Bayern can beat Barca to stun world football: Mueller

12 May, 2015

Thomas Mueller believes Bayern Munich can make a statement to the footballing world by surmounting their three-goal deficit to beat Barcelona in Tuesday's Champions League semi-final. Bayern left themselves with a mountain to climb in Munich in order to reach the June 6 final in Berlin after losing last Wednesday's first leg 3-0 at the Camp Nou.
Having already turned over a 3-1 first-leg defeat to triumph 6-1 against Porto in the quarter-finals, Mueller believes Bayern can again pull off the unlikely and shock the Spanish league leaders. "I wouldn't say that we need a miracle," said 25-year-old Mueller. "Since we left the Camp Nou we have wanted to make up for it. "If we go through, it will be a statement which the football world didn't expect.
"Whether or not that could be classed as a miracle is up to you, but in football, many things are possible. "That's why there's still hope and we still believe in ourselves. "We're in a similar position to when we were sat here two weeks ago. "We can't expect things to go like they did against Porto, but that's what we need." Nevertheless, Mueller is under no illusions of what to expect with Barcelona - and Lionel Messi in particular - currently in supreme form.

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