Bayern Munich cruised into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 7-1 win over Red Bull Salzburg at home on Tuesday, thanks to a record-breaking 11-minute hat-trick by Robert Lewandowski.
Bayern Munich cruised into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 7-1 win over Red Bull Salzburg at home on Tuesday, thanks to a record-breaking 11-minute hat-trick by Robert Lewandowski. As Bayern shook off their early fears to beat Salzburg, the Polish striker had three goals by the 23rd minute, the earliest anyone has ever achieved a hat-trick in a Champions League game. "This was clearly a statement from us, and it gives us hope that there will be more like this in the future," Bayern captain Manuel Neuer told Amazon Prime after his team reached the final eight for the 20th time in their history.
Salzburg had held Bayern to a 1-1 draw in the first leg, but their chances of pulling off an upset in the second leg were dashed when Lewandowski scored a tap-in and two penalties to send Bayern to a legendary triumph.
It was the quickest of Lewandowski's six hat-tricks in the Champions League, with only ten minutes and 27 seconds between his first and third goals.
"We knew we had to attack the box early today and get Lewy into the game because he's so difficult to stop," Thomas Mueller said.
"We were all aware of the significance of today's game. "It would have been a very sad next three months for us if we had been knocked out," he added.
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