Bavarian dominance in the Champions League

By: Luis Imaña

The custom remains for the Bayern Munich after winning 2-0 over Barcelona for the second day of the Champions League. The Bavarians made the house respected and consolidate themselves as the leaders of group C.

With Robert Lewandowski eager to face his former team, which he defended for eight seasons, the blaugranas took to the field with the intention of taking possession of the ball and they did so for much of the first half.

Those led by Xavi Hernandez they had several opportunities to silence the Allianz Arena. However, the Catalan team forgave more than necessary and this was expensive in the complement.

The German cast gave a sample of its forcefulness at 50 ‘, when Lucas Hernández took advantage of a corner kick from Joshua Kimmich to advance the score with a header, imperceptible to Marc-André ter Stegen.

That annotation fell like a bucket of water to Barcelona, ​​​​which showed a downturn in the following minutes. This was managed by the Bavarian team to give the final blow at 54 ‘by means of Leroy Sane.

Lewandowski He tried by all means to break Manuel Neuer’s fence, but his former teammates, who know him perfectly, knew how to stop the Polish gunner in the last quarter of the field.

Despite the fact that Xavi moved the bench in search of a solution that would allow the ‘culés’ to rescue some point from the Allianz Arena, it did little to avoid a new defeat against the host.

With this result, Bayern Munich added its fifth consecutive victory against Barcelona in the European competition. The last time the Teutonic team lost to the Catalans was on May 6, 2015, 3-0 with goals from Lionel Messi (2) and Neymar Júnior.

Likewise, the reigning Bundesliga champions equaled the longest run of consecutive matches without losing in the UEFA Champions League group stage with 30 matches, mark that was established by Real Madrid between 2012 and 2017.

The team that commands Julian Nagelmann It is positioned at the top of its group with a perfect score, while the azulgranas occupy second place.

Both clubs will have to wait until Tuesday, September 4, the date on which they will play the third day. Bayern will host Viktoria Plzen and Barcelona will visit Inter Milan.

After a bad start to the Champions League against Napoli, the Liverpool He was able to get his first 3 points after beating Ajax 2-1. Those led by Jurgen Klopp They had a few last minutes of heart attack.

Those of Anfield gave the first blow to the score thanks to Salah (17 ‘), who was able to rediscover the long-awaited goal after 4 games without ‘wetting’ (3 in the Premier and 1 in the Champions League).

Nevertheless, Mohammed Kudus He appeared at 27 ‘to put equality and take away the joy of Liverpool. When it seemed that the ‘reds’ were left with only 1 point, Joel Matip surprised at 89 ‘with a header that sentenced the victory of the English team.

without many complications, the Inter de Milan defeated Viktoria Plzen 2-0 at the Doosan Arena and gets into the fight for the pass to the round of 16.

In the absence of Lautaro Martinez Waiting for his opportunity to come on from the bench, Dzeko was in charge of scoring the first of the ‘neroazzurris’ with a definition at the far post.

The Bosnian attacker would also have an impact on the second and last goal of the match, since he assisted Dumfries (70 ‘) for the Dutchman to achieve the victory of Inter, which is in third place with the same score as Barcelona.

The other matches ended as follows: Sporting Lisbon-Tottenham (2-0), Bayer Leverkusen-Atlético Madrid (2-0), Marseille-Frankfurt (0-1) and Porto-Bruges (0-4).

After starting the Champions League on the right foot in the victory against Celtic, Real Madrid will fight to climb to the top of Group F today (2:00 pm) against RB Leipzig at the Santiago Bernabéu.

Likewise, Erling Haaland has a tremendous thirst for goals and will try to quench it when Manchester City hosts Borussia Dortmund (2:00 pm).

On the other hand, PSG, with Lionel Messi, Neymar Júnior and Kylian Mbappé as their stellar offensive trident, will come out with the sole slogan of taking the 3 points today (2:00 pm) against Maccabi Haifa at the Sammy Ofer stadium.

Xavi Hernandez, Barcelona coach

“We were better than Bayern, we matched them physically and we dominated the ball. I’m angry as it was a game to win and we lost it because we forgave. We had very clear chances”.

Source-larepublica.pe