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Hello, buenas noches, guten abend, and welcome to live coverage of Real Madrid v Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals. Just as everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, so every football competition needs a cl?sico: an impossible-to-overhype-but-let?s-bloody-well-try contest between two giant teams. Hell, last weekend there were four cl?sicos on Hackney Marshes alone!*
With apologies to AC Milan, Joseph Bloggs and others, Real v Bayern is the cl?sico of European football. This is their 29th meeting and 14th two-legged tie, both Uefa records, and all have taken place in the European Cup or Champions League. In eight of the previous 13 ties, the winner went all the way that season.
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