No German team in UCL quarter-finals for the first time in 13 years

For the first time in 13 years since 2005/06 season, no German team has reached the quarter finals of the Champions League.

What is more, it is the first time in the history of the Champions League in which three German teams are eliminated by English opponents in the knockout stages of a single campaign in the competition.

Bayern last fell at this stage of the competition in 2011, going on to win the Champions League two years later. Four semi-finals in the subsequent five seasons followed but age has caught up with a fine side and a revamp is necessary, with the likes of Gnabry and Joshua Kimmich – badly missed through suspension in the second leg – set to have key roles. 

The all-Bundesliga final against Borussia Dortmund was an emphatic statement, 12 months before Germany lifted the World Cup. Club and national team success do not necessarily go together, but Liverpool joining Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham in the quarter-finals should cheer those who revelled in Gareth Southgate's England reaching the semi-finals of Russia 2018.