Villarreal shocked Bayern Munich with a 1-0 victory on Wednesday. Arnaut Danjuma’s goal gave the Spanish team a better chance of making a big mistake in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Dani Parejo’s shot was diverted by Danjuma in the eighth minute at La Ceramica to give Dani Parejo’s team a surprise victory. He hit the post and then curled a long-range shot agonizingly wide after Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer made a mistake, leaving his own goal open for a split second.
Bayern may have been lucky not to be even more behind going into the second leg next week.
Villarreal’s Giovani Lo Celso said, “We did a great job, and to be honest, we should have won by more.”
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Dani Parejo felt about the game: “We did better than Bayern tonight.” Our team beat one of the best teams in the world.
Julian Nagelsmann’s six-time European champions will still be heavy favorites to win at the Allianz Arena, but Villarreal showed again that they are not underestimated. They already knocked Juventus out in the last 16 of the competition.
The defeat was “deserved,” said Nagelsmann. “We weren’t very good.” “In the first half, we didn’t have enough power, we didn’t take chances, and we lost the game.”
Unai Emery’s team was one of the best in the draw last month, with perhaps only Benfica in second place in the quarter-finals pecking order.
After nine points, Bayern Munich is nine points ahead of Villarreal in the Bundesliga. The Villarreal team is seventh in La Liga and 12 points behind the top four. They haven’t been in the last eight of the Champions League since 2009.
On the other hand, Emery’s team has a history of rising to the occasion. They haven’t lost in four league games against Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid this season, and they beat both Arsenal and Manchester United to win the Europa League last year.
Faster, hungrier,
He scored in the eighth minute to give them an early lead. They were faster and more hungry than Bayern all over the field.
He found space on the halfway line and ran forward, passing to Moreno. Moreno pushed the ball to the line where Lo Celso had been running.
It looked like Neuer would save Lo Celso’s brilliant cut-back with the outside of his left foot to Parejo, but Danjuma came to the rescue. Danjuma pushed the ball out of Neuer’s way and into the opposite corner.
Villarreal kept coming and thought they had another goal, even though it would have been a mistake. Coquelin was close to the goal. He tried to get the ball into the box with his left foot, but it flew over Neuer and into the goal.
Bayern was shaken and couldn’t get in control. As Alphonso Davies came up with a last-second block to stop Moreno’s shot from going in, they should have been two down.
It was after the hour that Moreno had the best chance. Neuer came a long way out of goal, but he scuffed his clearance right to the forward, who had an open goal and half the field.
Running back, a long shot missed the post.
Davies fired two shots at Villarreal’s goal, while Kingsley Coman’s screamer had to be tipped away by Geronimo Rulli as Bayern briefly looked like they would score.
Lo Celso and Alfonso Pedraza both missed good chances for their opponents on the counter-attack, but the other team had the best chances on those breaks. There’s a chance Bayern is happy that the deficit didn’t get any bigger than one.
