12 Apr 2024 22.21 BST Thomas Muller: “If you take just this game into account, without
the first game, we ☀️ should have gone through convincingly,” he tells Amazon Prime Video.
“It’s difficult to accept this; I don’t know what to ☀️ say.”
12 Apr 2024 22.18 BST More
from Moreno: “In the first leg we made the mistake of not finishing the ☀️ tie, and all
the comments serve as motivation for us,” he reveals. “They made the mistake today of
not killing ☀️ us off and we took advantage of that. What this team has done is great. “We
will approach the semi-finals ☀️ with respect for all our opponents,” he adds. “It’s very
difficult to win in football but we deserved to go ☀️ through. We knew we were going to
suffer in defence but we were going to have our chances and, in ☀️ the end, Chukwueze was
able to make the most of it. “We want to thank those who came here tonight ☀️ and those
who are in Villarreal. It’s great to be a Villarreal fan, and you have to enjoy nights
like ☀️ this.”
12 Apr 2024 22.14 BST Gerard Moreno speaks: “We feel a lot of happiness,”
says the Villarreal striker. “Ever since ☀️ the draw paired us with Bayern, we have been
telling ourselves that we could do it. The belief and the ☀️ way this team competes has
helped us to achieve it.”
12 Apr 2024 22.03 BST Villarreal are through to the Champions
☀️ League semi-finals: They will meet the winners of the Benfica v Liverpool tie, which
the English side lead 3-1 and ☀️ will be concluded tomorrow night. Villarreal head coach
Unai Emery is happy with his team’s performance. Photograph: Eurasia Sport Images/Getty
☀️ Images
Updated at 22.20 BST
12 Apr 2024 21.58 BST Full-time: Bayern Munich 1-1
Villarreal (agg: 1-2) The six-times European champions are ☀️ out. And what’s more, they
can have no complaints. Having ridden their luck in a first leg they were liucky ☀️ to
lose only 1-0, the German champions failed to capitalise on their good fortune and have
gone out after failing ☀️ to beat Villarreal at home. It’s an astonishing achievement for
the Spanish side managed by Unai Emery. Raúl Albiol of ☀️ Villarreal (cebtre) celebrates
with his team-mates after Villarreal qualify for the Champions League semi-finals.
Photograph: Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images Gerard ☀️ Moreno (front) and goalkeeper
Geronimo Rulli (back) celebrate Villarreal’s victory. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/EPA
Whilst Robert Lewandowski (second left), Manuel Neuer ☀️ (right) and Thomas Müller
(centre) look dejected. Photograph: Lukas Barth/Reuters
Updated at 23.26 BST
12 Apr
2024 21.56 BST Villarreal have beaten ☀️ Bayern Munich! Peep! Peep! Peep! It’s all over at
the Allianz Arena, where the Yellow Submarine from the little Spanish ☀️ town of
Villarreal has torpedoed Bayern Munich. Who saw that coming?
12 Apr 2024 21.53 BST 90+2
min: We’re into a ☀️ minimum of four minutes of added time with Bayern Munich staring into
the abyss. Albiol headed a clearance to Parejo, ☀️ who played the ball into the path of Lo
Celso on the gallop. He fed the ball to Moreno, whose ☀️ cross was swept home by
Chukwueze.
12 Apr 2024 21.50 BST 90 min: Lewandowski goes to ground in the Villarreal
penalty ☀️ area under pressure from Albiol and appeals for a penalty. He doesn’t deserve
or get one. Albiol gives him a ☀️ piece of his mind, gesturing angrily and telling him to
get up.
12 Apr 2024 21.49 BST GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-1 ☀️ Villarreal (agg: 1-2) Wow! It’s
Villarreal on the counter and just off the bench, Samu Chukwueze connects with a cross
☀️ to fire the ball home over Manuel Neuer. Villarreal’s Samuel Chukwueze (left) fires
home. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA Then wheels away ☀️ in celebration. Photograph:
Christian Kaspar-Bartke/Getty Images Then shows everyone who scored. Photograph: Ronald
Wittek/EPA Leon Goretzka and Kingsley Coman of ☀️ Bayern Munich look dejected after
conceding their side’s first goal. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty
Images
Updated at 22.39 BST
12 Apr 2024 21.45 ☀️ BST 86 min: Samu Chukwueze tries to curl
a cross into the path of Gerard Moreno with Bayern stretched at ☀️ the back but fails to
find his man.
Updated at 21.53 BST
12 Apr 2024 21.42 BST 79 min: Coman gets another
☀️ cross in, which is blocked. The ball loops up in the air and Rulli goes to claim,
shipping a shoulder ☀️ from Thomas Muller as he does so. There wasn’t much in it but pair
have a frank exchange of views ☀️ on the matter.
12 Apr 2024 21.37 BST 77 min: Hernandez
canters down the left for Bayern, picks up a pass ☀️ from Upamecano and sends in a low
cross. It’s intercepted and Villarreal clear their lines. As things stand, we’re
heading ☀️ for extra time.
12 Apr 2024 21.35 BST 76 min: Kingsley Coman cuts inside Foyth
and tries a shot from distance. ☀️ His effort goes high and wide.
12 Apr 2024 21.35 BST 75
min: Villarreal embark on a counter-attack with Lo Celso ☀️ on the ball and Gerard Moreno
to his right. Upamecano steps in to put a stop to their gallop and ☀️ plays the ball back
to Manuel Neuer.
