Eliminated in the Cup by a rival from the Third Division, defeated in the Bundesliga by the team formed by who started from caution towards enthusiasm and found an invigorating victory that leaves him one step away from equaling his best campaign in the highest continental competition, now 24 years ago. It was another Lazio that was then walking towards its second and for now last League title. Now, a team with fewer resources takes care of a lethargic giant. There may be a comeback in the return duel in Munich, but it is difficult to imagine, today, this Bayern among the favorites to win the gold at Wembley on June 1.
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Ivan Provedel, Hysaj (Manuel Lazzari, 60 minutes), Romagnoli, Adam Marusic, Gila Fuentes (Patrick, 81 minutes), Luis Alberto (Daichi Kamada, 81 minutes), Cataldi, Matteo Guendouzi, Felipe Anderson, Gustav Isaksen. Peter, min. 73) and Immobile (Valentine Castellanos, min. 74)
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Neuer, Raphael Guerreiro, Dayotchanculle Upamecano, Noussair Mazraoui, Kim Min-Jae, Leon Goretzka (Matthijs de Ligt, min. 72), Joshua Kimmich, Sane (Mathys Tel, min. 81), Jamal Musiala, Müller (Choupo-Moting, min. 81) y Kane
Goals 1-0 min. 69: Immobile.
Referee François Letexier
Yellow cards Joshua Kimmich (min. 68)
red cards Dayotchanculle Upamecano (min. 66)
The Bavarian team fell in Rome after a game in which it was more, but in which it collapsed with very little and once again showed problems in putting together passes with a certain greed in the opposite field. It seems like a denaturalized team that cannot anchor itself to the dictates of talents like Musiala or Kane and in which some veterans do not quite step aside. The cocktail is completed by some dubious defender, such as the highly overrated Dayot Upamecano, a usual suspect who once again made a fatal mistake for his team: he entered like an elephant in a junkyard to cover a shot by Isaksen that had already left the boots from the Danish winger. Upamecano stepped on his ankle with a crash and the referee not only awarded the penalty but sent him off for violent play. And that inside the area already says a lot about the reliability of a defender.
Lazio decided the match in that action. Immobile did not forgive and Bayern were sorry because after the goal, for almost half an hour, he did not even tickle his rival and before, when he did, he did not manage to double it. They played without the greatness that Bayern is supposed to have, which came close to scoring with a direct free kick from Sané before the break or with a shot from Musiala on the only opportunity in which they put together a football puzzle on the balcony of the rival area. The rest was nothing against a Lazio pushed by the magician Luis Alberto, whose class continues to fall out of his pockets. With a little more continuity in their appearances, Bayern would have suffered even more.
However, it was enough for Lazio to dream of an unexpected success in a tie that could even put more face into the final stretch of the match in which it found space to hit. He hurt Bayern and their very controversial coach. For a great man who digests defeat so poorly, what Thomas Tuchel is serving is too indigestible.