VILLAREAL – Bayern Munich surprisingly lost to Villarreal in the first leg of the 2021-2022 Champions League quarter-finals. Bayern coach, Julian Nagelsmann, also revealed the reason his team lost to Villarreal who on paper were weaker than them.
Match at El-Madrigal, Villareal, Thursday (7/4/2022), early morning WIB, Bayern came as the seed. However, Bayern were surprised by Arnaut Danjuma’s single goal in the eighth minute which ended in their defeat.
The defeat is certainly painful for Bayern. Moreover, the defeat was Bayern’s first bad away result in the Champions League since September 2017. Uniquely, Bayern’s defeat in 2017 was also written by Unai Emery’s team at that time, namely Paris Saint Germain (PSG).
After the match, Nagelsmann also accepted defeat gracefully. The former RB Leipzig coach admitted that his team did not create enough dangerous chances and did not defend well, especially in the first half.
“In the end, we deserved to lose, we weren’t good enough today, in the first half, we had little power to defend, and we didn’t create enough chances to score either,” Nagelsmann said. I Mia San MiaThursday (7/4/2022).
Nagelsmann even said his team could have conceded more goals. According to him, the Bayern players forget about defense and are too focused on attacking.
