Bayern Munich won in Rome against Lazio (4-1) on Tuesday, in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League. The Bavarians, with a very weakened workforce, have almost composted their ticket for the quarters.
And to think that we were announcing a feverish Bayern Munich. Decreased, he was, especially by the wounds. Moreover, the reigning European champion was at the rendezvous in Rome, in his round of 16 first leg of the Champions League against Lazio, completely dominated (4-1) in his stadium. Simone Inzaghi’s players have suffered the law of an implacable Bayern, undefeated for 18 games in the queen competition, now. Lazio, who returned to this stage of the competition after 20 years of absence, made too many mistakes to exist at this level.
Argentina’s Mateo Musacchio, who took advantage of the absence of Luiz Felipe and Stefan Radu, in central defense, to take a starting jersey, scuttled his team on a gross lack of appreciation, which benefited Robert Lewandowski from the start (9th). The Polish striker intercepted a very bad pass back from the defender to adjust poor Pepe Reina, no more inspired by a bad kick start, full axis, which almost benefited Bayern. Fortunately, the veteran goalkeeper recovered with a left foot save in front of Lewandowski (35th).
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The score was already 2-0 in favor of the Bavarians after a nice movement concluded by Musiala (24th), the new nugget of Bayern, for his first goal in the competition. And Musacchio, guilty on the Bavarian opening scoring, was replaced prematurely by Senad Lulic, without this changing anything in the face of this match.
On the contrary, Bayern Munich continued to exploit all the hesitations of the Roman defense. After a disagreement between two Lazio players, Coman accelerated to enter the box, and, seeing that he had no solution behind, made a hook to get into a striking position with his left foot.
Pepe Reina pushed back for the first time, but was unable to prevent Leroy Sané from scoring (42nd), nor the Italian defense from following the former Manchester City striker in his dribbles. Ask Acerbi, who did not see himself put the ball at the back of his own net (47th), or Patric, who was nicely caught by the same Sané to the left of the area, on the same action.
Admittedly, Correa quickly reduced the score in the second half, when he seemed offside (49th), and Lazio could have benefited from a penalty in the first half (18th), but the gap was huge between these two teams. Bayern Munich retain the stated ambition to retain their title, despite an over-requested squad. A feat accomplished only by Real Madrid in the modern era.
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