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Mourinho Confident Despite Setback

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Bayern Munich have the advantage. Mario Gomez's stoppage-time winner gave last night's hosts a crucial lead as they fought with Real Madrid for the right to play one more Champions League game in their Allianz Arena this season; the final against Chelsea or Barcelona on 19 May.

It was a predictably tense semi-final first leg, but after Mesut Ozil had equalised Franck Ribéry's opening goal, Real Madrid tried to conserve and take the score draw back to the Bernabeu next week. It nearly worked, until Gomez's late winner delivered Bayern the reward which their 90-minute dominance had warranted.

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