Real Madrid hold Champions League advantage over Bayern Munich

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane remains wary of Bayern Munich’s threat in their Champions League semi-final.

Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio, right, scores his side’s winning goal against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in Munich. Picture: AP

Zinedine Zidane said Real Madrid must heed the lessons from their Juventus scare in order to finish off Bayern Munich in next Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final, return leg.

Real took a step closer to a third straight European title after Marco Asensio hit the winner in a 2-1 first-leg comeback victory in Munich yesterday (AEST).

But having suffered an almighty scare at home in the quarter-finals, when Juventus won 3-1 in Madrid after Real had beaten them 3-0 in Turin, Zidane said nothing is decided.

“We will have to fight in the second leg, nothing is decided, that showed in the second leg against Juventus,” Zidane said. “We will have to suffer again and face Bayern in a different way at home, because if we don’t, we could have a bad result next week.”

The hosts took the lead at the sold-out Allianz Arena through Joshua Kimmich, but Marcelo equalised just before the break.

Substitute Asensio hit Real’s winner after finishing a counter-attack to seal Real’s sixth straight win over Bayern in the knockout stages of European competition.

“We can be happy with the result, we had difficulties at the start in imposing our game,” Zidane said. “It’s not easy to come and win here, we can do better, but we’re happy with the result.”

Bayern captain Thomas Mueller admitted the result does them no favours and to compound their woes, they could lose both Arjen Robben and Jerome Boateng to injury for the return.

“Madrid is Madrid, we saw their how coolly they took their chances,” Mueller said.

Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes was not happy to see his team throw away the lead and waste a string of chances.

“It was a curious game, we had a lot of chances we didn’t use, so it’s no wonder we lost,” Heynckes said. “I’m not accusing anyone, but our defence was poor for the goals they scored, we gave them away.”

AFP