Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting’s Bayern Munich’s credentials in the quest to win the 2023/24 UEFA Champions League will be out to test this Tuesday evening when they welcome record European Champions Real Madrid in the first-leg of the competition’s semi-final at the Allianz Arena.
Bayern who saw-off aspiring Premier League champions in the quarter-final are hoping coach Thomas Tuchel’s 2021 winning experience with Chelsea works for their good in the first-leg of the crunch tie at their historic home.
Tonight’s meeting is a remake of the 2019 semis which Real won by 4-3 on aggregate to go on to lift the prestigious prize. The two clubs are certainly known to one another, with the pair often facing off at this stage of the competition regularly since the turn of the century.
Real are not a single European loss on their notebook in 2023-24, Ancelotti’s men also enter the semi-finals unbeaten in 10 straight Champions League contests, one shy of their all-time record of 11 successive games without defeat in their triumphant 2016-17 campaign.
The omens will therefore be highly promising if Los Blancos can at least take a draw back to base on Tuesday, and the visitors can proudly boast a six-match unbeaten sequence against Bayern in Champions League action, sending them packing in 2013-14, 2016-17 and 2017-18 before their continental coronations in each year.
Choupo-Moting will be hoping to make his fifth appearance of the competition this season in tonight’s contest.
The plethora of recent knockout matches between Tuesday’s competitors means that Bayern vs. Real Madrid is the most played fixture in the history of the Champions League/European Cup with 26 showdowns – 24 of which have been in knockout rounds – but the head-to-head superiority certainly belongs to the men in white.
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