Fiorentina 3 Bayern Munich 2; agg 4-4: match report

Bystaff and agencies 635AM GMT 10 March 2010

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Bayern Munich requisitioned their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday notwithstanding losing 3-2 to a intrepid Fiorentina in a vibrated confront at the Artemio Franchi stadium.

The German side, who had won 2-1 in Munich, went by on the afar goals" order after the total scores accomplished 4-4.

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In the end, Miroslav Klose"s argumentative 89th-minute idea in the initial leg, that replays showed was yards offside, valid decisive.

"We"ve been separated interjection to the collusion of arbitrate (Tom) Ovrebo in the afar leg," complained Fiorentina boss Andrea della Valle.

"It"s formidable to go out after winning 3-2 even but meditative about the initial leg. But Florence can be unapproachable of the approach that Fiorentina played this evening."

Bayern manager Louis Van Gaal could assimilate his rival"s sentiments.

"I can assimilate that it"s tough for Fiorentina since Klose"s off-side idea in the initial leg valid decisive," he said.

Van Gaal combined "We done a lot of particular defensive errors that"s since this compare became difficult. What saved us was that we one after an additional to hold and we knew how to measure dual pleasing goals."

The home side went dual goals up inside 54 mins by Juan Vargas and Stevan Jovetic prior to Bayern captain Mark outpost Bommel"s set upon on the hour symbol began a flurry of stately goals.

Jovetic grabbed his second with a piece for one person bid but man-of-the-match Arjen Robben pennyless Viola hearts with a overwhelming 30-yard strike.

After the late and argumentative play in Munich in the initial leg, the compare began tentatively with a fibre of unnoticed passes as the sides struggled opposite a clever gale.

Vargas tested Hans-Jorg Butt after five mins with an brazen 40-yard free flog but it was the German side who staid improved with Franck Ribery and quite Arjen Robben causing risk down the wings.

Fiorentina, corroborated by a assertive home await as well as the breeze in the initial half, had combined small until the twenty-eight notation when Marco Marchionni picked the round up thirty yards out and now let fly.

A astounded Butt fumbled to Vargas who someway outmuscled Daniel Van Buyten and, from a parsimonious angle, found the tip dilemma with his lucky left foot.

Bayern should have equalised 6 mins after when Bastian Schweinsteiger"s low header found the approach by the heart of the Viola counterclaim to Robben fifteen yards out.

The Dutchman"s left feet shot was loyal but a drifting Sebastian Frey threw himself retrograde and brilliantly sloping the Dutchman"s shot onto the club and over.

With Bayern wanting a goal, the gait noticeably quickened after the break.

Alberto Gilardino had a stately possibility to stand in the lead five mins behind on the representation but shot wrongly eight yards out permitting Butt to save.

Marchionni had been removing copiousness of the round down the right and from an additional cranky on 54 mins Gilardino backheeled delightfully in to the trail of the onrunning Jovetic, who drilled home from 10 yards for 2-0. It set off a flurry of goals.

Ribery, mostly unknown until the hour mark, squared the round for Mark outpost Bommel to glow unerringly in to the dilemma from twenty yards for 2-1, to put the total scores at 3-3.

Four mins after though and Fiorentina were forward again.

The dangerous Jovetic began a run from deep, played a one-two with Gilardino prior to shrugging off the null and void Van Buyten and slipping the round expertly underneath Butt for a stately piece for one person goal.

Robben suited the ability after 66 minutes. As shining as he had been in the initial leg, the Dutchman cut in from the right and let fly from twenty-five yards, arrowing the round in to the tip dilemma for 3-2 and 4-4 on aggregate.

The Viola attempted to conflict but it was Bayern who looked the some-more expected to measure and used their experience to close the diversion out.

Fiorentina goalkeeper Sebastien Frey pronounced "We did all we could, but unfortunately it wasn"t enough. We"re disappointed, and afterwards we think that with a 1-1 measure in the initial leg we would have competent this evening."

Schweinsteiger combined "It was a unequivocally formidable match, especially since of the breeze that done things unequivocally impossible. Fiorentina played unequivocally well, noteably in the initial half but exactly Bayern were superior."