Pep can pencil in final date as Bayern live up to 'super favourites' billing.

Midway through the first half Pep Guardiola withdrew a notebook from the breast pocket of his classic, threequarter-length navy jacket.
In it he was surely sketching out Bayern Munich’s route to the Champions League final for the fourth time in five incredible years.
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Bayern are playing at another level compared to the rest of Europe, justifying the ‘super favourites’ billing given to them by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. They have already beaten CSKA Moscow 3-0 in Group D and this victory, performed at a canter against Manchester City, takes them clear of the field.
The Champions League is where it’s at — and this stylish Bayern side have that unbeatable look about them.
Their coach looks like a man who has just walked off the set of a fashion shoot for GQ magazine. His razor-sharp team, winners of this competition under Jupp Heynckes on that magical night at Wembley in May, are still in vogue.

Razor sharp: Guardiola (right) looks the part and his side are still in vogue

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Nine of the team who beat Borussia Dortmund in the final started on Wednesday night and they have the drive and desire to create more history in this competition. They have special players and a special coach. Guardiola has already won the Champions League twice with Barcelona (2009 and 2011) and there will be more. There have to be.
If he can win it with Bayern, he will become only the fourth manager in the history of the European Cup to win it with a team in more than one country.
Heynckes (Real Madrid and Bayern), Ernst Happel (Feyenoord and Hamburg) and Jose Mourinho (Porto and Inter Milan) are in the record books. Guardiola will surely join them.

All smiles: Thomas Muller (left) and Philipp Lahm celebrate victory at the Etihad Stadium

He has refined Bayern, taking out Mario Mandzukic from the weekend win over Wolfsburg and promoting Thomas Muller to become the team’s false No 9. Whatever they do, it seems to work. To watch Toni Kroos control and spin on his right foot and then send a ball out to Franck Ribery from the outside of his left in the same movement is something else.
Kroos is reinventing the role of a modern midfielder, overtaking Bastian Schweinsteiger as the man who pulls the strings. Kroos is a class act and City couldn’t get near the German international.
Guardiola knows that when a team are capable of playing like this, the trophies will come. It’s the natural progression.

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They have already won the European Super Cup in Prague, beating Chelsea in a penalty shoot-out, but there will be bigger prizes to come.
They are unbeaten in the Bundesliga, second behind Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund team on goal difference after five successive victories.
On Wednesday night they won away, but it’s already beginning to feel like Bayern are home and hosed.