The headlines on some of the popular German newspapers, 'You can write them off, but at your risk!' The belief which has been transpiring through the fans as well as the team Bayern Munich  before their do-or-die second-leg tie in the Champions League quarterfinal at Allianz Arena on the midnight (according to Indian time) of Wednesday. 

Even Bayern Munich top brass where the legend like Oliver Kahn is there as the CEO, has the belief that they can expect a miraculous night today. Bayern Munich can overcome the deficit of 0-3 in the first leg of Champions League and finally progress towards the last four stage defeating Manchester City. 

German media as well as the football specialists in Germany have shown five key factors statistically that can be instrumental today night in steering Bayern to the miraculous victory.

The First Factor:

Bayern Munich's incredible consistency at the Allianz Arena is the first favorable factor. Munich was one destination everyone wanted to avoid in the quarter-final draw. Heavy weights like PSG, Barcelona, Inter Milan have all come a cropper at the home of the record German champions in this season's competition, striking 11 goals while Bayern has not conceded a single goal at home in the Champions League this season.

Even the greats like Messi, Mbappe, Robert Lewandowski have all failed to find the net in Bavaria in front of Bayern's assured defense. Sure, City has a goal machine named Erling Haaland. He has an amazing statistics of scoring five times across seven meetings with Bayern as a Borussia Dortmund player, but he lost every single one of them. If Bayern can keep Haaland and his mates quiet at the Allianz Arena, then the semi-final dream is still on. 

2) The Tuchel factor

The recruitment of Tuchel as Bayern head coach during the March international break may have come as a surprise. But German football columnists say, if there is a person you want to call on when the your chips are down in the Champions League, it has to be Tuchel who can be termed the most esteemed of the competition's experts.

3) The history of bounce-back

Dramatic comebacks have become a regular part of the Champions League story in recent years, and as powerhouses of the competition, Bayern have had more than their fair share of magical nights. Things looked similarly precarious for Bayern at the exact same stage of the 2014-15 Champions League as a 3-1 defeat in the first leg of the quarter-final in Porto left them teetering on a competition exit. Any fears of elimination proved to be unfounded, with two assists and a goal from Thomas Müller putting them 5-0 up by half-time in the return fixture on the way to a 6-1 win.

4) Scoring spree of Bayern stars 

Bayern's all-star cast was a big part of the reason Tuchel opted to join Bayern. That and their in-built winning drive that has yielded over 60 major titles, including Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Champions League trebles as recently as 2012-13 and 2019/20.

The Reds have scored more goals than anyone else in the Bundesliga this term (78), with 56 percent of those (44) coming on home turf. Furthermore, only Napoli hit the net more often than Bayern in this season's Champions' League group stage (20 goals to 18), while it should not be forgotten that the 2020 continental kings have scored 11 without reply at the Allianz Arena across their four home games to date in the competition.

5) Reliable record vs. nervous City

City's first-leg success may have given them the overall advantage in terms of the head-to-head record against Bayern, taking them to four wins compared to the Bavarians' three, but it is a different story in Munich. Bayern have won two of the three meetings at the Allianz Arena: 2-0 in September 2011 and 1-0 in September 2014.

City did emerge victorious in the other game, coming back from 2-0 down to triumph 3-2 in December 2013, but there is a significant asterisk next to that result. Bayern were already assured of top spot in Group D ahead of that Match day 6 assignment in 2013/14, making it essentially a dead rubber for the reigning European champions at the time.