FC Bayern is scratched past a historical embarrassment in the Champions League: In the last minute of stoppage time, Alphonso Davies saved the Munich-based company with his late goal to 1-1 in the playoff secondary against Celtic Glasgow.
Until the 94th minute, Celtic had fallen behind by Nicolas Kühn (63rd minute), after the 2-1 away win in the first leg that would have meant the extension. But then Joker Davies was shot on the goal line after a flank by Michael Olise when the Scots attempted to clarify – the flattering reaching of the top 16 was secured and the dream of playing the final on May 31 in his own stadium lives on.
“Just an incredible relief”
Davies then said at Prime: “We had already expected that it was getting hard and Celtic played good pressing. In the end it was an incredible relief. I knew that we were at 90 plus four minutes and decided to go into the box – then I have Just keep your foot. “
Leon Goretzka, who had failed in front of the Davies dust from a short distance from Celtic keeper Kasper Schmeichel, admitted: “I stand in his fault, I should have had to hit myself from a distance. But what matters is that we achieve the right results, even if we don’t play the stars from the sky.”
Bavaria for the first time with luxury cast
For the first time this season, Vincent Kompany had the full chapel, accordingly the bank cast can already be found like a royal class-compatible starting line-up: Alphonso Davies, Leroy Sané, Joao Palinha, Thomas Müller, Kingsley Coman, Eric Dier and Aleksandar Pavlovic had to watch from outside at the kick -off.
They saw like the 75,000 in the sold -out arena, which would have been the leading pressure of the host, which would have taken the lead almost after three minutes: Michael Olise served Serge Gnabry on the long post with a butter -soft flank, but whose header clarified Alistair Johnston shortly before the line .
Bavaria builds Celtic on
But the visual superiority of the Munich culminated seamlessly into a fatal mix of nonchalance and arrogance. After a ball loss from Olise, Callum McGregor ran towards Manuel Neuer alone, but clearly grimaced in front of the goal (7th). This did not serve as a warning, on the contrary, it was the beginning of a chain of other Bayern dropouts on the defensive and great opportunities for Celtic.
But they all failed to do the Scots: Ex-Bayern amateur Nicolas Kühn had already overcome new things after a double mistake by Josip Stanisic and Dayot Upamecano, but Raphael Gurreo clarify the defeated keeper on the line.
Upamecano fails again – Maeda too hectic
Shortly afterwards, the former Augsburg Arne Engels fit sharply in the middle, but Daizen Maeda narrowly slid past the ball. At the latest in the 18th minute the 0: 1 was overdue, but after the next blatant dropout of the recently so strong Upamecano, Maeda lost her nerve and again freely closed too hectically from new ones.
It was only after 20 minutes that Bayern got some rest into their game, reduced the mistakes in the structure and recaptured control in the middle of the field. However, there was hardly any danger to the cleverly defending guests, only immediately before the break it became tight: the defensively susceptible Stanisic had broken through on the right and had played perfectly back to the penalty point – Harry Kane shot out of latte without hesitation.
Kane has to get out of the break
It was Kane’s last action, in view of his calf injury, Kompany brought Coman to the second half and moved Gnabry to the storm center. Coman was on the air immediately, sent Leon Goretzka down after just a few seconds, but shot down freely in front of the goal Kasper Schmeichel.
But the pressure quickly let up, the Bavarians made themselves surprisingly comfortable despite the geriatric score and the abolished away gate rule. The tough punishment followed in the 63rd minute – by Kühn, who played 37 times for the second team of Munich, but was rated as too weak for a professional contract and was sold to Rapid Vienna for 500,000 euros.
This time it was not an individual mistake this time, but like those three in series: Stanisic, Guerreiro and at the end Min-Jae Kim with a senseless gräsche into the void, the preliminary work that Kühn exploited ice cold.
Bavaria wakes up, Schmeichel holds great
Only then did Munich seem to understand that this evening actually threatened that they actually threatened: that would certainly not be located on the top shelf before the round of 16 against an internationally. The Munich team increased the number of strokes, had good opportunities through Goretzka’s header (74th), Sanés Schlenzer (77th) and Kimmich’s distance shot (79th): Schmeichel’s reflexes or the lack of accuracy of Bavaria prevented the equalization – the DAVies then actually prevented the Davies still worried in the 94th minute.