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Bayern Munich 7 Shakhtar Donetsk 0 (7-0 agg): German Champions Power into Last 8
Shakhtar Donetsk were made to pay for an early red card as Bayern Munich reached the Champions League last eight with a 7-0 win.
OMNISPORT
Bayern Munich cruised into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League with an emphatic 7-0 win over 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday.
Having been held to a goalless draw in the first leg, Bayern went into the return meeting of the last-16 clash with work to do.
But they were given a significant helping hand in the third minute when Shakhtar defender Olexandr Kucher was shown a straight red card - the quickest in Champions League history - for a foul on Mario Gotze.
Thomas Muller stepped up to convert the resulting penalty and from there it was little more than a procession for the Bundesliga champions.
Jerome Boateng doubled the lead in the 34th minute with a close-range effort before Bayern found another gear in the second half.
Franck Ribery capped off a well-worked move to make it 3-0 in the 49th minute, with a second from Muller, a Holger Badstuber header, a Robert Lewandowski strike and Gotze's effort putting the gloss on the victory on a night where injuries to Arjen Robben and Ribery were the only concern for the hosts.
Kucher's rash challenge on Gotze and subsequent dismissal immediately gave Shakhtar a mountain to climb, with Muller making no mistake with his fourth-minute spot-kick as he stepped up and coolly slotted the ball into the bottom-left corner.
Bayern would have made it two had Robben been able to connect with Lewandowski's pull-back with the goal at his mercy.
Sensing the prospect of being overrun by the extra man, Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu made a defensive change as Sergey Krivtsov replaced winger Taison in the ninth minute.
Robben was then brought off and replaced by Sebastian Rode because of a trapped nerve, but Bayern continued to enjoy almost complete domination and were initially denied a second by the woodwork.
.@esmuellert_: 'One goal's not bad, but it's not as good as two'