Villarreal inflicted Bayern Munich‘s first away defeat within the Champions League for nearly 5 years as they took a 1-0 benefit from their quarterfinal first leg on the Estadio de la Ceramica on Wednesday.
Arnaut Danjuma scored the one objective of the sport after simply eight minutes as he turned in a shot from Dani Parejo in entrance of Manuel Neuer.
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The higher crew for a lot of the contest, significantly within the first half, Villarreal might even remorse not including to their benefit forward of subsequent week’s decisive second leg in Munich.
Nonetheless, Tuesday’s victory is an achievement in itself in opposition to a membership that had not misplaced on the street within the Champions League for a document 22 video games, courting again to a loss to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.
Extremely, the coach of PSG that day was present Villarreal boss Unai Emery. And the Spaniard deserves enormous credit score for serving to to mastermind an upset of the German champions.
Bayern, the runway Bundesliga leaders looking for a seventh Champions League title, had a large edge in type and European pedigree in opposition to the seventh-placed crew in Spain enjoying in Europe’s premier competitors for simply the fourth time.
However Bayern struggled to deal with Villarreal’s compact form, counter-attacking and depth on either side of the ball.
Villarreal twice got here inches away from including to their lead, first when VAR dominated Francis Coquelin to be simply offside earlier than his cross drifted into the again of Neuer’s internet after which when Gerard Moreno smashed a 25-yard shot in opposition to the underside of the put up within the second half.
However, after seeing off Juventus within the earlier spherical, Villarreal now have one other European giant-killing firmly of their sights.
