Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes has made it a perfect ten of UEFA Champions League victories after watching his side take a commanding first-leg lead in their last 16 tie against Besiktas.
Bayern won 5-0 in Munich on Tuesday, a result that puts the German champions on the verge of qualifying for the quarter-finals for the seventh year in a row.
The victory marked another significant milestone for Heynckes, who returned to Bayern last October after previously leading them to an unprecedented treble of Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Champions League titles in the 2012/13 season.
Not only did his side’s latest success stretch the Bavarians’ best-ever run of consecutive wins in all competitions under the 72-year-old to 14, but it also marked his tenth win in succession in the Champions League.
Only two managers have won ten Champions League games in a row before: Louis van Gaal (with Barcelona and Bayern, between May 2000 and September 2009) and Carlo Ancelotti - Heynckes’ predecessor - who achieved the feat with Real Madrid between April 2014 and February 2015.
In 2012/13, Bayern won all five matches they played from the quarter-finals on, scoring 13 goals and conceding just one in two-legged ties against Juventus and Barcelona, and in the final against Borussia Dortmund.
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Since Heynckes’ return this season they had won four group games – two against Celtic, one against Anderlecht and one against Paris Saint-Germain – before the latest victory over Besiktas.
Heynckes, who previously led Real Madrid to Champions League glory in 1998, is hoping to reach the final for a fourth time as a coach – and in so doing keep up his astonishing record of making the decider in every Champions League campaign he has taken part in.
The sides he has managed have earned an average of 2.3 points per game across the 32 matches he has taken charge of in the Champions League. That means the former Borussia Mönchengladbach striker has the best record of any currently active manager, just ahead of Real’s Zinedine Zidane and Manchester City’s ex-Bayern coach Pep Guardiola.
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