In the early morning of September 14, Beijing time, the second round of the Champions League group stage Group C ushered in a focus battle, Bayern Munich home to Barcelona. In the first half, under barca's consecutive attacks, Levan missed three great opportunities, facing his old club in poor shape, in addition, the referee missed a penalty, Bayern escaped the disaster.
Last season, Barca lost 3-0 at home and away to Bayern, the team once again missed the Champions League knockout stage after 21 years, and it was also the 26th consecutive year that bayern did not win away from Bayern, and this time visiting the Allianz Arena again naturally hopes to complete revenge.
This is the most expensive matchup in the group stage of the new Season Champions League, with Bayern Munich worth 847 million euros and Barcelona worth 781 million euros, more than 1.6 billion euros. The two teams have met in a total of 11 times in the Champions League, with Barca winning 2, drawing 1 and losing 8, including the last four consecutive losses to Bayern.
In this game, both teams sent the strongest starters, Barca as the away team, Dembele, Rafinha, Lewandowski led the front trident, Bayern did not show weakness, Sane Musiara, Müller, Mane four major attackers to play together.
After the opening, the two teams directly attacked each other, and neither of them was conservative. In the 8th minute, Alfonso Davis drove straight in with the ball, Müller received the ball and then split on the right, And Sane slipped and missed a good chance to shoot. In the 9th minute, Garvey crossed and Pedri's low shot was blocked by Neuer. In the 17th minute, Garvey sent a cross that Lewan shot just over the crossbar from the penalty area.
In the 20th minute, Alonso sent a cross from the left and Levan's close-range header in front of goal was saved by Neuer, missing another opportunity. Barca then had a clear offensive advantage, and in the 42nd minute, Levan's shot from inside the box was blocked by Mazrawi's flying body, which was the third time the Barca striker wasted a chance in the first half.
After joining Barca in the new season, Levan returned to the Allianz Arena for the first time, completing 5 shots on goal and only 1 shot on target in the first half, and 3 excellent opportunities were missed, facing the old club.
Bayern didn't concede a goal in the first half, and in addition to Levine's poor form, there was luck. Alfonso Davis once reached out to intercept Dembele, who fell inside the Bayern penalty area, and slow motion showed that Alfonso Davis did not touch the ball, so the foul happened to be in the box, so Barca should have received a penalty and was eventually ignored by the referee.
According to statistics, Bayern have achieved an unbeaten record of 26 wins and 3 draws in their last 29 Champions League group matches, and the last loss was a 3-0 away defeat to Paris in September 2017, so it is difficult for Barca to end this record.