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Villarreal never tires of swimming against the tide.

After eliminating Juventus in the round of 16, they took out one of the main favorites to lift this Champions League and, for the second time in their history, they are in the semi-finals.

Unai Emery's team showed that the victory of the first leg was not the result of chance and with great doses of suffering and sacrifice they knew how to withstand the Bayern downpour, maintain serenity when Lewandowski leveled the tie and put the finishing touch with Chukwueze's blow at the decisive moment.

Bayern entrusted themselves to the spirit of Gerd Müller, whose face contemplated the departure of the teams from one of the funds.

Goals like the ones the German striker used to score were what Nagelsmann's team needed, forced to come back from 1-0 in the first leg and, to do so, significantly improve the poor performance they offered at La Cerámica.

The Bavarian coach sought to give his team a more offensive look from eleven, dispensing with Alphonso Davies to play behind with three defenders.

Coman and Sané were the ones who acted as lanes and tried to open the field.

In fact, a good part of the first attempts of a Bayern that found themselves facing the same Villarreal from the first leg, in terms of names and approach, passed through their feet.

Emery's team had no problem giving the initiative to their rival, who clearly dominated pushed by the stands.

What does not give the fans encouragement are ideas to attack a block as solid as the one that the Castellón team put together to protect Rulli.

With two lines of four very close behind Gerard and Danjuma, the yellows defended themselves with order and without letting themselves be intimidated by the atmosphere in Munich.

As in the first leg, there was no news of Lewandowski, who surely as a result of his frustration earned a yellow card after nailing Albiol with his studs.

Neither the Pole appeared nor did Müller.

Bayern's main and almost only resource was to open up the right wing so that Sané could hang the ball into the area without rhyme or reason.

This is how the only shot of the Germans on goal came, after a cross from Goretzka that Musiala headed too focused to surprise Rulli.

Villarreal lacked, perhaps, to scare Bayern on the counterattack, as they did in the second half at La Cerámica, and they achieved it just before half-time.

Danjuma, offside, finished off a ball filtered by Lo Celso, again at a high level, taking the ball from behind.

And already in the addition it was Gerard who crashed the ball into the side of the net after a good combination resulting from a robbery in the three-quarter zone.

The Bayern that came back from the locker room was another team.

Suddenly, the overwhelming version that was expected from the beginning appeared and now it did begin to harass the yellow players.

With the same plan but executing it at greater speed, the Germans found the first cracks in Villarreal's defence, which no longer seemed so secure.

Upamecano warned by finishing off a Sané shipment high from the baseline and only two minutes later Lewandowski appeared to finally bring down the wall.

The action was born in a bad ball out by Parejo.

Coman intercepted the pass and sent it into the area, where Müller enabled the Polish striker's impeccable shot, very close to the post.

The goal gave wings to a unleashed Bayern in which Coman now joined the offensive from the left making Foyth suffer unspeakably.

Müller finished off any ball that fell into the area and was very close to scoring a cross from Sané, although Bayern's momentum was decreasing as the end approached, trying not to take too many risks and hoping to finish maturing their rival in the extension.

But Emery didn't have the same script.

The Basque coach waited for Nagelsmann's first movement to respond with a key change.

Chukwueze entered and his speed was what Villarreal had been waiting for all night.

In the first against that the Nigerian hunted, he received from Gerard and subtly raised before Neuer's stretch to silence the Allianz and make only the screams of the 1,500 yellow fans be heard.

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