juan carlos garrido said "a balance between defence and attack" would be crucial as his villarreal cf look to counter an fc bayern münchen side in fearsome goalscoring form.
juan carlos garrido said his villarreal cf side were determined to make life difficult for fc bayern münchen in their uefa champions league group a opener, though the prospect of playing the final in their own home stadium may prove an extra incentive for jupp heynckes' side.
villarreal coach juan carlos garrido
in a game like this you need a balance between defence and attack. a lot of people see us as an attacking team in the way we play with the ball, but i try to instil that balance in my players. i want my team to start winning by being strong in defence. we will work hard at bayern; we are not going to make it easy for them.
villarreal are nobody's favourites to win, but the three points would shake up the group and give us a lot of encouragement. playing in the champions league has a huge impact for the city; it's the largest competition in the world, and the region and club are proud to see villarreal playing against top-level european teams. now what we need to do is work and fight to get as far as possible.
bayern coach jupp heynckes
we are getting back to our best and we are in good form, but in the champions league anything is possible, but like a lot of germans, we also see ourselves as being in with a chance of making it to the final in munich. my players will not look down their noses at villarreal.
spanish football is very competitive and villarreal are a great team. personally, my return to the champions league does not make me nervous. i am calm. i see it with a cool head. i don't feel different, but the emotions come on the matchday, and not the day before.
the four-time champions ended their hosts' run of nine straight home european victories thanks to a goal in each half from toni kroos and rafinha.
a powerful display of technically excellent and entertaining football gave fc bayern münchen victory at villarreal cf and the early advantage in uefa champions league group a.
the spanish side had won their previous nine european home games – and had never lost against german opposition at el madrigal – but struggled to get a foothold in a contest bayern controlled. goals in either half from toni kroos and substitute rafinha secured the points for the visitors, and with matches against ssc napoli and manchester city fc to come there is plenty of hard work ahead for juan carlos garrido's villarreal.
the clinical nature of bayern's early breakthrough set the tone for a first half they dominated. from the outset there was energy, conviction and muscle about jupp heynckes' men, who took the lead in the seventh minute. franck ribéry drew in marcos senna and marió gaspar on bayern's left and then cut back a clever pass to kroos on the edge of the area for a right-footed shot that flashed past diego lópez and into the far corner.
such was bayern's superiority that the home side were frequently outnumbered both with and without the ball, bastian schweinsteiger adding to the menace with a fierce low shot which lópez turned away. giuseppe rossi and nilmar tried valiantly to take the game towards manuel neuer's goal, the former collecting bruno soriano's lobbed pass and stinging the goalkeeper's palms.
unaffected, bayern constructed a lovely passing movement which started under pressure in their own box and ended with only miscommunication preventing ribéry from setting up a second goal for mario gomez. for all that, however, the away side's lead came close to disappearing before half-time, neuer fortuitously sitting on the ball to deny gaspar when unsighted.
gomez was replaced by nils petersen at the break and within two minutes the substitute twice had chances to make it two, lópez coming to villarreal's rescue on each occasion. petersen swiftly picked up the wavelength of kroos and ribéry, the trio producing some exceptionally quick, eye-catching interchanges.
lópez produced the save of the match to stop petersen's fierce bending shot nestling into the bottom corner but he was helpless when the 22-year-old cut the ball across the villarreal goal, kroos hitting the right-hand post at full stretch. bayern finally made the points safe 14 minutes from time, rafinha breaking on the left and thumping a shot under lópez at the near post to wrap up a well-deserved win.
yardımcı hakemler: bahattin duran (tur), tarik ongun (tur)
4. hakem: halis özkahya (tur)
çizgi hakemleri: süleyman abay (tur), tolga özkalfa (tur)
villarreal: diego lópez (gk), mateo musacchio, carlos marchena, nilmar (dk. 58 marco ruben), jonathan de guzmán (dk. 72 javier camuñas), cristián zapata, mario gaspar, josé catalá, marcos senna (c) (dk. 46 cani), bruno soriano, giuseppe rossi
bayern: manuel neuer (gk), daniel van buyten (dk. 23 rafinha), franck ribéry, jérôme boateng, philipp lahm (c), thomas müller, holger badstuber, bastian schweinsteiger, mario gomez (dk. 46 nils petersen), toni kroos (dk. 81 luiz gustavo), anatoliy tymoshchuk
yedekler: jörg butt (gk), takashi usami, diego contento, david alaba
teknik direktör: jupp heynckes (ger)
goller: dk. 7 toni kroos (0-1) dk. 76 rafinha (0-2)
sarı kartlar: dk. 53 anatoliy tymoshchuk, dk. 78 bastian schweinsteiger (bayern) dk. 56 carlos marchena (villarreal)
1. fc bayern münchen...1...1...0...0...2...0...2...3 2. ssc napoli...1...0...1...0...1...1...0...1 3. manchester city fc...1...0...1...0...1...1...0...1 4. villarreal cf...1...0...0...1...0...2...-2...0
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