To the rhythm of Jhon Durán, Aston Villa defeated the giant Bayern Munich

After 41 years of waiting, Villa Park once again enjoyed the best club competition and was able to savor it with a victory delivered by Durán, the Colombian who has become Unai Emery’s secret weapon and the one he turns to when he needs to unblock a match. .

In a vibrant atmosphere, with a tifo of the Villa players with Emery in the center, those from Birmingham did not come out scared against the a priori ogre of Bayern. If four decades ago the Bavarians were favorites with Breitner, Rumenigge and Hoeness, it was logical to think that with Kane, Olise and Davies they would be again.

But the fireworks that colored Villa Park to welcome the Champions gave way to a match in which Bayern was never comfortable and in which Villa took the lead after 22 minutes in a definition by Pau Torres with the toe. The goal was the first scored in the Champions League in this stadium since the 1982 quarterfinals, when Paolo Rossi scored for Juventus.. But then VAR did not exist as it does now and the technology detected an offside at the beginning of Jacob Ramsey’s play.

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The goal was disallowed and with Ramsey injured, each of the two teams suffered from a flank. Bayern, for the always noted Upamecano, who was in the race with Ollie Watkins; Villa, with Lucas Digne, constantly attacked by Olise.

The Frenchman, an old acquaintance of the Premier for his past in the Crystal Palace, He had the best one for the Germans, in a screwed shot from outside the area that aimed at the squad and that sent Emi Martínez flying with a changed hand.

With a certain slowness and heaviness, the match reached the final moments with Bayern anxious, very advanced, and Villa pending the movements of Emerywho brought in Durán with twenty minutes left to continue exploiting the soft Upamecano.

The Spaniard’s decision took ten minutes to pay. Torres, with the bad taste in his mouth of the disallowed goal, retaliated with a forty-meter pass from the defense that raced for the Colombian. He struggled with Upamecano, made space and without needing to look at the goal, lifted the ball over Neuer, whom he punished for his habit of always being outside the area.

To round off the night, with Bayern hanging on the crossbar in the last minute, ‘Dibu’ saved a header from Kane that would have been 1-1 and gave the three points to the ‘Villains’, who have won both games in this group stage.

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