Key events
4 min: Off the line by Johnston! Bayern have started ferociously. Olise kills a crossfield pass beautifully on the right side of the area and faces up Schlupp. His first cross is blocked but his second finds Gnabry beyond the far post, with Schmeichel stranded on the other side of the goal. Gnabry’s downward header is desperately blocked by Johnston.
2 min Blimey, Club Brugge have taken an early lead in Bergamo; they now lead Atalanta 3-1 on aggregate. You can follow the other games on our live scores page.
1 min Bayern kick off from right to left as we watch. Both teams are wearing their change strips.
The players gather round the centre circle for a minute’s silence in tribute to those who lost their lives or suffered serious injury in last week’s Munich car attack.
Here come the players. These players, to be exact.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1) Neuer; Stanisic, Upamecano, Kim, Guerreiro; Kimmich, Goretzka; Olise, Musiala, Gnabry; Kane.
Substitutes: Urbig, Sane, Coman, Dier, Joao Palhinha, Davies, Ito, Boey, Vidovic, Muller, Laimer, Pavlovic.
Celtic (4-3-3) Schmeichel; Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Schlupp; Engles, McGregor, Hatate; Kuhn, Maeda, Jota.
Substitutes: Sinisalo, Bain, Taylor, Scales, Idah, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Kenny, Murray, Ralston, Bonnar.
Referee Benoit Bastien (France).
Charlie Robinson writes in about the new Champions League format
Now we’ve had our first experience of the new format, do you think it’s an improvement? I think that such a large group (36 teams!) played out over such a small number of games leads to excitement as teams can jump up and down the table very quickly, but I also think that’s one of its drawbacks.
It feels a bit like the regular league table at the beginning of the season, with a team that’s bottom early on getting a couple of wins and finding themselves up in third place or something. You also have teams like Man City, PSG, Real Madrid and Juve struggling, and I can’t deny it wasn’t fun seeing Man City and PSG just scraping through by the skin of their teeth!
My main thought is… is it really very dissimilar to the old four-team groups of old, the only real change being all those groups are just smushed together into one?
Okay, we’ll need a couple more seasons to see how it pans out, and it feels very jarring to have eight games against eight different opponents without a clear idea of how that’s figured out, especially the home/away dimension. But what are your thoughts, Rob?
This is a despicable cop-out but I’d like to give it another season or two before slamming down the gavel. It’s far from perfect – it means more games for a start – but I do think this season’s group stage was more interesting, and not only because of the novelty. I thought the lack of symmetry in the fixtures would bother me more than it actually has.
Celtic need to summon the spirit of Amsterdam 1982, when Charlie Nicholas scored a stunning goal as they beat an Ajax team that included Soren Lerby, Jesper Olsen, Jan Molby, Wim Kieft, Gerald Vanenburg and Johan Cruyff.
Feyenoord will play either Internazionale or Arsenal in the last 16. I think a couple of players were sent off after the final whistle: Milan’s Rafael Leao and Feyenoord’s Givairo Read.
Full time: AC Milan 1-1 Feyenoord (agg: 1-2)
AC Milan are out! Feyenoord have reached the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time in 25 years. The tie was turned on its head when Theo Hernandez was given a second yellow card for diving early in the second half. Until then Milan were well on top and it seemed like a matter of time before they scored the winner.
Instead, Feyenoord made their numerical advantage count when the substitute Julian Carranza bulleted a header into the net. It’s a famous night for Feyenoord, who were without almost an entire XI of senior players through injury.
90 min: AC Milan 1-1 Feyenoord (agg: 1-2) Only Real Madrid have won the European Cup more times than AC Milan, but they are on the brink of another miserable elimination.
“Speaking of Father Ted,” begins Matt Emerson, “I see that Tom from Craggy Island has swapped his ‘I Shot JR’ T-shirt for an Ipswich Town kit and is going by the name of ‘Liam Delap’.”
GOAL! AC Milan 1-1 Feyenoord (agg: 1-2; Carranza 73) Feyenoord are ahead on aggregate against AC Milan! A glorious cross from Hugo Bueno was headed in emphatically by the substitute Julian Carranza, who has been on the field for less than 10 minutes.
Brendan Rodgers talks to Amazon Prime
Adam’s done great for us but Daizen gives us that extra pressure at the top of the field – he can run in behind and give them that bit of fear when we decide to press.
You’ve got to play with no fear. And you’ve got to give them no favours because they’re top players. Last week we lost concentration at a corner (for the second goal).
We want to progress the team in Europe and give the club the credibility it had in years gone by. I think we’ve improved this season. I’m really pleased with the ability to come back, particularly after Dortmund [when they lost 7-1].
[On his message to the team] Stay calm, make sure your aggression is controlled – and let’s play.
Three players are on a yellow card and will miss the first leg of the last 16 game if they’re booked: Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane and Alistair Johnston.
52 min: AC Milan 1-0 Feyenoord (agg: 1-1) Milan have been on top all night at San Siro – but Theo Hernandez has just been given a second yellow card for diving so they are down to 10 men. Feyenoord have a great chance to reach the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since – yikes – 1999-2000.
Any excuse to post this outrageous goal from Seba Veron. (Also: the arthritic goalkeeping for Jon Dahl Tomasson’s equaliser is like something out of Father Ted.)
Team news: Kane starts, Maeda up front for Celtic
Harry Kane, who injured his face against Leverkusen in the big Bundesliga game at the weekend, is fit to start. That means there are three changes from the Bayern XI in the first leg: Kim Min-jae, Josip Stanisic and Serge Gnabry replace Eric Dier, Konrad Laimer and Leroy Sane.
Brendan Rodgers makes two changes from the first leg. Jeffrey Schlupp and Jota replace Greg Taylor and Adam Idah. That means Daizen Maeda will start up front, a role he performed so well in the last 25 minutes at Celtic Park.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1) Neuer; Stanisic, Upamecano, Kim, Guerreiro; Kimmich, Goretzka; Olise, Musiala, Gnabry; Kane.
Substitutes: Urbig, Sane, Coman, Dier, Joao Palhinha, Davies, Ito, Boey, Vidovic, Muller, Laimer, Pavlovic.
Celtic (4-3-3) Schmeichel; Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Schlupp; Engles, McGregor, Hatate; Kuhn, Maeda, Jota.
Substitutes: Sinisalo, Bain, Taylor, Scales, Idah, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Kenny, Murray, Ralston, Bonnar.
Referee Benoit Bastien (France).
This is the third time Celtic have played Bayern away from home, all in the Champions League. The first two were in the group stages, a narrow 2-1 defeat in 2003-04 and a more emphatic 3-0 defeat in 2017-18. Two of the goalscorers that night, Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich, are in the Bayern squad tonight.
We’ll have updates from the night’s other Champions League matches. AC Milan lead Feyenoord 1-0 at half-time, which makes it 1-1 on aggregate. Santi Gimenez, signed from Feyenoord earlier this month, scored after 36 seconds.
The other matches kick off at 8pm.
Brendan Rodgers on what Celtic need to do to win
We’ve got the one opportunity. We’ve got to be clever, we’ve got to be bright, we’ve got to be brave in the game. And if we can do that, we’ve shown, and history’s shown in sport, that anything can happen.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to live coverage of Bayern Munich v Celtic at the Allianz Arena. It’s Mission: Near Impossible for Celtic, who are 2-1 down from the first leg in Glasgow and have a very poor record way from home in Europe. The bad news is that it’s highly unlikely they will go through; the good news is that, if they do, it’ll be their greatest European night in a generation.
Kick off 8pm.
