In the 23rd minute of the game, Toni Kroos guided the ball with his foot through the middle of the field when he saw something that more than 75,000 people in the arena in Munich, including FC Bayern’s defenders, could not yet see. He stared at the patch of field that must have looked as ordinary to everyone else as the pillar between platforms nine and ten at King’s Cross station looked to the Muggles, to the non-wizards in Harry Potter.
