MUNICH, Germany - Three thoughts from the Allianz Arena as Atletico Madrid advance to the Champions League final despite a 2-1 semifinal second leg defeat to Bayern Munich.
1. Third time unlucky for Guardiola as Atletico advance
Three Champions League semi-finals against Spanish opposition, three defeats. Those are the bare facts and, while they can never tell the whole story of Pep Guardiola's reign at Bayern Munich, they may come to define it. This was a white knuckle ride of a night, one that began so promisingly as an invigorated Bayern levelled the tie with a Xabi Alonso free-kick and should have been turned on its head when Thomas Muller's penalty was saved by Jan Oblak shortly afterwards.