Key events
90+2 min Bayern are winning 4-2 yet they’ve had three shots on target, the same as Flamengo.
90_1 min Seven minutes of added time. Laimer is booked for tripping Henrique.
89 min “As a Stuttgart fan, I commend you on naming your fictional cat after Guido Buchwald, the most underrated centreback of the last half century,” writes Kári Tulinius. “He marked Maradona out of a World Cup final. He’s the defensive equivalent of Hurst and Mbappé.”
Fabulous player, a giant in an all-time-great West Germany side. Also, he was the attacking equivalent of Hurst and Mbappé against the Netherlands at Italia 90!
87 min Musiala is booked, I think for fouling De La Cruz. There have been so many yellow cards that my brain has stopped noticing why they’re being awarded.
86 min If it stays like this Bayern will play Paris Saint-Germain in a heavyweight quarter-final on Saturday.
85 min Olise almost makes it 5-2 after a thrilling three-on-three break. He exchanged passes with Sane and was about to shoot when a couple of Flamengo defenders converged to clear the danger.
83 min Harry Kane is booked for an absurd foul on Ayrton Lucas. He ran 70 yards, trying to track Ayrton Lucas, and then booted him up in the air. Kane immediately apologised.
81 min: Triple substitution for Flamengo Wallace Yan, Ayrton Lucas and Nicolas De La Cruz replace Jorginho, Gerson and Alex Sandro.
77 min Flamengo kick off after the cooling break, their players filled with a newfound respect for Sisyphus.
75 min That goal is followed by a cooling break.
Yet again, Flamengo were caught trying to play out from the back. Laimer won possession, Kimmich played a neat disguised pass into Kane on the edge of the area, and he curled emphatically into the corner. Superb finish.
GOAL! Flamengo 2-4 Bayern Munich (Kane 73)
Harry Kane gets his second with a ruthless finish!
73 min: Bayern substitution Jamal Musiala replaces Serge Gnabry, who had a pretty quiet game.
71 min Kane slides a neat pass through to Sane, who does well to ride a challenge but then declines the chance to shoot. Instead he tries to give the ball back to Kane and it’s intercepted.
69 min Now a tough chance at the other end, when Sane misses his kick from Kane’s sharp cutback. Another Bayern goal would surely finish Flamengo off. But for now they are right in this game.
67 min: Chance for Flamengo Bruno Henrique runs onto a long pass forward, beats Neuer to the bouncing ball on the edge of the area but flicks it well wide under pressure. It was a tough chance.
66 min Now Kimmich is booked. He tried to hold off a Flamengo player and accidentally shoved his palm into the face.
64 min The resulting free-kick leads to a penalty appeal when Kane feels a bit of contact from behind. Doesn’t matter; he was offside.
63 min Wesley is booked for fouling Sane just outside the penalty area. Sane was running onto an excellent return ball from Kane, though he was in line with the left edge of the area so it didn’t constitute our old friend Dogso.
59 min: Double substitution for Bayern Leroy Sane and Aleksandar Pavlovic come on for Leon Goretzka and the injured Kingsley Coman.
58 min: Flamengo substitution That was De Arrascaeta’s last action; he’s replaced by Bruno Henrique.
57 min Flamengo break four on four, and the fans go wild… until De Arrascaeta is well challenged by Tah (I think).
GOAL! Flamengo 2-3 Bayern (Jorginho 55 pen)
Jorginho sends Neuer the wrong way to score his first goal for Flamengo. Excellent penalty, and Flamengo have fresh hope.
54 min Jorginho will take the penalty, presumably after a hop and a skip.
Penalty to Flamengo!
53 min A routine cross from the right hits the arm of Olise, who makes no complaint when Michael Oliver points straight to the spot. Olise’s arms were away from his body so this won’t be overturned.
51 min “Which game are you following?” writes Franz. “Flamengo had 15 good minutes but the rest was Bayern‘s. Seems to be still difficult for Brits to praise German teams. Switch channel and enjoy.”
Franz, my friend, if you’re going to call a complete stranger a bigot, at least do your research first. My historical archive is called Ntzr, FFS. My cat is called Buchwald*. If you were any more wrong about me, you’d have addressed me as Mummy.
* Okay I made that bit up but the rest is true and casually accusing people of bigotry/xenophobia/whatever, it’s kinda not on.
50 min Free-kick to Flamengo 25 yards from goal. De Arrascaeta takes… and it’s a poor effort, high over the bar.
47 min “Is Gerson the most evocative name in a potentially not that evocative competition?” wonders Tom Hopkins. “Or is there a Garrincha kicking around somewhere?”
There’s a Fluminense goalkeeper called Fabio, which is exquisitely evocative of long, lusc- oh you’re talking about footballers, aren’t you.
46 min Flamengo kick off from right to left. No additional substitutions on either side.
“I’ve been to Florida in the summer (not my best decision),” says Joe Pearson, “and let me just say, the team in the white kit is going to be significantly cooler than the one in red and black stripes. Honestly, they ought to just make jerseys out of that cooling towel fabric. Oops, just gave away my billion dollar invention idea. Oh well.”
Half-time reading
Half time: Flamengo 1-3 Bayern
Flamengo were Bayern’s equals for 99 per cent of the first half and scored the best of the four goals when Gerson’s howitzer beat Manuel Neuer. Alas, the 1 per cent involved the concession of three eminently avoidable goals. As a result, Flamengo need a comeback for the ages.
45+7 min Flamengo’s tempo has dropped since Goretzka’s goal; they look a bit flat and in need of the half-time break.
45+4 min “He’d deny it, of course, but i wouldn’t be surprised if Neuer was secretly relieved that Gerson’s shot was above his head giving him little chance to save it,” writes David Wall. “Had it been half a metre lower the goalkeeper might have stopped it but he’d have known even less about it than he did as it screamed over his head. At least this way he’ll know something about the rest of the game instead.”
Ha, quite. I can feel a list piece coming on. The Joy of Six: goalkeepers saving with their face.
45+2 min Allan’s first action is a pointless late shove on Kimmich, for which he is booked.
45+1 min: Flamengo substitution Yep, Allan replaces Erick Pulgar, who had game to forget. He gave Bayern the lead with an own goal, then injured himself with a nasty foul on Harry Kane.
Allan was on Liverpool’s books between 2015 and 2020, though I’m not sure he played for the first team.
In other news, there will be eight minutes of added time.
45 min Kane is okay but Pulgar may have injured himself with that foul.
43 min: It’s kicking off! Kane stays down, clearly in pain, after a nasty, gratuitous hack from Pulgar. Tah leads the Bayern complaints, then pushes Plata to spark a brief bit of aggro.
Pulgar is booked – he could have been sent off – while Tah and Plata are also given yellow cards for their shoving match.