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Unay Emery wins his first quarter-final
Unai Emery could not have dreamed of a better outcome for his first quarter-final in the Champions League.
The former Paris Saint-Germain coach brought down Bayern Munich (1-0) and transcended his players throughout the game, encouraging them on almost every action from his technical area.
Giovani Lo Celso had full confidence in his coach before the game and he was right.
This is the first time in its history that Villarreal won against Bayern Munich.
Unai Emery succeeds in entering the European top 8.
Lo Celso and Parejo the metronomes
If all the Villarreal players had a great collective game, Dani Parejo and Lo Celso stand out.
The two midfielders were omnipresent.
Both players are also involved in Danjuma's goal.
The former Parisian initiated many of the Spanish actions and greatly animated his right lane by regularly combining with Juan Foyth.
Dani Parejo has meanwhile done a tremendous job behind the scenes.
Constantly clinging to Kimmich's crampons, he gave the German international an ordeal.
The Spanish number 5 also weighed a lot in the game with great technical mastery and a lot of serenity both offensively and defensively.
A huge game from both players.
Danjuma offers the first round to Villarreal
He was not the best player on the side of the yellow submarine but he allows his team to take a small option for a qualification for the semi-finals.
Aligned at the forefront of the Spanish attack alongside Gerard Moreno, he scored the only goal of the game in the 7th minute by taking a missed shot from Dani Parejo, and thus sowed confusion in the minds of Bayern players .
Subsequently, he sometimes lacked lucidity in certain choices, but he worked hard for the team and took a lot of depth to give solutions to his teammates on the Spanish counterattacks.
His goal offers the first victory in the history of Villarreal against Bayern.
FLOPS
Bayern Munich silent against the Spaniards
The Bavarian scoring machine remained silent this evening against the yellow submarine.
Facing a Spanish team perfectly in place defensively and very concentrated, the German attackers did not manage to find the fault.
Coman tried his luck and was the most stirring without managing to deceive Rulli.
Lewandowski was very well muzzled by Raul Albial and Pau Torres and had no opportunity to get his teeth into it.
Serge Gnabry did not seem very fit and made too little difference in addition to having been absent on several defensive returns.
A match to forget for the Bavarian attack which had not finished a match without scoring a goal in the Champions League for 4 and a half years and a match against Liverpool.
The air holes of the Bavarian defense
If the Bavarian attack was not successful, the defenders were not very efficient either.
They were often taken in their back by the opposing attackers and did not go far from conceding one or two additional goals.
Manuel Neuer, who usually represents Bavarian serenity, left a hole 40 meters from his goal by missing his pass to Hernandez.
Fortunately for him and Bayern, Gerard Moreno's attempt narrowly missed the goal (62nd).
There will be adjustments to be made before the return match on April 12.