The quickest strike in this season's champions league, seven goals, two red cards and the competition's 15-time winners exiting in anger - once again the knockout stages of european club football's elite contest has delivered drama in spades.
"if the start of this game is anything to go by then we are in for a hell of a night," said former liverpool captain steven gerrard on tnt sports after real madrid struck 35 seconds into wednesday's quarter-final second leg at bayern munich.
The german champions held a 2-1 lead from the first leg in madrid, but arda guler's lightning-fast 25-yard strike following a mistake by home keeper manuel neuer levelled the scoreline and set the tone for a breathless return at the allianz arena.
It was the fastest goal in this season's competition and was followed by four more in a frenetic, fabulous first half.
A chaotic finale settled the outcome in bayern's favour as eduardo camavinga was sent off for real with four minutes left and vincent kompany's men scored twice late to progress to the semi-finals with a 4-3 win on the night, 6-4 on aggregate.
Unsavoury events came after the final whistle too as real vented their anger over camavinga's controversial dismissal - the second yellow card for time-wasting - as the substituted guler was shown a straight red card on the sidelines for confronting referee slavko vincic.
"the story of the night is the last five minutes," said former real madrid winger steve mcmanaman. "what a game and what an evening."