The first match of the 2024-2025 Champions League quarter-finals will be a very exciting game. It will be played at the Allianz Arena in Munich on Wednesday (9/4) at 12.30 am IST. The home team, Bayern Munich, will play Inter Milan, who are currently top of the Italian league.
Bayern Munich have just won two Bundesliga games in a row against Augsburg and St. Pauli. Of course, the results are also down to the excellent form of Harry Kane, who has scored in each of his last four matches.
Bayern are currently top of the Bundesliga, six points ahead of their nearest rivals, while Inter are top of Serie A with 68 points, four ahead of Napoli.
Inter Milan have not lost for 10 games, but they have drawn their last two.
This will be the first time Bayern and Inter have played each other since 2022. Bayern won both games, both home and away, 2-0. Bayern’s last defeat to Inter came in 2011.
Bayern have a lot of players who won’t be playing in this match. Key players such as Kingsley Coman, Alphonso Davies, Manuel Neuer, Dayot Upamecano, Hiroki Ito, and Jamal Musiala are confirmed to be absent due to injury.
Alexandar Pavluvic had a chance to play with the team after recovering from a cold, but the game against Inter came too soon for him. He might be in the squad for the second match, though.
Inter will definitely be without Kristjan Asilani, who is serving a suspension, and Denzel Dumfries, Mehdi Taremi and Piotr Zieliński, who are injured. Alessandro Bastoni, Hakan Calhanoglu and Federico Dimarco are still not sure if they will play.
This match will be a tough test for Inter coach Simone Inzaghi. During his career, Inzaghi has lost four times to Bayern, twice when he was with Lazio and twice with Inter.
Inzaghi’s first two meetings with Bayern were in the last 16 of the 2020-21 Champions League. At that time, Lazio lost 1-4 in the first home match and 1-2 in the second. The other two meetings were in 2022-23. With Inter, they lost 0-2 at home and away.
In addition, Inzaghi has never led his team to win when playing in Germany. Inzaghi has visited Germany five times. As a result, Inzaghi has only achieved one draw, while the rest were lost.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Jonas Urbig; Konrad Laimer, Kim Min-jae, Eric Dier, Raphael Guerreiro; Joao Palhinha, Joshua Kimmich; Michael Olise, Thomas Muller, Leroy Sane; Harry Kane.
Coach: Vincent Kompany
Inter Milan (3-5-2): Yann Sommer; Francesco Acerbi, Yann Bisseck, Alessandro Bastoni; Matteo Darmian, Hakan Calhanoglu, David de Frattesi, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Federico Dimarco; Marcus Thuram, Lautaro Martinez.
Coach: Simone Inzaghi
Bayern Munich 2-1 Inter Milan
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