Min. 51
Side foul for Bayern. Estupiñán knocked down Coman. Foyth manages to clear the danger.
Min. 50
Eye that Bayern seems to have woken up. Gnabry shoots cross and almost finds the goal.
Min. 48
Dry shot from Davies with his right leg. The Canadian from Bayern is not right with his less good leg.
Min. 47
Foyth sends a cross into the area, Neuer catches it.
The second part begins! 1-0
Play resumes at La Cerámica.
The most dangerous
Coman has been Bayern’s most dangerous footballer. The Frenchman has overflowed a couple of times on the right wing, beating Estupiñán, but then he has not found a recipient for his crosses.
Vale el gol de Danjuma
Villarreal has shown that it can protect Bayern himself. The ‘submarine’ has jumped onto the field intensely and with very clear ideas, occupying all the spaces and bothering the German giant, who has not found his or Lewandowski’s game during the first half. In a flash, the ‘groguet’ team opened the scoring with a great action between Gerard, Lo Celso and Parejo, finished off by Danjuma. Then Coquelin’s goal was disallowed for offside.
Rest in La Ceramica! 1-0
Villarreal beat Bayern after an excellent first half by Emery’s men.
Min. 45 + 2
Albiol’s foul when he wanted to head the corner.
Min. 45 + 1
Capoue forces a corner. Great boarding school for the Villarreal midfielder. Two minutes will be added.
Min. 45
Impenetrable Pau. She drops to the ground to intercept a low cross from Coman.
Min. 44
Villarreal locked up before Bayern’s attack. It’s time to suffer.
Min. 41 Goal disallowed against Villarreal
The VAR undoes the 2-0
Coquelin had beaten Neuer with luck, because his idea was to center and he got a pumped ball that surprised the German. However, the Frenchman was offside.
Min. 40
Another excellent help from Lo Celso to stop Davies, who was spinning on Foyth.
Min. 37
Try to attack Bayern. The German team is looking to put another gear into their game, but Villarreal is very well planted on the field.
Min. 35
Divided ball that leads to the clash between Coquelin and Coman. Both are hurt but they can continue playing.
Min. 34
Coman’s speed change to break down the right wing. Villarreal corrects by clearing its center.
Min. 32
Foyth fails to finish off a center from Parejo.
Min. 30
Lo Celso is hurt after a challenge from Gnabry. The Argentine is restored.
Min. 29
Lo Celso connects with Gerard, but then Pavard goes down very quickly to send the ball to a corner.
Min. 28
Lucas Hernández’s shot went wide. The Bayern center-back was very forced.
Min. 27
Lo Celso is putting together a very complete match. His boots energize the attacking plays and he is the first to offer help in defense.
Min. 25
Bayern try to find their game but can’t. He doesn’t know where to hurt the yellow defense.
Min. 23
Kimmich’s distant shot that doesn’t bother Rulli.
Min. 21
Impeccable Rulli. He is attentive to Bayern’s long passes and intractable from above.
Min. 20
Pau Torres crosses quickly to intercept a shipment for Lewandowski. At the moment, no sign of the Polish striker.
Min. 19
Bayern is not comfortable at this start of the game. Villarreal is intense and closes all the gaps to the Bavarian team.
Min. 17
No problem for Rulli, who serves quickly to see if there are any counter options.
Min. 16
Foyth knocks Davies down. Bayern will have a foul to generate danger.
Min. 15
Lateral fault that hangs evenly to the area. The play ends at the hands of Neuer.
Min. 14
Well Villarreal finding the free spaces left by Bayern.
Min. 12
Good help from Lo Celso to Foyth, who has to dance with Gnabry and Davies.
Min. 10
Villarreal is huge. When he overcomes the first pressure from Bayern, he braids his plays well to reach the rival area.
Goooooooooooooooooal from Villarreal!!! 1-0
Danjuma opens the scoring
The grgoguet team was excellent coming out with the ball under control. Gerard creates space by falling to the wing, Lo Celso crosses for Parejo, who finishes off first. Danjuma was out there and diverted the trajectory of the ball to mislead Neuer. He overtakes the ‘submarine’ in the 8′.
Min. 6
Estupiñán spoils a good match against Villarreal. Beware that Bayern returns to the fray.
Min. 5
Very difficult to take the ball from Bayern, who progressed down the left with a great action by Gnabry. Then Kimmich tries the shot on goal, but the defense deflects his shot.
