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The reigning champion of Europe puts one and a half feet in the quarter-finals.
EFE
Bayern Munich on Tuesday crushed Lazio 4-1 at the Roman Olympic Stadium in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 and returned to the maximum continental competition in a steamroller plan, which they face as current champions. and want to go for it. Lake.
The goals of the Polish Robert Lewandowski, the Englishman Jamal Musiala, the youngest goalscorer in the history of Bayern in the Champions League with 17 years and 363 days, the German Leroy Sané and an own goal by Francesco Acerbi left the pass in the quarter-finals from Hansi Flick.
There were hardly any options for Lazio, whose only goal came 0-4 after fifty minutes, the work of a combination between the Spaniard Luis Alberto and the Argentinian Joaquín Correa.
Ecuadorian forward Felipe Caicedo was an observer that day, as he stayed on the replacement bench of the Roman squad.
The big European nights awoke Bayern after the latest setbacks in the Bundesliga against Arminia Bielefeld (3-3) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1-2), mainly due to the hangover from the 2020 Club World Cup won in Qatar, and at the roman olympic, Hansi Flick’s men showed their enormous strength without increasing the rhythms.
They set their superior European record from the first minute, with six European Cups, and shut down a Lazio who returned from the Champions League twenty years later (second absolute time) and paid for his lack of experience.
Despite arriving in Rome with only 17 players and illustrious casualties such as Germans Thomas Müller and Serge Gnabry, French Corentin Tolisso or Brazilian Douglas Costa, the reigning European champion was dominant, taking a triple advantage before halftime.
In the 9th minute, he took advantage of a gift from Argentinian Mateo Musacchio, who missed a defensive pass to Spanish goalkeeper Pepe Reina, to continue with Lewandowski and extended distances in the 23 minute from Musiala’s hand, with a target that converted him at 17 years and 363 days into the youngest goalscorer in Bayern’s Champions League history, having also been like that in the Bundesliga, taking that mark from Paraguayan Roque Santa Cruz.
On the brink of half-time, after a good save by Reina, a former Bayern player, on Lewandowski’s shot, Sané happily signed the 3-0 goal after a rejection by the Lazio goalkeeper. left a trail.
An own goal from Francesco Acerbi in the first minute of the restart seemed to pave the way for another great victory, already seen last year with the 8-2 against FC Barcelona, but Lazio managed to overcome the setback with the 1- 4 from Correa.
The Tucu He took advantage of an assist from Luis Alberto to dive into the penalty area and beat German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
It was 1-4 that the reverse of Simone Inzaghi’s men qualified against a Bayern who limited themselves to managing the rhythms to the end and that gave Munich a result that put them a foot and a half into the quarter-finals. (D)