A goal in the 90th minute deprives Salzburg of the joy of beating Bayern
French Kingsley Coman saved his Bayern Munich team from a sudden loss against its host Red Bull Salzburg, by achieving a 1-1 draw in the last breaths yesterday in the first leg of the first leg of the Champions League final.
Junior Adamo opened the scoring for Salzburg (21), while Koeman scored the equalizer for Bayern (90).
Bayern Munich, the 2020 title holder, entered its match against Salzburg as a candidate to put a foot in the quarter-finals, but he collided with a fighting team until the last breath.
With this draw, Bayern continued a streak of 22 matches away from home in the Champions League, as its last loss dates back to the group stage against Paris Saint-Germain in September 2017, the longest streak in the history of the tournament.
The Bavarian team almost received a second slap, reminding it that every match has its accounts, after it suffered an unexpected resounding defeat against its humble host Bochum in the local league 2-4 last week.
Bayern finished the group stage with six victories, including two at the expense of Barcelona, to repeat what he also did in the 2019-2020 season when he went and achieved the title in the final at the expense of Saint-Germain.
As for Red Bull Salzburg, it was the surprise of the first round, and it managed to reach the playoffs of the most important continental championship for the first time in its history, when it came second in its group behind Lille of France and against Seville of Spain.
The two teams had previously met in the group stage last season, and the Bavarian team came out victorious in the two matches (6-2 and 3-1).
Despite a star-studded squad, most notably Poland's top scorer Robert Lewandowski, who scored nine goals in six matches in the group stage, the Bavarian team was unable to decipher its host throughout the match.
And in a match in which coach Julian Nagelsmann's team missed international goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after he underwent surgery on his knee, and was replaced by Sven Ullrich, Salzburg was a race to open the scoring, specifically in the 21st minute. The Salzburg coach had to make an emergency substitution after his Swiss striker Noah Okafor was injured, to push Adamo replaced him in the 12th minute. Nine minutes later, from a quick counterattack, the ball reached Adamo inside the penalty area, so the latter succeeded in cornering it with his right to the left of Ulrich (21).
And as the first half ended with the visitors advancing, Bayern showed determination to equalize in the second half.
His players tried on more than one occasion to penetrate the defense and shoot from outside, but without result.
Salzburg almost finished the match ten minutes before its end, but Ulrich was on the lookout for more than one shot. While the match was heading for a resounding loss for Bayern, the Frenchman Benjamin Bavar sent a cross towards Thomas Muller's head, to pass the ball and prepare for Koeman, who put him with a direct touch into the net , scoring a goal in the killer time (90).
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