Harry Kane urged Bayern Munich to repeat the identical efficiency within the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final subsequent week after beating Actual Madrid 2-1 on the Bernabeu.
Bayern take a slender lead again to the Allianz Enviornment after edging a pulsating quarter-final first leg which noticed Kane rating the decisive purpose.
The England striker doubled their lead 20 seconds into the second half following Luis Diaz’s opener and have been dominant for a lot of the sport, however Actual Madrid rallied and pulled a purpose again via Kylian Mbappe to maintain the tie very a lot alive.
And whereas the guests have been the higher facet for a lot of the sport, Manuel Neuer needed to make an enormous contribution to the sport, pulling off 9 saves to disclaim the hosts on a number of events.
Kane informed TNT Sports activities: “All of the hype round it, coming to Madrid and making an attempt to get a end result its at all times a troublesome factor to do.
“We had some good probabilities, credit score to them they did too. We may be actually proud of the win and take it into subsequent week.
“We’ve loved some actually good moments collectively. We’re within the enterprise finish of the season now. The extra you play and prepare collectively the emotions get even stronger.
“We at all times really feel harmful we at all times really feel like we are able to rating targets for certain.
“We’re in a superb place, we have now to remain targeted. Now it’s nearly recovering and the time will come subsequent week to try to do the identical once more.”
Arbeloa: Neuer was MVP
Actual Madrid interim Alvaro Arbeloa identified Neuer’s busy show – which noticed him win the Participant of the Match award– to counsel his facet carried out higher on the night time and insisted the tie continues to be all to play for.
He informed TNT Sports activities: “I believe [Manuel] Neuer was MVP.
“We had so many probabilities to attain extra targets however we didn’t do it. However we’re nonetheless alive and we hope we are able to win in Germany.
“We lose two balls and so they rating two targets so we are able to’t lose these kind of balls as a result of their gamers are so quick and so fast and have a lot high quality.”