Manuel Neuer thwarts Real Madrid to prove he is not too old or too slow

Time catches up with everybody in the end. But not with Manuel Neuer. Not yet. Even at 40.Bayern Munich’s 2-1 win over Real Madrid on Tuesday night was what it was meant to be. Football as theatre. Sport at its most compelling. Amid its sub-plots and dramas, the moment of the night might have belonged to Neuer, when he clawed a whistling Kylian Mbappe drive around the post.Advertisement