Bayern it is then. As had seemed likely right from the first 27 seconds of this tie, when David Alaba scored the opening goal in Bavaria last week, the German champions progressed to the semi-finals of the Champions League with a fluid, robust and enjoyably controlled 2-0 victory in Turin to complete a 4-0 win on aggregate.
It would be pushing it to say Bayern swaggered through this tie: they didn't need to, instead exposing the limitations of Antonio Conte's energetic Juventus simply by turning up and being reliably Bayern. Here they were driven on by Bastian Schweinsteiger, shading control of midfield from Andrea Pirlo as the match went on, and by a fine display of lone-centre-forward craft from Mario Mandzukic, scorer of the knockout-blow first goal in Turin.
For all Bayern's annihilating dominance in the first leg, this had seemed likely to be a more fraught occasion at the tightly packed Juventus Stadium, a high-spec new-build fortress constructed on the site of the old Stadio Delle Alpi. The 2-0 smothering in Bavaria was a traumatic experience for Italy's trophy club, a night when this self-consciously muscular Juventus was outpressed and outrun as well as outpassed.
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