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MADRID — Bayern Munich became the chief team to advance to a Champions League final it is hosting, beating Real Madrid 3-1 on penalty kicks Wednesday night as Bastian Schweinsteiger converted the final shot in the same way as Sergio Ramos skied his larger than the crossbar.

Bayern, a four-time champion of European soccer's top beat contest, reached the final representing the support stage in three seasons and will perform Chelsea in the final next to Allianz Arena on May 19. Chelsea eliminated defending champion Barcelona a generation earlier.

Following Bayern's 2-1 win in Germany after everything else week, Real won the support crutch 2-1 to force penalty kicks.

Ronaldo converted a penalty kick in the sixth insignificant in the same way as a go across by cherub Di Maria went sour a administer of sliding defender David Alaba. Ronaldo doubled the head in the 14th from inside the penalty area sour a pass from Mesut Oezil, his 56th goal of the season.

Arjen Robben evened the aggregate total in the cycle 3-3 and the away goals 1-1 in the 27th in the same way as Pepe hard-pressed larger than Mario Gomez, and Hungarian mediator defeater Kassai awarded the penalty kick.

It stayed to facilitate way through the support semi and 30 minutes of overtime.

During the discharge, Alaba beat Real custodian Iker Casillas with the chief kick, and Bayern's Manuel Neuer saved the shot Ronaldo, whose kick furthermore was saved in the 2008 Champions League final.

Gomez converted his kick representing a 2-0 head, and Neuer stopped Kaka's shot. Casillas denied Toni Kroos, Xabi Alonso scored representing Madrid, and Casillas stopped Philipp Lahm.

Ramos sent his shot high spot larger than the fasten — as if it were an NFL take goal — and Schweinsteiger sent his shot straight down the inside as Casillas dived not here to collapse Bayern its fourth victory in five semifinal meetings with Madrid.

Madrid's players not here the take with their heads lynching low and a quantity of in tears. Real, in its support season under coach Jose Mourinho, has not reached the final since winning in 2002.

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