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Liverpool Topple Bayern 3-1 to Reach Quarter Finals


Thu 14 Mar 2019 | 01:12 AM
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By: Ibrahim El-Shawarby

CAIRO, March.14 (SEE)- Sadio Mane scored twice to hand Liverpool a 3-1 Champions League victory at Bayern Munich's home turf on Wednesday as they toppled their German opponents with a dominant performance that sent them through to the quarter-finals.

After their first match ended goalless at Anfield, five-times European champions Liverpool took control in Munich, bossing the game to become the fourth English team into the last eight with their first away win in Europe this season.

Mane opened the scoring, jumping on a needless charge out of his goal by Manuel Neuer in his 100th Champions League appearance, to round the Bayern keeper with a superb turn before chipping his finish into the empty net in the 26th minute.

The German champions levelled 13 minutes later against the run of play when winger Serge Gnabry beat his marker and his cutback was turned into the goal by Liverpool defender Joel Matip.

Centre back Virgil van Dijk, who had missed the first leg last month, killed off any German hopes of a comeback when he rose high to head home in the 69th minute before Mane headed in his second in the 84th.

Last season’s runners-up Liverpool completed a full house of English teams in the last eight, the first time this has happened since the 2008/9 season, with Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Manchester City already through.