The UEFA Champions League last 16 is in full swing, with eight spots up for grabs in the quarter-finals.
Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals by overturning a first-leg deficit in style.
Bayern began the second leg under pressure after a meek showing in their 1-0 defeat in Rome, but an early chance for the recalled Leroy Sané set the tone for a dominant first-half display by the hosts.
Another fresh face among the starting line-ups, Ciro Immobile, ended a prolonged spell of Bayern pressure by heading wide when well-placed to double the visitors’ aggregate advantage, and Lazio rued that miss as Harry Kane pounced to nod his 50th European goal and draw his side level with his fifth of his club’s European campaign.
Lazio then suffered a hammer blow when Thomas Müller connected with Matthijs de Ligt’s exquisite strike to head in from close range and give the six-time champions the lead in the tie for the first time, hastening the momentum which Thomas Tuchel’s players built upon after the break.
Kane capitalised further when Ivan Provedel could only push Sané’s whipped cross into his path, producing a typically composed finish on a night when his goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, had precious little to do. On this emphatically rediscovered form, Bayern will have few fears in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile Kylian Mbappé’s brilliant double propelled Paris into the quarter-finals for the first time since 2021.
Kylian Mbappé struck twice as Paris beat Real Sociedad 2-1 to wrap up a comfortable aggregate victory and book their place in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.
Mbappé was in majestic form in San Sebastián. His first on the night started when he turned his marker to race on to Ousmane Dembélé’s through ball and finished with his whipped shot from a tight angle – sandwiched between those actions was a quite brilliant explosion of pace followed by a brief pause to buy space
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