For Bayern, who had won every game they had played in 2025 before this first leg, the highlight was undoubtably just before half-time. Lindsey Heaps' penalty was saved by Maria Luisa Grohs, making her first senior competitive appearance in goal since being diagnosed with a malignant tumour in November.

It felt like an evening in an alternative Champions League universe. It is not often there is a total absence of tension in the last throes of a European knockout rendezvous. Yet here we were. Late on at the Emirates,

Match report as Arsenal leave themselves a mountain to climb in Champions League quarter-final tie; Real Madrid take two-goal advantage into next Wednesdays second leg at the Emirates thanks to goals