Mats Hummels urges Bayern to send Liverpool out of Champions League

• First leg result ‘is satisfying but not more’ says Bayern defender
• Hummels: silencing Anfield was key to Champions League draw

Bayern Munich were satisfied with a goalless draw and their gameplan against Liverpool but they know the path to the Champions League quarter-finals is not “wide open”, Mats Hummels has admitted.

The German champions became the first team to deny Liverpool victory and a goal at Anfield in Europe this season when holding Jürgen Klopp’s side on Tuesday. Hummels believes silencing Liverpool on the counterattack and the home crowd was key to a stalemate that leaves the last-16 tie delicately poised for the second leg in Munich on 13 March. But he admitted Niko Kovac’s team must display more adventure at the Allianz Arena.

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