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Robert Lewandowski
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FC Bayern Munich has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
In the round of 16 second leg, Munich didn't give their opponents Salzburg a chance - the game ended 7-1 (4-0).
In the first leg it was much tougher for FC Bayern, it was only in the 90th minute that Munich managed to equalize through Kingsley Coman to make it 1-1.
But this time it was a class difference.
That was also due to the man of the evening, Robert Lewandowski, who quickly gave Bayern a 3-0 lead within eleven minutes with three goals (12th minute/21st/23rd).
Serge Gnabry made it 4-0 (31st), Thomas Müller 5-0 and 6-1 (54th/83rd).
Maurits Kjaergaard scored the consolation goal for Salzburg in the 70th minute to make it 5-1.
The final point belonged to Leroy Sané (85th).
The quarter-finals with Munich participation will be played between April 5th and 13th.
The draw for the duels will take place on March 18th.
At Bayern, Manuel Neuer returned to goal against Salzburg;
the keeper had been sidelined since early February due to knee surgery.
It wasn't 120 seconds before Salzburg appeared dangerously in front of Neuer's goal, but Nicolas Capldo's shot was deflected and went just wide.
It was one of those ambushed Salzburg attacks that had already been seen in the 1-1 draw in the first leg.
But Bayern should get the game under control much faster this time - and they became dangerous.
After a cross from Coman, Lewandowski spun past his opponent, he would have had a clear shot, but then Maximilian Wöber brought down the Polish attacker.
Lewandowski sunk the penalty kick himself to make it 1-0.
Less than ten minutes later, history was to repeat itself: Bayern were penalized again, Lewandowski was fouled again, and Wöber was responsible again, clumsily touching the Bayern striker on the edge of the penalty area.
Lewandowski then converted again.
Less than two minutes later, the ball was in the goal again, this time Bayern struck from open play: Müller sent the ball through a through ball in the direction of the penalty area, where Lewandowski was lucky that Salzburg goalkeeper Philipp Köhn shot him when he tried to clear and he shot him evening so unfortunate Wöber could not keep up.
The 33-year-old then had a clear run, the hat-trick was perfect.
For Lewandowski, the goal was his twelfth in the competition, the most for any player this season.
With Gnabry making it 4-0 long before the half-time whistle (31st), it was finally clear which team would advance to the quarter-finals.
The game became less exciting from the second half at the latest, but the cheering continued in the Munich Arena: Müller made it 5-0 (54th) with a nice shot from almost 20 meters away.
The Bayern player initiated the scene himself and then refined it after a pass from Sané.
In the 67th minute, both coaches had exhausted their replacement quota, and the many changes were followed by chaos - and Salzburg used them to score the 1:5, which Kjaergaard scored with a hard shot under the bar (70th).
Salzburg then lacked any resistance: Müller and Sané increased with two more goals to 6: 1 and 7: 1.
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