- Bayern reach fourth consecutive semi-final
- Hosts take 27 minutes to overturn two-goal deficit
- Bavarians' treble dreams still alive
- Porto improve after woeful first half
Bayern Munich put in a devastating first-half performance to overcome a first-leg deficit and beat Porto to reach the Champions League semi-finals.
Needing a 2-0 win, Bayern were level on aggregate within 22 minutes thanks to Thiago and Jerome Boateng headers.
Robert Lewandowksi put them further ahead and Thomas Muller drove home for 4-0 before Lewandowski added a second.
Jackson Martinez gave Porto some hope, but Ivan Marcano was sent off, with Xabi Alonso scoring from the free-kick.
The result was a boost to the reputation of Bayern boss Pep Guardiola, who was in danger of suffering a Champions League humbling for a second consecutive season.
Since the Spaniard took over the reigning European champions from Jupp Heynckes in 2013, they have dominated in the Bundesliga, losing only four of 63 games.
But they were were beaten 5-0 on aggregate by Real Madrid in last year's semi-finals and looked like they might struggle even to reach that stage this time following a 3-1 first-leg defeat in Portugal.
However Bayern - chasing a second treble in three years - were confident of turning it around. Captain Philipp Lahm was "utterly convinced" the Bavarians would qualify, although Muller warned "everyone just piling forward would be suicide".
But, in effect, that is exactly what they did.
Bayern attacked from the first whistle and Lewandowski had hit the post before Thiago headed home Juan Bernat's cross to open the scoring within 14 minutes.
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"Bayern were ruthlessly efficient in the first half. They were brilliant, scored great goals against a poor team. But they made some tactical changes and looked bordering on anaemic in the second half. They didn't look up for it. They could have been pulled back in the end but there's more to come from this team."
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Boateng levelled the tie when his seemingly weak header from Holger Badstuber's flick-on beat Fabiano.
Five minutes later, Bayern strung together 26 consecutive passes as Lahm's cross was helped on by Muller and Lewandowski stooped to headed home.
Porto boss Julen Lopetegui had identified that most of Bayern's threat was coming down the left - despite the absence of wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery - and brought off right-back Diego Reyes after 33 minutes.
But the change did nothing to alter the flow of the game. Muller put Bayern in control when his shot from long distance was deflected through keeper Fabiano's legs by Bruno Martins Indi.
Lewandowski made the second half look like an irrelevance when he was picked out by Muller before firing home, thanks to more woeful Porto defending.
Bayern have twice scored seven goals in Champions League matches this season, and Guardiola frequently looked angry in the second half as they failed to continue their first-half domination.
He would have been even angrier after Martinez headed home Hector Herrera's cross for his seventh goal in eight Champions League games this season.
Moments later the Colombia striker had a chance to reduce the deficit to one goal but shot just wide.
But Porto's hopes of pulling off a remarkable comeback ended when Marcano was sent off for a challenge on Thiago and Alonso curled home the resulting set-piece.
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (6) & SUBSTITUTIONS (6)
Bayern Munich
- 01 Neuer
- 13 Rafinha (Rode - 72' )
- 17 Boateng
- 28 Badstuber Booked
- 18 Bernat
- 21 Lahm
- 03 Alonso
- 06 Thiago Alcántara (Dante - 90' )
- 25 Müller
- 09 Lewandowski
- 19 Götze (Weiser - 86' )
Substitutes
- 04 Dante
- 14 Pizarro
- 16 Gaudino
- 20 Rode
- 23 Reina
- 30 Weiser
- 31 Schweinsteiger
FC Porto
- 12 Fabiano
- 13 Reyes (Pereira - 33' Booked )
- 04 Maicon
- 05 Marcano Sierra Dismissed after an earlier booking
- 03 Martins Indi
- 16 Herrera Booked
- 06 Casemiro
- 30 Óliver
- 07 Quaresma (Neves - 45' )
- 09 Martínez Booked
- 08 Brahimi (Goebel - 67' )
Substitutes
- 01 Helton
- 10 Quintero
- 15 Goebel
- 17 Santos Fortes
- 21 Pereira
- 36 Neves
- 99 Aboubakar
Ref: Martin Atkinson
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