At this level of the Champions League there are the other teams, there is also the Real Madrid!
A place for the final on June 1 was closed by the “merinches” thanks to an epic upset (2-1) on her Bayern Munich at the “Santiago Bernabeu”! Combined, with Germany’s 2-2 draw, they are the ones who will be at “Wembley” against Dortmund (which eliminated Paris Saint-Germain one day earlier), in the first final between the two teams.
This will be the 18th time which the -polinikis of the organization with 14 conquests– will be in the final, more than any other team. And these statistics are reflected in the… weight that her European jersey weighs! As it proved in tonight’s game.
Carlo Ancelotti’s side had most of the big chances, including the post. However, essentially against the flow of the match, the Bavarians opened the scoring with Alphonso Davis (forced substitution instead of Gnabri) at 68′.
And while the match had entered its final stretch and Thomas Tuchel’s team was “hugging” with the qualification to the final (where the klasiker would take place), he appeared as an unexpected hero… Joselu. The 34-year-old – on loan from Espanyol – came on in the 81st minute and with two “hits” in the final gave the great victory to the Madrid team: Initially, in 88′ -using the incredible lol his, possibly MVP by that point, Neuer– and to 90’+1′! Strange phase in 90’+13′with Bayern scoring but the flag being raised first, while the assistant and referee could have let it – very marginal– phase to complete.
Fourth time in a row that Real excludes Bayern in knockout matches, with both teams now having from four qualifiers in clashes with each other in the semi-finals.
The match:
The “merenches” took the initiative of the movements from the first minutes, with Bayern waiting in the half of the field.
Relatively quickly came the first good moments in the match. One for Real in the 6th minute with Carvajal’s dangerous turn and another for Bayern in the 8th minute with Gnabry’s bad choice in the opponent’s area.
To get to 13′ and in the huge double chance and the beam of the Spaniards: From a lateral execution and a nice parallel pass by Carvajal, the ball reached the area on Viniciuswhose diagonal shot hit the left post, with Neuer to also have little contact. THE Rodrigo he took the rebound, shot, but Neuer made the save! The hosts had increased their pressure and had a new moment on the caps, at 15′ with Vinicius.
At the same time few things offensively from Bayern, with Thomas Tuchel also having to manage his injury Gnabriwho in the 27th minute gave way to Alphonso Davis. After two minutes, in fact, the Bavarians had a great opportunity thanks to his penetration and his terrible volley Kanewith Lunin falling and kicking in the corner.
The last phase in the first half once again belonged to Real, in the 40′, with Neuer to perform yet another impressive intervention in his shot Vinicius.
The second part started without any new changes. Heavy hitting with one phase for each team, at 47′ for Real with the individual energy of Vinicius and in the same minute for Bayern with the shot of Davies.
Since, therefore, the German team had a new moment with him Kane in the 54th minute, Real started to create one big phase after another. In fact, Mr Viniciuswho the… had a personal duel with Neuer. Of course, the German goalkeeper always came out victorious and even in an impressive way.
In the 55′ with great energy from the Brazilian ace and projection from his compatriot Rodrigo, the ball went past the right post, with Neuer to put a new impressive “stop”, initially (59′) in the direct foul execution of the second and immediately after (60′) in the shot of the first one after the terrible advance he made.
And after Bayern withstood the pressure, they began to create new chances of their own. Warning shot with Musiala in the 66′ and goal at 68′: THE Alphonso Davis he stepped into the area from the left, with nice feints he passed Ridiger, brought the ball to the right and with a cool shot beat Lunin!
A goal essentially against the flow of the match, to which Real tried to respond immediately. Yes, in 71′ saw the ball end up in the net through a tackle on Davies, though the goal was correctly disallowed after an examination of the phase by Marciniak at VARas it was preceded by a foul by Nacho on Kimmich.
Bayern – who from the last quarter of regular time were now playing with trio in the stoppers– came very close to 0-2 at 76′ by Kane. He failed and paid for it!
THE Joselu entered the 81′. In the 88′ initially brought the match to an overtime score (1-1), with the help of his incredible gel Neuer. Vinicius shot, the German goalkeeper blocked unsteadily, with the ball slipping and the Spanish forward coming to take the “rebound” by scoring from close range!
And before the celebrations could stop, the total upheaval came, at 90’+1′after the parallel shooting of Riedinger and the projection of Joselos. The goal was initially disallowed for offside, but lines were drawn and the decision changed.
To get to the weird phase of it 90’+13′when Bayern scored with De Lichtbut the flag had first been raised for offside. In one very limiting phasein which the Mazrawi it is quite possible that he was not exposed, while the Dutch stopper who found the net afterwards (after the flag was raised) was not affected. In any case, there was no reason why the Polish assistant, Tomasz Listkiewicz, should not have allowed the situation to develop, so that there was also a right to a VAR review.
Thus, nothing changed until the finale in the many minutes of stoppage time already given (nine, to finally be played a quarter due to the stoppage at 2-1), with Real taking the epic qualification.
Watch the match live here.
MVP: Incredible match from Vinicius, as well as from Neuer until the gela. However, the distinction cannot go without going to Joselu. She will remember this look forever.
The whistle: The last phase was very marginal, at 90’+13′. It is very possible – without lines, since there was no right for VAR – that Mazraoui is not exposed (De Ligt, who was not influencing, then sent the ball into the net). However, in any case, there was no reason for the flag to be raised before the phase was complete (so that VAR could be considered). From there, Real’s 1-1 draw was rightly canceled out in the 71st minute, as Nacho’s foul on Kimmich was obvious. In Joselos’ second goal, the lines have a reason. Finally, in a penalty called by the Bavarians against Kane in the 54th minute, there did not appear to be any infringement.
The compositions of the two teams:
Real Madrid (Carlo Ancelotti): Lunin – Carvajal, Riedinger, Nacho Fernandez, Mendy – Valverde (81′ Joselu), Tswameni (69′ Kamavinga), Kroos (69′ Modric), Bellingham – Rodrigo (81′ Dias), Vinicius.
Bayern Munich (Thomas Tuchel): Neuer – Kimmich, De Ligt, Dier, Mazrawi – Leimer, Pavlovic – Sane (76′ Kim), Musiala (84′ Miller), Gnabry (27′ Al. Davies) – Kane (84′ Tsuppo-Moting).
The referee of the match was the Pole Simon Marciniakwhile VAR his compatriot, Thomas Kwiatkowski.
Source: Sport Fm
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