When Villarreal knocked out Juventus in the last eight of the Champions League, European footballers threw it at the bad times the old lady is going through.
Last night (Wednesday) when the yellow submarine went up for its home game in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich, again no one gave it too many chances to surprise the Bavarians.
To the delight of the 24,000 yellow fans who blew up the Ceramics Stadium, their coach Onai Emery knows a thing or two about knockout games and managed to sweep his players to a prestigious 0-1 victory over the German champions who surrendered for the first time this season at the important European factory.
A goal by Arnaut Danguma in the 8th minute gave the Spaniards a lot of hope for the return and a lot of food for thought for Julian Naglesman.
"In the end we deserved to lose," said the Bayern coach, "we were not good enough. In the first half we did not defend Tev, and we had few chances to score. In the second half the game was already completely wild. "We could have conceded two more goals. It was not a good game for us."
Lou salsa between Bayern players, yesterday at Villarreal, Photo: AP
Thomas Müller also continued in his coach's line, adding: "Right now we will take this 1-0, because it could have been worse. Now we have to reset towards the rematch, and fight back. We wanted to win today, but for some reason we could not. I did not. I know if we were missing any animals. "
Villarreal are the first team to beat Bayern in the Champions League this season.
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Giovanni Lou Celso, the winner's Argentine midfielder analyzed from his side: "Villarreal are a hungry team. Even against one of the best teams in the world, even though we came modest, we provided a tremendous football display, and frankly, the result should have been much higher in our favor. Now everything "Open, and it will obviously not be easy, but if we maintain concentration in the second game, we will have the opportunity to get through them."
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