Sid Lowe was at the Bernabeu this evening. Here’s his report. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night.

A livid Thomas Tuchel speaks to TNT. “We were almost through … almost there … a very unusual mistake from our very best player for the equaliser … we conceded [the second] in a very narrow decision … then we scored one … a disastrous decision from the linesman and the referee … so it feels almost like a betrayal because of that decision … we left everything on the pitch … we have to say congratulations to Real Madrid … the linesman said sorry but that does not help … the referee does not have to whistle … he sees we get a shot away … it is against the rules and it is a bad decision from both of them … it is a disaster … it is tough to swallow … we were not clinical in our counter attacks … we could have created a decisive chance for a second goal … the team gave everything … we did it together … we left everything on the pitch … it is sport and you have to expect the result in the end.”

Carlo Ancelotti talks to TNT. “We played well … we had opportunities to control the game … it happened again here … it’s quite usual at the Bernabeu with our supporters we can do something unexpected … we believed … we put fresh legs on the pitch … Joselu is a fantastic striker … we had a lot of energy at the end of the game … I’m going to enjoy now until the final … we celebrate the league, then [making] the final … [the players] work really hard … they are really humble … it is the best squad I have ever had in my career.”

Spare a thought for Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui. Exactly five years ago, they were part of the Ajax team that had a place in the final snatched from under their noses in ultra-dramatic circumstances. Well, history has repeated itself tonight. Everyone in Bayern black will be in mourning right now, but Real’s smash and grab is going to cut especially deep for those two.

So, that offside call. Was Noussair Mazraoui offside? Was Matthijs de Ligt? Or was Rüdiger playing them on? It’s all moot now, but decide for yourself …

Post-match postbag. “Real Madrid? Sigh. More like Unreal Madrid. Surreal Madrid” – Peter Oh

“On his Champions League debut against Napoli in the group stage, Joselu missed five sitters from a combined distance of about five yards before finally scoring. Now he’s got a brace in the semi-final. His whole career is a hymn to persistence” – Kári Tulinius

“I guess the linesman forgot the ‘don’t put the flag up until the play is over’ rule when VAR is in play? Horrendous decision, and I don’t like Bayern” – Joe Pearson

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Jude Bellingham recovers to speak to TNT Sports. “We’ve seen it a lot of times this season when it looked as though were dead and buried … it doesn’t matter who scores the goals but someone always manages it … that mentality of never say die … I don’t think Joselu will be sleeping much tonight, he’ll be useless in training tomorrow! … he deserves it all, he’s been an amazing member of the squad all season and it’s his night … there’s a reason we turn so many games … why we always manage to come back in the second leg … it’s cos of these lot [the Real fans] … they give you an energy you can’t get from anything else … at Wembley, against [former club] Dortmund, it’s a weird one … I’m so looking forward to it … hopefully it’ll be a great game.”

“You can’t put the flag up. You can’t put the flag up!” An incandescent Eric Dier telling it as he sees it to the referee. Be good to see the lines drawn on that offside decision again. But either way, it’s all too late for Bayern. Real Madrid will play in their 18th European Cup final, their sixth in the last 11 years, and their first on English soil! They’ll face Borussia Dortmund at Wembley on June 1. They might have snatched the match late from under Bayern’s noses, but it can’t be denied that they were the better side tonight. Joselu is the two-goal hero, but Vinícius Júnior was the man of the match. Manuel Neuer had been excellent too … until he made that late, late error that swung the tie in Madrid’s favour. Jude Bellingham in tears. Harry Kane doing his best to hold them back as he stares at the heavens.

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Real Madrid have done what Real Madrid do yet again!

90 min +13: De Ligt lashes a shot into the bottom-left corner of the net, but the whistle had long gone for an offside on Mazraoui. It was tight, though, the linesman’s flag popping up ridiculously early as he and De Ligt contested a long ball with Rudiger. Tuchel is understandably incensed. That was a very close call. Bayern will feel beyond aggrieved if that’s later proven to be onside.

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90 min +12: Camavinga is booked for hauling back Choupo-Moting. De Ligt launches a long free kick straight into Lunin’s arms.

