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Benfica 2 Bayern Munich 2 (2-3 agg): Vidal, Muller send Guardiola's men through

Bayern Munich qualified for the Champions League semi-finals for a fifth successive season as they clinched a 3-2 aggregate victory over Benfica on Wednesday.

Arturo Vidal had scored the winner when the sides met in Munich last week and was on hand to cancel out Raul Jimenez's opener during the first half of a 2-2 draw in Lisbon on Wednesday.

Vidal's powerful leveller provided Pep Guardiola's men with a healthy cushion to defend, leaving Benfica needing two goals by the end of 90 minutes to progress.

Talisca scored from a 76th-minute free-kick to reduce the deficit, but the damage had already been done, with Bayern now facing the possibility of a clash with Manchester City – Guardiola's future employers – in the last four. 

Bayern's first-leg advantage was almost wiped out within three minutes, when Joshua Kimmich conceded a soft free-kick in a dangerous position and Eliseu's low drive ran wide via a deflection off the wall.

Muller turned wide from a Philipp Lahm cross after 19 minutes as Bayern continued to dominate possession, while David Alaba's skewed effort moments later only served to increase German frustrations.

Xabi Alonso's 52nd-minute corner was headed back across goal by Javi Martinez for Muller to tap beyond Ederson.

Douglas Costa hit the right-hand post on the hour, but Benfica were not without their own chances and Andre Almeida forced Neuer to tip over his crossbar from distance when Bayern failed to clear their lines, before Alaba was caught marginally offside in teeing up Muller for a simple finish.

Ederson's blushes were spared when his spillage from a Vidal strike resulted in a corner rather than another Bayern goal after 72 minutes, but Martinez was lucky to escape with a yellow card when he brought down a sprinting Goncalo Guedes on the edge of the box.

Talisca curled home the resulting free-kick and almost repeated the trick soon after, but Benfica still needed two goals to progress – a mountain that proved too big to climb.