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Champions League FC Bayern Munich: “Not what we want to show”

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“In all respects it was not what we want to show”

Bayern lose at Villareal, Benzema towers against Chelsea

FC Bayern is trembling in the Champions League after a deserved defeat in Villareal for the semi-finals. In the parallel game, the outstanding Karim Benzema leads Real Madrid to victory over Chelsea with a hat-trick.

FC Bayern shows a disappointing performance in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. After the well-deserved defeat at FC Villarreal, the Munich team are self-critical and don’t even try to sugarcoat the defeat.

Manuel Neuer wanted to help. The FC Bayern goalkeeper left his penalty area and advanced almost to the center line. He had the ball and played a disastrous miss on Villarreal striker Gerard Moreno. The Spaniard pulled the trigger immediately, his shot from 60 meters just missed the Munich goal. It wasn’t the only time Bayern got lucky, drawing 1-0 at Villarreal in the first leg of the quarter-finals in the Champions League.

Even in the first half Bayern could not have complained if they had conceded the 0:2 through Francis Coquelin in the 43rd minute. But the video referee conceded the goal because of a wafer-thin offside position. Again and again, the Bavarians ran into counterattacks by the Spaniards, who played them too sloppily. Julian Nagelsmann’s team shouldn’t have complained about two or three goals conceded.

Even so there was a defeat. It was the first away defeat in 22 Champions League games (17 wins, 5 draws). “For us, the defeat is absolutely unplanned. We didn’t have the power offensively. If things go silly, it could have gone higher. We made wrong decisions in the penalty area. We wanted, but we couldn’t always. In all respects it was not what we wanted to show,” said Thomas Müller at DAZN.

“We deserved to lose.”

Bayern were particularly disappointing on the offensive. In the 90 minutes they didn’t create a high-percentage chance to score. In the past two years, Munich have only failed to score once before the 1-0 draw against Villarreal – this season in the 5-0 defeat in Gladbach in the DFB Cup. In the Champions League, Bayern had always scored in the past 30 games, most recently they remained goalless in February 2019 (0-0 in Liverpool).

Robert Lewandowski remained pale for more than 90 minutes

Source: AFP / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU

“We deserved to lose. Our defense wasn’t that good today. Villarreal can gamble, so you have to go into duels. We didn’t have much power in the first half, in the second it was wild. It wasn’t a good game from us,” said Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann.

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