Champions League: Bayern comfortable in 5-0 lead

The heat is off Juergen Klinsmann for the time being _ the Bayern Munich coach can afford to field some rarely used players when his team takes a 5-0 lead into the Champions League second-leg match against Sporting Lisbon.

Although Klinsmann has been cautioning his players to take Tuesday's round-of-16 match at Allianz Arena seriously, it would be amazing if Bayern did not make the quarterfinals. No team has ever squandered such a lead in the Champions League.

"It looks on paper as if it were a formality, but it is not so, it's not a given," Klinsmann said. "We have to take it seriously and we can't afford to be careless."

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