90 min +11: Penny for the thoughts of Harry Kane, hooked three minutes before Real’s equaliser.

90 min +10: Does it surprise you to learn that Carlo Ancelotti still looks as cool as a cucumber?

90 min +9: There will be more than nine added minutes, the goal, VAR, all that. Real prepare for them by swapping out Bellingham for Éder Militão.

90 min +8: The ball drops to Mazraoui, just inside the Real box on the right. He’s got time and options, but instead slices a hysterical shot high and wide left. Bayern’s heads are understandably addled.

90 min +7: The Bernabeu is bouncing, as you’d imagine. Bayern haven’t been able to fashion a response yet. On the touchline, Tuchel cops for one of the most ironic bookings of all time, punishment for telling his players to simmer down in an overly animated fashion.

90 min +6: Shades of 1999 for poor Bayern as well. But this is Real Madrid!

90 min +5: Joselu has had three touches since coming on. Two of them have scored goals that will go down in Real history!

90 min +3: In fact, when it all came down, Joselu was proved by VAR to be well onside. On the touchline, Thomas Tuchel implores his team to calm down. There’s still time to rescue this. But if they’re to force extra time, they’ll have to do a Real Madrid on Real Madrid!

Joselu looked offside when Rudiger received the ball on the left. Rudiger was on. But as Rudiger prepared to send the cross in, Joselu backed up enough to get back onside. He was on when Rudiger teed him up! The Real bench empties in celebration! They can’t believe it! Bayern can’t either!

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90 min +2: Or will it? VAR to check. And …

90 min +1: Bayern don’t clear the corner. The ball’s slipped to Rudiger on the left. A low cross is fizzed into the middle. Joselu slams home from close range! But the flag pops up for offside. It won’t stand.

90 min: Bayern are suddenly all over the shop! A loose pass out from the back allows Vinícius Júnior and Brahim Díaz to take turns to shoot. Dier blocks the second out for a corner. And then, in the first of nine added minutes …

Neuer has made some huge saves tonight … but he’s dropped a clanger here. Vinícius Júnior cuts in from the left. He shoots. Lamely. But Neuer lets the ball bounce off his chest, and Joeslu is on hand to slam the rebound into the bottom left from close range. Real have done it again!

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87 min: Pavlovic strained something during that aforementioned three-on-one break and is forced to go off for a bit of treatment. Bayern down to ten for now.

86 min: This is far from over, of course. It’s Real Madrid. Just ask Chelsea and Manchester City.

85 min: Musiala isn’t going to finish the match. On comes Muller. And it’s a double swap, as Kane is replaced by Choupo-Moting. Nothing comes of the corner … other than a three-on-one Bayern break, which Muller ruins by playing an awful pass behind Davies.

84 min: Brahim Díaz wins a corner on the right. Before that can be taken, Musiala goes down demanding medical attention. The crowd don’t like it. Of course they don’t.

82 min: Kim rises highest and rattles a header against the crossbar! But it wouldn’t have counted, because Pavlovic had been shoving folk with too much enthusiasm. Real get on with things immediately, Camavinga crossing from the right, Vinícius Júnior opening his body to lash a fine effort not far away from the top-right corner. This is breathless.

81 min: Before it can be taken, Rodrygo and Valverde are replaced by Brahim Díaz and Joselu. Then the free kick’s whipped into the mixer by Kimmich. Rudiger is forced to head behind for a corner on the left. Kimmich to take that too.

80 min: Laimer drives in from the right and draws a foul from Modric. Just what Bayern need as the clock ticks on. They take their sweet time to prepare for the upcoming free kick.

78 min: Modric shimmies down the inside-right channel and shapes to shoot. He changes his mind at the last moment, and plays a ball down the channel to nobody in particular. Goal kick.

76 min: Kim, who didn’t have a great time in the first leg, takes the place of Sané. Bayern looking to hold onto what they have.

75 min: A huge chance for Kane to wrap this up. Musiala jinks down the inside-left channel and slips Kane into the box. Kane lines up his shot only to lash into the side netting. That’s a big miss.