Eduardo Camavinga lasted 24 minutes on the field and it took eight minutes to receive the two yellow cards that sealed the night and the season for Real Madrid. The French player received a yellow card for a foul on Musiala and the second one for holding onto the ball too long after a foul on Harry Kane. The entire bench of the white team protested, aware that their season was ending there, but it was to no avail. Three minutes later, Luis Diaz scored the equalizer to make it 3-3 and sent Bayern through to the semifinals.
"No one understands how you can be sent off for something like that. The tie ended at that moment. It's inexplicable and unfair. I congratulate Bayern for a great tie, but we would have preferred them to beat us in a different way. It's an inexplicable sending off, an injustice," criticized Arbeloa in the press room. He also admitted that the team believes Vincic didn't know that Camavinga already had a yellow card.
"Yes. I think he showed the second one because the Bayern players told him. Sometimes it seems like the referees either haven't played football or don't understand," the coach insisted. At the time, Vincic showed Camavinga the card and immediately moved back to resume play, until the protests from Bayern players made him realize it was the second yellow.
The coach from Salamanca appealed to the epic throughout the week, to the badge, to history... To everything except football because he knew well that sometimes the ball is the least important thing in this sport. At 34 seconds, Munich found the answer. A mistake by Neuer in the build-up and a fantastic goal by Güler, the second fastest in the club's history in the European Cup after one by Rial against Antwerp in 1957 (31 seconds). Pure Real Madrid.
Madrid delivered the first blow in an unstoppable first half, with no breaks. The introduction of Bellingham and Brahim for Camavinga and Pitarch left an unprecedented midfield for the white team. Fede Valverde as a defensive midfielder, surrounded by three attacking midfielders and Vinicius and Mbappé to threaten Bayern's defense.
At the back, Mendy, who played 45 minutes in the first leg against Manchester City, disappeared for a month until reappearing in the final stages of the match against Girona. The Frenchman, in an extraordinary performance despite supposed lack of match fitness, was the antidote to Olise, who had dominated Carreras in the first leg. Alongside the Frenchman, Militao, who hadn't started in Europe since the Anfield match back in November.
All these circumstances didn't matter because there was no time to reflect on them. Güler scored at 34 seconds, Pavlovic in the sixth minute, Güler again in the 29th with a sensational free-kick, Kane in the 38th, and Mbappé in the 42nd. Five goals and three for Madrid in an unpredictable spell. The whites, who had already scored three at the Allianz in the first half of the 2014 semi-finals, repeated the feat on hostile ground. They are the only club to have ever done so.
But Madrid's effort was met with Camavinga's immaturity and the strictness of Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic, who didn't hesitate to send him off before the goals from Diaz and Olise. The Madrid players were furious with the referee, and Güler was eventually sent off for protesting, but it was all in vain.
The frustration in the Madrid camp is immense, with Bellingham repeating in the mixed zone: "It's impossible for that to be a red card".