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Polish striker Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick from his Bayern Munich team, and led him to sweep his guest Salzburg 7-1 on Tuesday in the second leg of the first leg of the Champions League football competition and qualify for the quarter-finals, after it was a 1-1 tie in the first leg. As for the English, Liverpool reached the quarter-finals, despite losing a home leg against Inter, 0-1, due to their 2-0 victory in the first leg last month.
bog down Liverpool, England At home against Inter, who lost 0-1 in the first leg, but that did not prevent him from reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, because he won the first leg 2-0, while he rose up Bayern Munich German And his Polish top scorer, Robert Lewandowski, in the best possible way, knocked the nets of Austrian Salzburg by seven (7-1) to reach the quarter-finals.
Liverpool suffered a rare loss against Inter at home at Anfield, with a goal scored by Argentine striker Lautaro Martinez in the 61st minute, but his Chilean teammate Alexis Sanchez received his second yellow card in the match three minutes later, to complicate the task of his team, which completed 26 minutes with ten players, in the possibility of overturning. The result is in his favour.
The loss is the first for Liverpool at home in various competitions, after keeping its record empty of it over 28 games in various competitions, knowing that the latter dates back to March 8, 2021, when it fell against Fulham in the English Premier League.
And returned to the ranks of Liverpool, the Spanish international midfielder Thiago Alcantara, who was injured during the warm-up period that preceded his team’s participation in the League Cup final against Chelsea on February 27 last.
On the other hand, the surprise at Inter was coach Simone Inzaghi’s decision not to include veteran Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko as a starter, preferring Chilean Sanchez to play alongside Martinis. However, Inzaghi was unable to count on suspended midfielder Nicolo Parilla.
Liverpool entered the match without losing in its last 12 matches in various competitions, as it won its seven matches so far in the Champions League and scored 19 goals, including 8 goals for its Egyptian star Mohamed Salah.
Inter had the most movement at the beginning of the match, without any danger to the Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker.
Salah: “Maybe in the next match I will score a hat-trick…”
On the other hand, Liverpool gradually entered the atmosphere of the match and had the most prominent opportunities in this half when its Cameroonian defender Joel Matip rose to the ball with his head, but the crossbar stood in the way of not entering the goal (30).
Turkish midfielder Hakan Chahalanoglu tried to deceive Alisson with a cunning shot from a direct free kick, but the Brazilian goalkeeper shoved it brilliantly (41).
In the second half, Inter tried to open the scoring to shake Liverpool’s confidence and succeeded in his quest when Martinis received a ball on the outskirts of the area, and fired it powerfully into the upper corner of Alisson’s goal (61).
However, the joy of the guests did not last long after Sanchez was sent off three minutes later.
There was a prominent opportunity for Liverpool to equalize when Senegalese Sadio Mane passed an elegant ball towards Salah, but the latter’s ball hit the post (75).
Mane played his 50th game in the Champions League, thus becoming the sixth player from Liverpool to reach this barrier in the continental competition with its new name since the 1992-93 season.
After qualifying, Salah said, “It is a team (Inter) that is difficult to play against. Even in the first leg, it was good.”
He continued, “In the second leg, we suffered a little bit at the beginning, but we kept the ball better in the second half. And with the red card… (It’s over).”
The Egyptian striker stressed that “the most important thing was to qualify, in the hope that the next match would be better,” talking about the chances he missed and his injury to the post twice, and “maybe in the next match I will score a hat-trick…”.
Bayern uprising
Bayern Munich, who was going through a period of weightlessness, and Poland’s star striker, Robert Lewandowski, scored in their last 3 matches, in the best possible way, by hammering Austrian Salzburg by seven (7-1) to reach the quarter-finals in a well-deserved manner.
The Bavarian team came out with a difficult draw 1-1 in the first leg, in a match during which Bayern kept its record free of loss outside its home in the continental competition for the 22nd consecutive match.
At the Allianz Arena, Lewandowski scored the “fastest hat-trick” since the start of the match in the history of the Champions League, because he needed only 23 minutes to give his team a 3-0 lead, including two goals from two penalties, raising his score to 12 goals in the prestigious competition this season, taking the top scorer. From Ajax Amsterdam Ivory Coast striker Sebastian Haller with 11 goals.
The Bavarian giants decided their place in the quarter-finals in a first half in one direction, specifically 31 minutes after the start of the whistle, thanks to Lewandowski’s “hat-trick” in the 12th and 21st minutes from penalty kicks and 23, and Serge Gnabry (31) whose coach Julian Nagelsmann decided to rest him between the two halves among several substitutions.
Bayern added three goals in the second half, with Thomas Muller two goals (54 and 84) and Leroy Sane (86), while Salzburg saved his honor with the goal of Danish substitute Morz Kiergaard (70).
International goalkeeper Manuel Neuer returned to guard the Bavarian club’s den after a month-long absence, the time it took him to recover from surgery, to strengthen a defense line that had suffered in recent weeks, while the absence of Canadian Alfonso Davis and Leon Goretzka continued to be injured, similar to the French Corentin Tolisso in return for the return of his compatriot Lucas. Hernandez to the starting lineup.
“We sent a message, with an exclamation point,” said Neuer, who regained the captain’s armband from his colleague Muller after returning to the stands. Let’s continue in the same vein.”
FRANCE 24/AFP