{"id":3513,"date":"2026-04-13T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/3513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:24:11","slug":"bayern-munich-stars-preview-crucial-real-madrid-clash-when-the-champions-league-comes-they-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/3513\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich stars preview crucial Real Madrid clash \u2013 \u201cWhen the Champions League comes, they perform\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Real Madrid take on Bayern Munich in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie. Alvaro Arbeloa\u2019s side are up against it to remain in the competition after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2026\/04\/07\/real-madrid-bayern-champions-league-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:losing 2-1 at the Bernabeu;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;losing 2-1 at the Bernabeu&quot;}\" class=\"link \">losing 2-1 at the Bernabeu<\/a> last week, although there is a strong belief that a comeback can be pulled off.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern are strong favourites to progress, and if they play as they did in the opening hour in the Spanish capital, they should be too strong for Real Madrid. However, their players are taking nothing for granted, as has been made clear by midfielder Leon Goretzka (via <a href=\"https:\/\/cadenaser.com\/nacional\/2026\/04\/13\/el-bayern-se-conjura-para-no-caer-en-la-trampa-hay-hype-contra-el-madrid-y-no-me-gusta-cadena-ser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cadena SER;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cadena SER&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cadena SER<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know perfectly well who we are playing against and what kind of game it will be. In the first leg, you could see how quickly they can generate scoring chances. Therefore, no one needs to warn us of that. We know it ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmich: It doesn\u2019t matter how Real Madrid played before<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Kimmich, who played the entire 90 minutes of the first leg, is also acutely aware of how dangerous Real Madrid are in the Champions League, as he dismissed any suggestion that their domestic woes will affect them in any way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what shape they are in. When the Champions League comes, they perform. That\u2019s why I think it doesn\u2019t matter how they\u2019ve played before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Eberl: Bayern have a good starting position<\/p>\n<p>Bayern sporting director Max Eberl has also previewed Wednesday\u2019s showdown with Real Madrid. He expects Vincent Kompany\u2019s side to use the confidence of last week\u2019s victory to drive them on to victory across the two legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cControlled euphoria is exactly what we had. We must take that euphoria, because what we have achieved no one can take away from us and, even so, we know what a great opponent awaits us. We have a good starting position, but we also know that we are not yet qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Real Madrid take on Bayern Munich in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[266,187,2585,1689,82,83,2584],"class_list":{"0":"post-3513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-bayern-munich","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-kimmich","11":"tag-leon-goretzka","12":"tag-madrid","13":"tag-real-madrid","14":"tag-the-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}