Match report: Bayern Munich 1-1 Villarreal (agg: 1-2)
Champions League quarter-final: Villarreal scored an 88th-minute equaliser through the substitute Samu Chukwueze to snatch a stunning 1-1 draw and advance to the semi-finals.
Thomas Muller: “If you take just this game into account, without the first game, we should have gone through convincingly,” he tells Amazon Prime Video. “It’s difficult to accept this; I don’t know what to say.”
More from Moreno: “In the first leg we made the mistake of not finishing the tie, and all the comments serve as motivation for us,” he reveals. “They made the mistake today of not killing us off and we took advantage of that. What this team has done is great.
“We will approach the semi-finals with respect for all our opponents,” he adds. “It’s very difficult to win in football but we deserved to go through. We knew we were going to suffer in defence but we were going to have our chances and, in the end, Chukwueze was able to make the most of it.
“We want to thank those who came here tonight and those who are in Villarreal. It’s great to be a Villarreal fan, and you have to enjoy nights like this.”
Gerard Moreno speaks: “We feel a lot of happiness,” says the Villarreal striker. “Ever since the draw paired us with Bayern, we have been telling ourselves that we could do it. The belief and the way this team competes has helped us to achieve it.”
Villarreal are through to the Champions League semi-finals: They will meet the winners of the Benfica v Liverpool tie, which the English side lead 3-1 and will be concluded tomorrow night.
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Full-time: Bayern Munich 1-1 Villarreal (agg: 1-2)
The six-times European champions are out. And what’s more, they can have no complaints. Having ridden their luck in a first leg they were liucky to lose only 1-0, the German champions failed to capitalise on their good fortune and have gone out after failing to beat Villarreal at home. It’s an astonishing achievement for the Spanish side managed by Unai Emery.
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Villarreal have beaten Bayern Munich!
Peep! Peep! Peep! It’s all over at the Allianz Arena, where the Yellow Submarine from the little Spanish town of Villarreal has torpedoed Bayern Munich. Who saw that coming?
90+5 min: Upamecano sends the ball into the Villarreal box and it’s hacked clear.
90+2 min: We’re into a minimum of four minutes of added time with Bayern Munich staring into the abyss. Albiol headed a clearance to Parejo, who played the ball into the path of Lo Celso on the gallop. He fed the ball to Moreno, whose cross was swept home by Chukwueze.
90 min: Lewandowski goes to ground in the Villarreal penalty area under pressure from Albiol and appeals for a penalty. He doesn’t deserve or get one. Albiol gives him a piece of his mind, gesturing angrily and telling him to get up.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-1 Villarreal (agg: 1-2)
Wow! It’s Villarreal on the counter and just off the bench, Samu Chukwueze connects with a cross to fire the ball home over Manuel Neuer.
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87 min: Bayern Munich substitution: Alphonso Davies on for Lucas Hernandez.
86 min: Samu Chukwueze tries to curl a cross into the path of Gerard Moreno with Bayern stretched at the back but fails to find his man.
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84 min: Villarreal double-substitution: Alfonso Pedraza and Samu Chukwueze on for Francois Coquelin and Arnaut Danjuma.
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82 min: Arnaut Danjuma pulls a low shot wide of Manuel Neuer’s far post. Bayern Munich substitution: Serge Gnabry on for Jamal Musala.
79 min: Coman gets another cross in, which is blocked. The ball loops up in the air and Rulli goes to claim, shipping a shoulder from Thomas Muller as he does so. There wasn’t much in it but pair have a frank exchange of views on the matter.
78 min: A Bayern corner fails to clear the first man and Villarreal clear.
77 min: Hernandez canters down the left for Bayern, picks up a pass from Upamecano and sends in a low cross. It’s intercepted and Villarreal clear their lines. As things stand, we’re heading for extra time.
76 min: Kingsley Coman cuts inside Foyth and tries a shot from distance. His effort goes high and wide.
75 min: Villarreal embark on a counter-attack with Lo Celso on the ball and Gerard Moreno to his right. Upamecano steps in to put a stop to their gallop and plays the ball back to Manuel Neuer.
72 min: Moments before that Muller chance, Gerard Moreno had drilled a ball across the face of the Bayern goal when perhaps he should have shot. There was nobody on hand in a yellow shirt to convert.
71 min: Thomas Muller heads wide from the edge of the six-yard box when scoring looked easier. He’d made a darting run to get on the end of a Leroy Sane cross from the right and was unmarked.
70 min: Gerard Moreno is fouled by Dayot Upamecano and Villarreal win a free-kick halfway inside the Bayern half. It gives the under-the-cosh Spanish side the chance to regroup and reset.
67 min: Coman is bodychecked by Foyth, who gives away a free-kick but escapes a second booking. He’s skating on very thin ice.
66 min: Coman and Foyth are having quite the battle but the Bayern Munich wing-back is starting to get the upper hand, perhaps because the Argentinian tasked with marking him is now on a yellow card.
