.

65 min Kimmich’s corner flashes across the face, hits a Real defender and rebounds to Diaz. He makes room for a shot that is blocked in the six-yard box. That was another chance for Bayern.

63 min Olise dances infield from the right and flashes a curler just over the bar. He’s been outrageously good.

62 min: Double substitution for Real Jude Bellingham and Eder Militao replace Thiago Pitarch and Dean Huijsen.

60 min It’s a surprise we haven’t seen Jude Bellingham yet. Or any of the Real subs.

59 min Jeers from the home fans as Carreras lets the ball run under his foot and out of play. The poor guy has had a horrible game.

59 min I didn’t see Ajax’s mythical 2-0 win at the Bernabeu in 1995, as it was my first term at university and y’know, but I’d imagine their performance was similar to Bayern’s tonight. There are very few precedents for a team dominating Real like this on their own patch.

58 min Olise’s deep corner is headed wide by Upamecano, arriving late beyond thr far post. Lunin was in no man’s land and that looked a really good chance.

57 min Real lose the ball in their own third yet again. This time it’s Valverde of all people, but he does at least recover to make an important block from Kane’s shot.

57 min “I haven’t seen a team dominate like this since Burnley beat Middlesbrough 2-1 away to secure promotion back in 2023,” honks Peader de Burca.

56 min Olise beats Carreras with contemptuous ease, charges infield to the edge of the D and rifles a low drive that is pretty well held by the diving Lunin.

54 min Kane’s goal was his 11th in the Champions League this season and his 49th in all competitions. Who does he think he is, Clive Allen?

53 min Vinicius Jr. shoots high and wide from distance.

53 min “Sad to hear of Mircea Lucescu’s passing,” writes Colum Fordham. “A great coach and charismatic figure, who was widely respected, especially in Italy coaching Brescia with Hagi and other Romanian players.”

52 min Real were two goals down to Manchester City after 180 minutes of the semi-final in 2022 and still went through. Bayern have been great but Vincent Kompany will know that you’re never safe against Real, at least not until the 12th goal goes in.

50 min “The all-conquering Real Madrid managed by Zinedine Zidane rested on two pillars,” writes Kári Tulinius. “They tried to make the game as chaotic as possible, giving his brilliant players space to do their thing. The second was a rock-solid defence, ready to soak up any pressure. Arbeloa seems to be trying to recreate that tactic, but it’s a tribute act, not the real thing. He doesn’t have the players for that style, as brilliant as they are as individuals.”

49 min Valverde slithers into the area and almost benefits from a fortunate roll of the ball. I say ‘almost’ because Upamecano arrived in the six-yard box to welt the ball to safety.

49 min The TV commentators are focussing on Real’s flaws. That’s fair enough, but they shouldn’t obscure a performance of stunning authority from Bayern.

48 min Bayern are rampant. Olise’s shot from the angle is pushed round the near post by Lunin, who then falls on Stanisic’s deflected shot from the resulting corner.

Real lost the ball for the umpteenth time and were punished with leadpipe cruelty by Bayern. Pavlovic picked Carreras’s pocket on the halfway line and found Olise, who moved to the edge of the area and laid an inviting square pass towards Kane. He used the defenders as a screen and swept a lovely curling shot into the bottom-right corner. Lunin got a slight touch on the shot but he saw it late and couldn’t kept it out.

46 min Real begin the second half; no changes on either side.

Vinicius Jr., who spent the last five minutes of the first half spoiling for a row with Michael Oliver, needs to be careful. He’s one of the many Real players on a yellow card and will miss the second leg if he’s booked.

Half-time entertainment

45 min The angle is very tight but Alexander-Arnold hammers the free-kick towards goal. It’s headed away by Kane, back in his own six-yard box.

44 min Vinicius is fouled by Stanisic just outside the area on the left. There’s an argument Vinicius just ran into him, but the free-kick. Vinicius, who is on one, waves an imaginary card at Michael Oliver.

43 min “As a kid, I loved Steve Foster,” writes Steve Foster Tony Hughes. “I think it’s because he looked like a regular guy who couldn’t believe his luck getting to play professional football as his job.

A”lthough he had a bit-part at Espana ‘82, he didn’t look out of place there. Bookended his one season at the Villa with success at Brighton before and Luton Town after.”

It’s been coming since the first whistle. Gnabry lent the ball to Kane 25 yards from goal, got it back and slipped a beautiful pass inside Alexander-Arnold. Diaz timed his out-to-in run immaculately and swept a first-time finish past Lunin from 12 yards.

The move stated with another errant pass from Real, when Vinicius Jr hit the ball against Olise. It deflected off Olise’s elbow – Real wanted a handball – and within five seconds the ball was in the net.

39 min Olise controls a sharp pass from Kimmich on the half turn, just outside the area, and plays in the overlapping Stanisic. His dangerous low cross is booted clear at the far post.

36 min Tchouameni is booked for a foul on Olise. It looked a bit harsh, an accidental collision rather than something more cynical, but the yellow card means Tchouameni will miss the second leg.

35 min Vinicius Jr’s slightly selfish shot from 25 yards is comfortably saved by Neuer.

33 min Guler, such a busy and imaginative player, gets to the byline on the left and lifts a cross that takes a deflection and just evades the lunging Valverde (I think).

31 min “Serge Gnabry’s headband game is top notch,” says Peter Oh. We’re talking peak Rafael Nadal-level. Head tennis please!”

Don’t you mean Steve Gnabry?

26 min Vinicius’s deflected cross from the left threatens to sneak into the net and is well stopped by the backpedalling Neuer. He then throws the ball straight to Alexander-Arnold, whose fierce shot from the edge of the area is blocked.

