At 3 a.m. Beijing time on May 1, the first leg of the Champions League semifinals will begin. Among them, Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich will host 14-time Champions League winners Real Madrid. The two teams are worth a total of 1.97 billion euros and have won 20 Champions League titles.
Bayern this season, under the leadership of Tuchel, although the introduction of Kane, a super goalscorer, but the team continued to suffer injuries, the tactical play is relatively simple, the dominance in the Bundesliga has seriously declined, and the sudden Leverkusen has ousted the crown, and the record of 11 consecutive league titles has come to an end. The Champions League has become the only trophy they can still compete for this season.
Real Madrid lost captain Benzema and vacant No. 9 for the first time in team history, coach Carlo Ancelotti decisively changed to 442, and Bellingham, who was signed for a transfer fee of 100 million, played a key role.
Kane and Bellingham have naturally become the "aces" of this heavyweight matchup, and their performances in the 180 minutes of two rounds will determine which side of the balance will be in favor of victory. Bayern vs Real Madrid has been rendered by the media as "Kane VS Bellingham".
Kane has played 42 games for Bayern this season, scoring 42 goals and providing 11 assists, averaging a staggering one goal per game. Among them, the Bundesliga scored 35 goals in 31 rounds, ranking first in the league's scorer list, and it was only a matter of time before they won the European Golden Boot. If Kane can score more than six goals in his last three league games, he will equal or even surpass Lewandowski's record of 41 league goals set in the 2020-2021 season. With such a hot form, it would be a shame if we didn't win a championship at the end of the season.
is also the attacking duo of the England national team, and it is also this season that he joined his new club, and Bellingham's performance is even more impressive. Different from the role of midfield dispatcher during the Dort period, Ancelotti has given Belin more forward and penalty area scrambling tasks this season, and currently Belin has scored 21 goals and 10 assists in 36 games, and the 20-year-old has risen to 180 million euros, tied with Mbappe and Haaland for the world's first place, leading this year's Ballon d'Or.
Bellingham's contribution to Real Madrid is not only in the number of goals and assists, he has repeatedly helped the team to achieve last-minute goals this season, and his tenacious will to play and the quality of not giving up until the end are perfectly in line with Real Madrid's genes, and he has also been extremely loved by the club and fans.
In the history of the two teams, Real Madrid has a certain psychological advantage in this game. In the past three times they have met Bayern in the knockout rounds of the Champions League, Real Madrid have passed all of them and finally lifted the Champions League trophy. In 3 duels and 6 games, Real Madrid scored a total of 15 goals and conceded only 6 goals, which can be said to have the absolute upper hand.
And the Bayern soldiers also hope to work together to win the Champions League sauce under the leadership of Tuchel, which will not only complete the turnaround at the end of the season, but also help Kane break the title drought and lay the most solid foundation for the replacement of the new and old members of the team's core framework in the next few years.
This matchup, for Bayern and Real Madrid, is a promise to win or lose, who can cross the opponent to enter the final, whether it is against Paris or Dort, the possibility of winning the championship will be greatly increased.