63 min: Bayern attack again. Kingsley Coman pulls the ball back to Lucas Hernandez on the edge of the Villarreal penalty area. He shoots tamely into the arms of Geronimo Rulli and then sprints back into position.
59 min: Coman outruns Foyth, who gets booked for sliding in with a late challenge a split-second after the Bayern winger had got a cross in. Villarreal clear.
57 min: Another chance for Bayern, with Thomas Muller shooting high and wide under pressure from Juan Foyth.
55 min: That goal came about from a significantly more aggressive Bayern press in this second half. They won the ball high up the pitch, worked it forward to Lewandowski and he shot early after a soft-shoe shuffle on the edge of the Villarreal penalty area. His effort went through the legs of Pau Torres and in off the post.
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54 min: A low diagonal effort from Kingsley Coman takes a deflection off a defender and sails wide of the far post.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-0 Villarreal (agg: 1-1)
Bayern score! After some intense pressing from Bayern, Lewandowski fires into the bottom right hand corner from just inside the VIllarreal penalty area. His effort goes in off the foot of the post.
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51 min: A Sane pull-back from the byline sits up beutifully for Upamecano, who fails to hit the target from 10 yards. That’s a shocking miss.
50 min: Juan Foyth leaps to deny Lewandowski at the far post as the Bayern striker shaped to volley home a cross to the far post.
48 min: Etienne Capoue concedes a free-kick about seven yards outside the Villarreal penalty area, dead centre. Lewandowski dummies and Sane shoots but his effort is blocked by the defensive wall.
47 min: Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli takes out Musiala as the Bayern man runs on to a through ball into the Spanish side’s penalty area. Did he get the ball? I don’t think so but he isn’t penalised despite Bayern’s appeals for a spot-kick.
Second half: Bayern Munich 0-0 Villarreal (agg: 0-1)
46 min: Play resumes with Villarreal, all in yellow, getting the ball rolling. There are no changes in personnel on either side.
Half-time: Bayern Munich 0-0 Villarreal (agg: 0-1)
Peep! Halfway through the second leg and this quarter-final tie is still going the way of Villarreal. They’ve coped comfortably in the face of a decidedly listless looking Bayern side who seem to have rocked up to the Allianz Arena with a Plan A (get the ball wide and sling lots of crosses into the box) and nothing resembling a Plan B, C or D.
45+3 min: Villarreal end the first half with a well-worked attack that ends with Gerard Moreno shooting into the side-netting from a tight angle.
45+2 min: Pavard catches Estupinan with an elbow as he tries to shepherd the ball out of play. The Villarreal player hits the deck like a bag of cement but looks to be exaggerating.
45+1 min: Villarreal win a throw-in deep in Bayern territory, Estupinan takes it and Benjamin Pavard hacks clear.
44 min: Danjuma advances down the inside left but is dispossessed by Leroy Sane as he waits for reinforcements to arrive in the Bayern penalty area.
42 min: Oof! Arnaut Danjuma is put through on Bayern goal, chasing an Etienne Capoue through ball. He lashes the ball wide of the upright with the outside of his left boot after a heavy touch and it’s a bad miss. He looked offside so it probably wouldn’t have counted if he had scored.
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40 min: It’s cross after cross after cross after cross from Bayern, who are making no attempt to play through the centre or between the defensive lines. Villarreal are coping admirably so far and continue to lead this tie.
39 min: Sane cuts in from the right wing and unleashes a shot. Pervis Estupinan slides in to block a couple of yards outside the Villarreal penalty area.
37 min: Lewandowski catches Albiol with another late challenge as the Villarreal defender clears a bouncing ball from his own box. Bayern appeal for a penalty, while Villarreal think Lewandowski should be sent off. Neither a spot-kick nor a red card is forthcoming.
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35 min: Albiol is fit to continue after treatment to his ankle, while Lewandowski shakes his head at the perceived injustice of it all. He can have no complaints.
33 min: As Villarreal try to play the ball out from the back, Raul Albiol is subjected to a late studs-up challenge from Robert Lewandowski. It’s a yellow card for a quite nasty challenge.
31 min: Goretska tries to pick out a Muller run with a dink over the Villarreal defence. Juan Foyth leaps to head clear.
29 min: A Goretska cross from the right and Musiala heads straight at Rulli from seven yards out. He should have scored.
27 min: Bayern win a free-kick wide on the left which is overhit and floats wide of the far post. Much like the first leg, they are focussing on getting crosses in from the flanks and much like the first leg, it is a tactic with which Villarreal are coping comfortably.
25 min: Joshua Kimmich sends a cross from the right towards the far post, trying to find the head of Lewandowski. Rulli punches clear for Villarreal.
24 min: Bayern are in the ascendency, as you’d expect, but Villarreal will be happy with their night’s work thus far. Bayern have yet to muster a shot on target as they seek to overturn their deficit.
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20 min: For Bayern, Kingsley Coman gets the better of Juan Foyth down the left wing. Thomas Muller is unable to reach the ensuing cross.