25 min Possession percentage: Real 42-56 Bayern. Five shots apiece.

24 min Olise slips Carreras with ease, then tries to go past Guler, who gets a toe to the ball and concedes a corner. Guler had to make that or it would have been a penalty.

This time Olise’s corner is poor, straight into the hands of Lunin.

23 min Bayern have just toyed with Real in and around the area for a good 30 seconds. They couldn’t create a shooting opportunity, but they are playing some beautiful football.

21 min Olise looks like he has the beating of the Real left-back Carreras. On the other side, Alexander-Arnold has started well against his old teammate Luis Diaz.

18 min Gnabry’s shot on the turn is blocked after a mistake by Vinicius Jr. Real break and Vinicius Jr. flashes a curler from the edge of the area that is pushed away by Neuer, diving low to his left.

That’s a decent save from Neuer, and this is a belter of a game.

16 min Mbappe is fouled on the right wing by Laimer, which allows Real to set up camp on the edge of the Bayern area. Alexander-Arnold curls an extremely inviting ball that is a yard or two in front of Huijsen among others.

12 min Bayern continue to dominate possession – and, crucially, to cut off Real’s counter-attacks at source. That won’t always be the case, not against Mbappe and Vinicius, so they’ll want to strike while they’re on top.

10 min In Upamecano’s defence, the ball from Kane was fractionally behind him and bounced slightly higher than he would have liked. Even so, I’d have scored that with Spandex trousers on he should have scored.

8 min Kimmich’s inswinging corner is fingertipped over the bar by Lunin. He might have been trying to score there.

The next corner is curled beyond the far post, with Lunin again flailing at fresh air, and eventually leads to a mishit overhead kick by Gnabry that is blocked.

Bayern have started superbly.

7 min Olise’s free-kick clips a Real head in the wall and flies just over the bar with Lunin diving across goal. Lunin comes for the resulting corner, gets nowhere near it and is grateful to see Huijsen head it out of play on the far side.

6 min Olise is tripped just outside the area by Huijsen, an ill-judged and probably nervous challenge. This is a chance for Bayern…

3 min Vinicius Jr. pulls out to the left to receive possession, then surges into life and runs at Upamecano just inside the area. Upamecano goes to ground to make a meaty and fair challenge.

1 min An early half chance for Bayern, with the left-back Laimer sweeping over the bar from the edge of the area.

1 min Peep peep! Bayern kick off from right to left as we watch.

The players line up for the Champions League music, most with their gamefaces firmly applied. The atmosphere is spectacular, and that’s just in the Guardian liveblog bunker.

“I spent the first three years of my life in Europe in Hunedoara, where Mircea Lucescu was a household name,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “He was as well known as the Corvin Castle. Another yesteryear great goes away.”

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Harry Paterson’s preview

Bayern Munich visit the Spanish capital with wind in their sails: they have lost only twice in 43 matches this season, are on an unbeaten run of 13 games, and have won nine of their 10 games in the Champions League. Their 10-2 demolition of Atalanta in the last 16 served as a timely reminder of their attacking firepower.

They rested a few important players in their 3-2 win at Freiberg at the weekend and, with the Bundesliga title all but secured and a place in the DFB-Pokal semi-finals booked, their attention is fixed on the task ahead at the Bernabéu. Yet, for all of their domestic dominance, Bayern have failed to beat Real in their last nine attempts. The good news is that, even though Harry Kane missed England’s defeat to Japan last week, he trained with the squad on Monday and has travelled to Madrid.

Real Madrid will relish the prospect of hosting Bayern, not least because they have gone on to lift the trophy the past four times they have eliminated the German side from the competition. Their recent domestic form does give reason to temper expectations, though; their 2-1 defeat to Real Mallorca on Saturday allowed Barcelona to move seven points clear at the top of La Liga. If anything, that setback will only sharpen their focus with the Champions League.

Real lost three matches in the league phase, forcing them to overcome Benfica in the playoffs, but they are a different force in the knockouts – as shown by their 5-1 aggregate win against Manchester City in the last 16. They knocked Bayern out in the semi-finals in 2023-24, 2017-18 and 2013-14, as well as in the quarter-finals in 2016-17, so have history on their side.

Thibaut Courtois is still missing after picking up an injury against Manchester City last month, so Madrid will rely on Andriy Lunin. Rodrygo, Ferland Mendy and Dani Ceballos may also miss out but Kylian Mbappé – the top scorer in the competition this season with 13 goals – is fit. Prediction: Bayern to progress after a draw in the first leg.

“Football is just not as exciting as it once was,” weeps Justin Kavanagh. “If a 26-year-old waiter were to run on to the field tonight and clock both Harry Kane and the referee, you can be sure he’d be doing it off balance and with little power because he’d be busy taking a selfie with his non-swinging arm.”

The game’s gone.

At the end of tonight’s game, a Real Madrid fan will charge onto the pitch, chin Harry Kane and flatten the referee Michael Oliver.

No, of course they won’t. But that is essentially what happened at the end of the first ever meeting between Real and Bayern. The footage is kinda bonkers: watch for the affronted gentleman who sprints into view from behind the goal.

Bayern will hope to get over what has become an awkward hurdle. In five of the six seasons since they last won the Champions League, they’ve gone out in the quarter-finals.

Sporting v Arsenal is the night’s other Champions League game. You can follow that with Yara El-Shaboury.

Some very sad breaking news: Romanian legend Mircea Lucescu, who coached the team in the World Cup playoffs less than a fortnight ago, has died at the age of 80.

The second leg is in Munich a week tomorrow. The winners will meet Paris Saint-Germain or Liverpool in another heavyweight contest.