Pep Guardiola will leave Bayern Munich without the Champions League trophy he so craved after the Bundesliga giants were dumped out by Atletico Madrid at the Allianz Arena.
Antoine Griezmann's second-half strike stunned the hosts, who for the 54 minutes until that point had looked favourites to progress from an engrossing semi-final.
Bayern had all the territory and possession in an utterly dominant first-half display, but found Atletico as stubborn as ever in defence, with Jan Oblak continuing the stunning form that had kept the Germans at bay on so many occasions last Wednesday.
Guardiola took over the reigning European champions in 2013 after Jupp Heynckes had won the treble, but saw his final shot at bringing the continent's biggest prize back to Bavaria go up in smoke as Griezmann's incisive counter-attack strike looked to kill this tie as a contest.
Robert Lewandowski gave the final fifteen minutes some life after scoring from close-range but, even despite missing a penalty, Atletico held on for a second Champions League final in three years
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