UCL: Bayern knock Arsenal out, meet Real Madrid in semi-finals

Bayern Munich defeated Arsenal 1-0 in their Champions League quarter-final second leg and claimed a 3-2 aggregate victory to knock the Gunners out of the competition on Wednesday.

A bullet header from Joshua Kimmich in the 63rd minute secured the victory for Bayern.

The return leg did not quite have the drama of the first at the Emirates Stadium in London, where the game ended in a 2-2 draw, but the Germans took advantage of a moment of lax Arsenal defending.

Kimmich powered home his effort just after the hour to see the Gunners beaten, suffering another blow to their hopes of silverware this season after a 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Sunday.

Bayern, six-time Champions League winners, join fellow Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund, who face Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), in the semi-finals.

Bayern will face Real Madrid in the semi-finals after they beat holders Manchester City on penalties in Wednesday’s other quarter-final.

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The tie is scheduled to take place on April 30 or May 1 and May 7 or 8.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said: “At the moment it is a really gutted dressing room. Very disappointed.

“I cannot find the right words to lift them. I wish I had. We have to go through it.

“The club has been without Champions League football for seven years and you want to play in the first year and be in the semi-finals or the final.

“We all wanted that so badly but you can see in many other clubs it takes them sometimes six or seven years to get to that stage. We were very close, that’s the reality.

“We have to go through the pain tonight and tomorrow, get up and come with the same attitude we had here, and hopefully beat Wolves.”

The Star