Bayern win sends Real crashing out of Europe

Bayern Munich booked their place in the Champions League's last eight as their 2-1 win sent Real Madrid crashing out and created a small piece of competition history here Wednesday.

Having bagged the all-important away goals in their 3-2 first-leg defeat, Bayern flew out of the blocks with a lightning-quick goal from Roy Makaay after just ten seconds.

It was the fastest in Champions League history and was followed by a well-taken second-half header from Lucio which sealed the win.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's penalty gave Real a late lifeline, but with the teams all square at 4-4 on aggregate Bayern prevailed on the away goals rule.

The defeat came as a hammer blow to the nine-times European champions.

Real are off the pace in their domestic league and this latest setback leaves coach Fabio Capello in a precarious position although the club said immediately after the defeat that the Italian would stay in charge for now.

Capello said: "Our biggest problem was of course the early goal, which was due to a mistake by Roberto Carlos."

"Who would have thought that something like that would happen? It's hard to get back on terms after something like that."

"Being knocked out doesn't make pretty reading but we had the chances to score four times against Bayern and we didn't take them."

Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, who only returned to the Bavarian giants in February, was delighted by the chance to continue his search for a third European title after lifting the trophy with Bayern and Borussia Dortmund.

"The victory today gives us a boost and will also put us back in the running for the German title," Hitzfeld said.

"We told ourselves we wanted to send out a message at the start. And when a team creates as many chances as we did, then the determination is there to see."

Bayern got a dream start at the Allianz Arena thanks to Bosnian midfielder Hasan Salihamidzic's quick reactions.

Straight from the kick-off, Salihamidzic robbed Roberto Carlos of possession and supplied an inch-perfect pass for Dutch striker Makaay to side-foot past Real keeper Iker Casillas after just ten seconds.

It eclipsed the previous fastest goal of 20.07sec in the competition's history set by Gilberto of Arsenal against PSV Eindhoven in 2002.

The home side kept the pressure on and Dutchman Mark van Bommel, who was fined by UEFA for making obscene gestures to Real fans in the first leg, picked up a yellow card.

Salihamidzic had got the better of Roberto Carlos down Bayern's right flank as Lukas Podolski broke clear, but could only fire his shot into Casillas.

Both Makaay and Bastian Schweinsteiger went close and Bayern's Belgian defender Daniel Van Buyten so nearly made it 2-0 with half-time approaching as his header forced a point-blank save.

Capello switched Brazilian Emerson for Guti to add some spark in midfield and the Spanish international went close, but van Nistelrooy was too weak with a header moments later and Raul forced a save.

Podolski earned a yellow card for a stray tackle as the first-half finished 1-0, but Van Bommel stretched Casillas straight from the re-start.

A superb save from Bayern captain Oliver Kahn denied van Nistelrooy after Raul floated over a well-timed cross.

But Bayern put the result beyond doubt in the 66th minute when Brazilian defender Lucio headed Willy Sagnol's corner past the diving Casillas.

There was still drama in the match as Robinho was brought down in the penalty area by Lucio with ten minutes left and van Nistelrooy drove his penalty past the diving Kahn.

Both sides went down to ten men when van Bommel and Mahamadou Diarra earned themselves red cards after squabbling in the build-up to the penalty which will now keep van Bommel out of the quarter-final.

Real defender Sergio Ramos netted late on, but to the relief of the home fans the goal was disallowed after he controlled the ball with his hand.