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19 min: Lucas Hernandez gets across quickly to intercept a wieghted Francois Coquelin through ball into the path of the sprinting Arnaut Danjuma. Good defending.
17 min: A Kimmich corner is volleyed wide of the upright by Leon Goretska, who made a near post run in a crowded penalty area.
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16 min: A teasing cross from Leroy Sane is a little too high for Joshua Kimmich, who was darting to the edge of the Villarreal six-yard box.
14 min: Leon Goretska clips a ball towards the far post trying to pick out Thomas Muller, but it bounces away from his outstretched foot, rendering him unable to wrap his boot around it and steer it goalwards.
12 min: Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli gets down early to smother a breaking ball before Robert Lewandowski can pounce.
10 min: Lucas Hernandez sends a diagonal cross to the far post, where Leroy Sane volleys it across the face of goal. Villarreal clear.
9 min: Arnaut Danjuma takes on and tries to beat Dayot Upamecano on the edge of the Bayern penalty area, but Bayern’s French central defender gets the better of the winger.
7 min: Some decent, slick passing from Villarreal, who enjoy a couple of spells of sustained possession. They don’t look particularly nervous in the belly of the Bundesliga beast and have settled well.
5 min: Gerard Moreno picks up the ball on the right wing for Villarreal, cuts inside and tries a shot from distance. Over the bar. He had options in the penalty area but went for goal himself. It wasn’t a bad effort.
4 min: Villarreal have a throw-in deep in their own half, down near the corner flag. Pervis Estupinan takes it and they get the ball upfield.
3 min: Leroy Sane curls a diagonal ball into the Villarreal penalty area, where Thomas Muller swivels and scuffs a shot. Offside.
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1 min: Bayern immediately turn the screw in what could be a recurring theme this evening, applying pressure to Villarrealk’s defence. One presumes the Spanish side will hope to defend stoutly and catch their hosts on the break, taking advantage of the spaces in behind Leroy Sane and Kingsley Coman.
Bayern Munich v Villarreal (agg: 0-1) is go ...
1 min: Bayern get the ball rolling, with Robert Lewandowski doing the honours.
Not long now: The teams are out on the Allianz Arena sward and have lined up for the Champions League anthem. Kick-off is just a few handshakes, a coin-toss and a blow of referee Slavko Vinic’s whistle away.
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Those teams: Unai Emery sticks with the same 11 that started against Bayern last week, opting for four central midfielders across the middle to provide added backbone. Giovani Lo Celso will be hoping to reprise a man of the match performance that will have left Spurs fans wondering why he never performed similar heroics for their side.
Bayern boss Julian Nagelsmann has gone for a very attacking line-up with a back three rather than a back four. Kingsley Coman and Leroy Sane are his wing-backs, two fine players but not men renowned for their defensive fortitude. Interesting ... very interesting.
Bayernb Munich v Villarreal line-ups
Bayern Munich: Neuer, Pavard, Upamecano, Hernandez, Sane, Kimmich, Goretzka, Coman, Musiala, Muller, Lewandowski.
Subs: Vidovic, Richards, Gnabry, Choupo-Moting, Wanner, Sabitzer, Davies, Roca, Kouassi, Ulreich, Tillman, Stanisic.
Villarreal: Rulli, Foyth, Albiol, Torres, Estupinan, Lo Celso, Capoue, Parejo, Coquelin, Gerard, Danjuma.
Subs: Sergio Asenjo, Mario, Alcacer, Iborra, Chukwueze, Trigueros, Pena, Pino, Mandi, Moi Gomez, Pedraza, Aurier.
Tonight's match officials
- Referee: Slavko Vincic
- Assistant referees: Tomaz Klancnik and Andraz Kovacic
- Fourth official: Matej Jug
- Video Assistant Referee: Massimiliano Irrati
Early team news
Lucas Hernandez is reported to be fit again after recovering from a thigh injury that rulled him out of Bayern’s win over Augsberg at the weekend. Central defender Niklas Sule is out, bedridden with flu, while Bouna Sarr, Maxim Choupo-Moting and Corentin Tolisso are also out injured. Leon Goretzka is expected to be picked ahead of Serge Gnabry, who has not been pulling up too many trees of late.
Alberto Moreno remains a long-term absentee for Villarreal and French-born Senegal striker striker Boulaye Dia is also a doubt for tonight’s game. Villarreal coach Unai Emery sent out a second string side to draw with Athletic Bilbao last weekend and is expected to make wholesale changes this evening.
Champions League: Bayern Munich v Villarreal (agg: 0-1)
VIllarreal were the surprise 1-0 winners of the opening leg of this quarter-final against Bayern Munich, playing so well against the out-of-sorts German champions at the Estadio de la Ceramica that they actually became the unlikely subjects of admittedly muted criticism that they didn’t win the game by more.
Will they be punished at the Allianz Arena for their profligacy in front of goal in the first leg? We’ll find out in due course. Kick-off in Munich is at 8pm but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
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