Saul Niguez’s brilliant solo goal put Atletico Madrid ahead in their Champions League semi-final against German giants Bayern Munich. The Spanish side beat Bundesliga leaders by 1-0 in the first leg game at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid. Niguez jinked past a grasp of Bayern defensive players before curling into the corner in 11th-minute […]
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]]>Saul Niguez’s brilliant solo goal put Atletico Madrid ahead in their Champions League semi-final against German giants Bayern Munich. The Spanish side beat Bundesliga leaders by 1-0 in the first leg game at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid. Niguez jinked past a grasp of Bayern defensive players before curling into the corner in 11th-minute of the match, giving the hosts a slender first-leg lead to take to Germany. Bayern Munich ruled the second half, David Alaba hitting the bar from 35 yards and Arturo Vidal’s shot was saved in the centre of the goal.
Fernando Torres jabbed against the post in an uncommon counter as Atletico Madrid held on. Both sides will meet again in the second leg at Bayern’s Allianz Arena on Tuesday, and the winning team will face Manchester City or Real Madrid in the final on 28 May in Milan. Atletico Madrid have never been won the Europe’s elite football club competition, whereas they the runner-up of the tournament at two occasions.
Under the management of Diego Simeone, Los Rojiblancos have appeared as genuine contenders to Spain’s consistent duopoly of Barcelona and Real Madrid and have now placed themselves in a satisfactory position to make history by winning the Champions League. With Bayern Munich bragging a wonderful home record of only one defeat in 24 games, the tie is a long way from being done. But Niguez augmented the Spanish title-pursuing side’s own great structure at a rowdy Vicente Calderon Stadium.
The 21-year-old midfielder got the ball around 35 yards from goal, moving through feeble resistance from visitors trio Thiago Alcantara, Juan Bernat and Xabi Alonso, then keeping his poise to control the ball into the bottom corner. Most of Atletico’s triumph under Simeone has been based on defensive elasticity, with his well-structured side conceding only five goals in Champions League this season. Atletico Madrid had likewise kept clean sheets in their last four La Liga matches but confronted Bayern Munich without defensive lynchpin Diego Godin.
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]]>Barcelona and Bayern Munich have reached in the quarter-finals of the Champions League after beating Arsenal and Juventus respectively. Holders Barca hosted Arsene Wenger side in the second-leg game and thrashed them by 3-1 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night. Barcelona already had a lead of 2-0 from the first-leg at Emirates Stadium, so they easily knocked the […]
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]]>Barcelona and Bayern Munich have reached in the quarter-finals of the Champions League after beating Arsenal and Juventus respectively. Holders Barca hosted Arsene Wenger side in the second-leg game and thrashed them by 3-1 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night. Barcelona already had a lead of 2-0 from the first-leg at Emirates Stadium, so they easily knocked the Arsenal out from the competition with an aggregate result of 5-1 at the last-16 round.
Neymar was the man who opened the scoring at the Nou Camp in the 18th-minute, after David Ospina brilliantly saved Lionel Messi’s shot from close range. Mohamed Elneny scored for Arsenal in the beginning of second half but Luis Suarez again put Barcelona ahead in the tie in 65th-minute with a brilliant volley, which was his 17th volley in his last 14 matches. Visitor’s Danny Welbeck hit the woodwork before Messi sealed the victory for Barcelona by putting third in the last minutes. Once again the Spanish champions’ trio Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez were all on target. And this is Arsenal’s sixth Champions League exit in a row at the last-16 stage.
In the second Champions League on yesterday night, Bayern Munich amazingly qualified for the last-8 round after an extra time 6-4 aggregate win against Juventus at the Allianz Arena (their home ground in Munich, Germany). After playing a 2-2 draw in the first-leg game in Italy, the Bundesliga leaders were 2-0 down in the tie till 72 minutes. The Serie A leaders and current champions were looking their place in the quarter-finals with two first half goals from Paul Pogba and Juan Cuadrado.
A 73rd-minute Robert Lewandowski’s goal provided a hope to Bayern but Juventus seemed to have seen them off until Thomas Muller’s stoppage time header pushed the game into extra time. And then Thiago Alcantara and Kingsley Coman secured the German champions’ place in the Champions League quarter-finals by scoring two goals in the extra time. With this victory, Bayern Munich are undefeated in their last 10 home European games.
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