12 Apr 2024 21.32 BST 72 min: Moments before that Muller chance,
Gerard Moreno ☀️ had drilled a ball across the face of the Bayern goal when perhaps he
should have shot. There was nobody ☀️ on hand in a yellow shirt to convert.
12 Apr 2024
21.31 BST 71 min: Thomas Muller heads wide from the ☀️ edge of the six-yard box when
scoring looked easier. He’d made a darting run to get on the end of ☀️ a Leroy Sane cross
from the right and was unmarked.
12 Apr 2024 21.30 BST 70 min: Gerard Moreno is fouled
☀️ by Dayot Upamecano and Villarreal win a free-kick halfway inside the Bayern half. It
gives the under-the-cosh Spanish side the ☀️ chance to regroup and reset.
12 Apr 2024
21.28 BST 67 min: Coman is bodychecked by Foyth, who gives away a ☀️ free-kick but escapes
a second booking. He’s skating on very thin ice.
12 Apr 2024 21.26 BST 66 min: Coman
and ☀️ Foyth are having quite the battle but the Bayern Munich wing-back is starting to
get the upper hand, perhaps because ☀️ the Argentinian tasked with marking him is now on a
yellow card.
12 Apr 2024 21.24 BST 63 min: Bayern attack ☀️ again. Kingsley Coman pulls
the ball back to Lucas Hernandez on the edge of the Villarreal penalty area. He shoots
☀️ tamely into the arms of Geronimo Rulli and then sprints back into position.
12 Apr 2024
21.19 BST 59 min: Coman ☀️ outruns Foyth, who gets booked for sliding in with a late
challenge a split-second after the Bayern winger had got ☀️ a cross in. Villarreal
clear.
12 Apr 2024 21.16 BST 57 min: Another chance for Bayern, with Thomas Muller
shooting high ☀️ and wide under pressure from Juan Foyth.
12 Apr 2024 21.16 BST 55 min:
That goal came about from a significantly ☀️ more aggressive Bayern press in this second
half. They won the ball high up the pitch, worked it forward to ☀️ Lewandowski and he shot
early after a soft-shoe shuffle on the edge of the Villarreal penalty area. His effort
went ☀️ through the legs of Pau Torres and in off the post.
Updated at 21.20 BST
12 Apr
2024 21.13 BST 54 min: ☀️ A low diagonal effort from Kingsley Coman takes a deflection off
a defender and sails wide of the far post.
12 ☀️ Apr 2024 21.12 BST GOAL! Bayern Munich
1-0 Villarreal (agg: 1-1) Bayern score! After some intense pressing from Bayern,
Lewandowski ☀️ fires into the bottom right hand corner from just inside the VIllarreal
penalty area. His effort goes in off the ☀️ foot of the post. Bayern Munich’s Robert
Lewandowski scores their first goal. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Lewandowski
celebrates as does Thomas ☀️ Muller in the background. Photograph: Kai
Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Updated at 21.51 BST
12 Apr 2024 21.11 BST 51 min: A Sane pull-back
from ☀️ the byline sits up beutifully for Upamecano, who fails to hit the target from 10
yards. That’s a shocking miss.
12 ☀️ Apr 2024 21.10 BST 50 min: Juan Foyth leaps to deny
Lewandowski at the far post as the Bayern striker ☀️ shaped to volley home a cross to the
far post.
12 Apr 2024 21.09 BST 48 min: Etienne Capoue concedes a ☀️ free-kick about seven
yards outside the Villarreal penalty area, dead centre. Lewandowski dummies and Sane
shoots but his effort is ☀️ blocked by the defensive wall.
12 Apr 2024 21.07 BST 47 min:
Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli takes out Musiala as the ☀️ Bayern man runs on to a
through ball into the Spanish side’s penalty area. Did he get the ball? I ☀️ don’t think
so but he isn’t penalised despite Bayern’s appeals for a spot-kick.
12 Apr 2024 21.05
BST Second half: Bayern ☀️ Munich 0-0 Villarreal (agg: 0-1) 46 min: Play resumes with
Villarreal, all in yellow, getting the ball rolling. There are ☀️ no changes in personnel
on either side.
12 Apr 2024 20.52 BST Half-time: Bayern Munich 0-0 Villarreal (agg:
0-1) Peep! Halfway ☀️ through the second leg and this quarter-final tie is still going the
way of Villarreal. They’ve coped comfortably in the ☀️ face of a decidedly listless
looking Bayern side who seem to have rocked up to the Allianz Arena with a ☀️ Plan A (get
the ball wide and sling lots of crosses into the box) and nothing resembling a Plan B,
☀️ C or D.
12 Apr 2024 20.49 BST 45+3 min: Villarreal end the first half with a
well-worked attack that ends ☀️ with Gerard Moreno shooting into the side-netting from a
tight angle.
12 Apr 2024 20.48 BST 45+2 min: Pavard catches Estupinan ☀️ with an elbow as
he tries to shepherd the ball out of play. The Villarreal player hits the deck like ☀️ a
bag of cement but looks to be exaggerating.
12 Apr 2024 20.45 BST 44 min: Danjuma
advances down the inside ☀️ left but is dispossessed by Leroy Sane as he waits for
reinforcements to arrive in the Bayern penalty area.
12 Apr ☀️ 2024 20.43 BST 42 min: Oof!
Arnaut Danjuma is put through on Bayern goal, chasing an Etienne Capoue through ball.
☀️ He lashes the ball wide of the upright with the outside of his left boot after a heavy
touch and ☀️ it’s a bad miss. He looked offside so it probably wouldn’t have counted if he
had scored.
Updated at 20.43 BST
