Champions League
LIVE: Bayern and Atlético Madrid unstoppable
What a show of strength: Bayern Munich won the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 at Atalanta 6-1 on Tuesday. Atletico Madrid celebrated a 5-2 goal fest against Tottenham, while Barcelona salvaged a late 1-1 draw in Newcastle.
Even without their star striker Harry Kane, who was sidelined with a calf injury, Bayern impressively secured their seventh competitive win in a row, their eighth in nine Champions League games this season. Josip Stanisic opened the scoring from close range after a quickly taken corner (12th minute). Michael Olise followed up with a shot into the left corner (22nd minute) and Serge Gnabry made it 3-0 (25th minute).
Laimer, who was playing at left-back, was substituted at half-time. But the goals kept coming: Kane's replacement Nicolas Jackson scored on the counterattack (52'), and Olise buried the ball in the far corner (64'). After Jackson's assist, substitute Jamal Musiala also got on the scoresheet (67').
In the first knockout round, Atalanta had eliminated Bayern's league rivals Borussia Dortmund. This time, "La Dea" only managed to make the result look better thanks to Mario Pasalic in the final minutes (93').
Tottenham's failed goalkeeper experiment
Tottenham coach Igor Tudor surprised everyone in Madrid with his choice of goalkeeper – and it backfired spectacularly. Czech youngster Antonin Kinsky was preferred to regular goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and made one costly mistake after another. Before Marcos Llorente made it 0-1, the 22-year-old slipped on the wet pitch (6th minute), and he served up the 0-3 with a failed attempt to clear the ball from Julian Alvarez (15th minute). Shortly before that, a stumble by Danso's teammate Micky van de Ven had allowed Atletico's Antoine Griezmann to score another goal (14th minute).
After 16 minutes, Tudor pulled the ripcord and brought on Vicario in place of Kinsky. The Italian also had to pick the ball out of his net twice after a header from Robin Le Normand (22') and a picture-perfect counterattack finished off by Alvarez (56'). However, Pedro Porro (26') and Dominic Solanke (76') pulled one back each after a misplaced pass by Atletico's veteran goalkeeper Jan Oblak. Kevin Danso played the full game for Spurs, who are also struggling in the league.
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