A lot of Khabi for a little Mora
Bayer Leverkusen, led by Xabi Alonso, was too strong for Milan, in which Alvaro Morata had only 30 minutes due to injury. it was not enough to prevent Aspirin’s team winning 1-0 and claiming the second of two Champions League victories. Judging by what we saw over the course of 90 minutes, the result was fair, given the monologue of the local residents who were eventually presented with the award. Boniface’s decisive goal in the second period. After this, the Italian team showed character and courage and tried to draw the game but lost, partly due to again excellent play from goalkeeper Hradecky between the sticks. Habineta is gaining momentum.
New developments took place in both teams. In the German corner, Xabi Alonso wanted to give Andric some rest and chose former Girona native Aleix Garcia to partner Xhaka in Team Aspirin’s double turn. On the Italian corner Morata remains on the bench with thigh discomfort this made it impossible for him to jump onto the BayArena grass. Leverkusen didn’t care. It didn’t take long for the German champion to take the lead in the match and intimidate the Milan team, who were mere spectators in the first half and ended up not falling behind on the scoreboard because Frimpong was ruled offside when he sent a delightful cross from the right towards Boniface. for the Nigerian to send it into the net. Frimpong himself also had some problems due to the passivity of the Milan defense, but both he and the rest of the Germans did not perform very well in the final meters.
The break did nothing to change the dynamics of the Leverkusen team, which continued to persevere as soon as it returned to the field and finally, seven minutes after the restart, received more than deserved reward. Wirtz, as always in the center, filtered out Grimaldo’s excellent ball, the Dutchman’s shot was saved by Maignan, but The rejection fell on Boniface and he did not forgive the murderer. The BayArena hall erupted with joy, but again almost fell silent due to Reynders’ shot from close range from the area in which Hradecki once again became the savior of the Rhineland. The match failed. Milan woke up. Bayer is broken. Maura entered. And he gave wings to some Rossoneri who Twice Theo and the Spaniards scored a drawing goal. which ended first on the crossbar and then on the road. This was most clear. And the only one. There was no time for more.
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Changes
Alvaro Morata (61′, Tammy Abraham), Martin Terrier (74′, Victor Boniface), Robert Andrich (74′, Aleix Garcia), Samuel Chukwueze (78′, Christian Pulisic), Exequiel Palacios (81′, Amin Adli), Nathan Tella (88′, Florian Wirtz), Zhanuel Belosyan (88′, Alex Grimaldo)
Goals
1:0, 50 minutes: Victor Oko Boniface
Cards
Referee: Sandro Scherer
VAR Referee: Fedayi Sun, Paul van Boekel
Aleix Garcia (7 feet, yellow), Jeremy Frimpong (73 minutes, Yellow), Mora (83 minutes, Yellow), Chukwueze (92 minutes, Yellow), Fikayo Tomori (94 minutes, Yellow)