MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Underdogs Villarreal scored an 88th minute equaliser by substitute Samuel Chukwueze to snatch a surprising 1-1 draw at Bayern Munich and advance to the Champions League semi-finals with a 2-1 mixture win over the Germans on Tuesday.
Six-time European champions Bayern, who had received 12 of their earlier 13 residence video games within the competitors, levelled the tie when Robert Lewandowski drilled the ball in off the put up after 52 minutes with his thirteenth Champions League aim of the season.
Yet regardless of controlling the sport they failed to rating once more.
Instead it was Villarreal, semi-finalists in 2006, who netted in opposition to the run of play with Chukwueze beating goalkeeper Manuel Neuer with a left-foot effort to silence the house crowd.
“We really feel a variety of happiness. Ever because the draw paired us with Bayern, we’ve got been telling ourselves that we may do it,” Villarreal ahead Gerard Moreno mentioned. “The perception and the best way this staff competes has helped us to obtain it.”
“In the primary leg we made the error of not ending the tie, and all of the feedback function motivation for us. They made the error immediately of not killing us off and we took benefit of that.”
Villarreal will play Liverpool or Benfica within the last four, with the English facet main 3-1 after the primary leg in Portugal, with the return at Anfield on Wednesday.
ATTACKING FORMATION
Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann fielded an attacking formation with Jamal Musiala, Lewandowski and Thomas Mueller up entrance however that they had just one effort on track within the first half with Musiala’s weak header on the half hour mark.
Villarreal, unchanged from last week’s 1-0 win in Spain, had been comfy with staying again and effectively absorbing the waves of Bayern assaults whereas remaining a menace on the break.
But Unai Emery’s staff seemed out of types after the break, piling up errors and dropping possession as Bayern immediately upped the stress.
Bayern defender Dayot Upamecano ought to have finished higher when his shot from eight metres flew over the bar within the forty ninth minute however Lewandowski didn’t miss three minutes later.
Bayern intercepted a sloppy Villarreal go and the Pole completed the short transfer with a low drive off the put up.
The Bavarians, who had scored a complete of 20 objectives of their earlier four residence video games within the competitors this time period, got here shut to a second aim within the 71st however Mueller’s diving header went large.
It was left to Villarreal, Europa League winners last 12 months, to punished the hosts with a sucker punch by Nigeria winger Chukwueze, to reach the semis for the primary time in 16 years.
“Looking at simply immediately’s sport we must always have superior,” mentioned Bayern’s Mueller. “Accepting immediately’s consequence … I do not actually know what to say. Conceding that aim is extraordinarily bitter.”
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Ken Ferris)