Min. 3
Estupiñán is imprecise. He hesitated under Bavarian pressure and ended up losing the ball in a dangerous area. Parejo commits a fault to avoid greater evils.
Min. 2
How Bayern pressure. Suffocating pressure from the Bavarian team to drown Villarreal when the ball came out.
Min. 1
Bayern’s first attack. Coman overflows on the right wing but finally loses the ball.
The match begins!
The ball is already rolling in La Cerámica. Villarreal-Bayern underway.
Review of the lineups
Villarreal: Rulli; Foyth, Albiol, Pau Torres, Estupiñán; Coquelin, Capoue, Parejo; Lo Celso, Gerard and Danjuma.
Bayern: Neuer; Pavard, Upamecano, Lucar Hernández, Davies; Kimmich, Musiala; Gnabry, Müller, Coman; Lewandowski.
Players jump onto the pitch
The Champions League anthem sounds at La Cerámica, hopefully it won’t be the last time this season.
Heating
Bayern and Villarreal footballers doing exercises on the pitch. The game will start in a few minutes.
Press room | Nagelsmann
“The priority for them is the league. Nobody expects them to win the Champions League, they can play more liberated without the pressure of getting a result that maybe we have,” said the Bayern coach.
Press room | Emery
“We know that Bayern have gone 22 games without losing away in Europe. To beat them you have to bring many details to your advantage: we have the illusion, the opportunity… We will put it on stage,” Emery guaranteed on the eve of the match. . “We don’t look at them in amazement. If we’re here it’s because we’re good. It’s another challenge,” he added.
great welcomeThe Villarreal fans have turned to their team and have given them a warm welcome outside La Cerámica. Neither Lewandowski nor Bayern stop the illusion of the ‘groguets’, who cling to Emery’s European streak and his stadium to stand up to the German giant.
party figuresThis Villarreal-Bayern will have two clear references, one for each side.
Gerard Moreno
Overcome muscle injuries, Gerard has not yet recovered his goalscoring instinct. Despite this, he is always a danger. In the round of 16 against Juventus in Turin, he opened the way to qualifying with a penalty.
Robert LewandowskiIt is the great threat of Villarreal. The Polish striker, awarded The Best in 2021, is the top scorer in the Champions League with 12 goals and in the round of 16 he scored a hat-trick against Salzburg in Munich.
The referee
The referee who will direct this match will be the Englishman Anthony Taylor, who will be assisted in the VAR by his compatriot Stuart Atwell.
The injured
On the ‘groguet’ side Alberto Moreno will miss the game due to injury, while on the Munich side they will be played by Choupo-Moting, Sarr and Tolisso.
Davies, novelty at Bayern
The Canadian left back reappears after several months in dry dock. In December he tested positive for Covid and later a myocarditis derived from the virus was detected that has had him unable to play since then. Today he returns and he also does it as a starter. Nagelsmann also bets on Musiala in midfield to the detriment of Goretzka, who reappeared on Saturday after four months injured.
Emery reinforces the core
The Villarreal coach includes Francis Coquelin as a ‘partner’ of the Parejo-Capue duo. The Frenchman will reinforce the midfield against a Bayern that is frightening from midfield forward.
‘Eleven’ Bayern Munich
Julian Nagelsmann poses a 4-2-3-1 formed by Neuer; Pavard, Upamecano, Lucar Hernandez, Davies; Kimmich, Musiala; Gnabry, Mueller, Coman; Lewandowski. Früchtl (ps), Ulreich (ps), Richards, Süle, Stanisic, Nianzou, Sabitzer, Wanner, Goretzka, Marc Roca, Tillman and Sané remain on the bench.
‘Once’ VillarrealUnai Emery bets on a 4-3-3 formed by Rulli; Foyth, Albiol, Pau Torres, Estupiñán; Coquelin, Capoue, Parejo; Lo Celso, Gerard and Danjuma. Asenjo (ps), Margio, Alcácer, Iborra, Chukwueze, Trigueros, Peña, Yeremy, Mandi, Moi Gómez, Pedraza and Aurier remain on the bench.
lineups
Before breaking down the keys to the duel, we reveal the line-ups with which Villarreal and Bayern will start.
Good afternoon!
We start this direct from the match between Villarreal and Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.