Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:05 PM IST
Summary
The second leg of the pre-quarterfinals was played on Tuesday night in the Champions League, the world’s biggest club football tournament. Despite the defeat, Liverpool reached the quarterfinals. At the same time, Bayern Munich defeated Salzburg to secure their place in the last-eight.
Robert Lewandowski
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The second leg of the pre-quarterfinals was played on Tuesday night in the Champions League, the world’s biggest club football tournament. In this, Liverpool lost against Inter Milan. At the same time, Bayern Munich thrashed FC Red Bull Salzburg badly. Liverpool reached the quarterfinals despite losing 0–1 in the second leg. In fact, they defeated Inter 2-0 in the first leg. In this way the total score in both the matches was 2-1 in favor of Liverpool.
Talking about Germany’s number-one club Bayern Munich, the first leg against Salzburg of Austria ended in a 1-1 draw. Bayern’s team looked in tremendous form in the second leg on Tuesday. He did not give Salzburg a chance to survive. Bayern scored seven goals in the second leg. Salzburg’s team could only score one goal. In this way Bayern won the match 7-1. The overall score of both the legs together remained 8-2 in his favor.
Poland’s star player Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick goal for Bayern. He scored three goals in 11 minutes. Lewandowski scored the first goal on a penalty in the 12th minute. After this, in the 21st minute, the second goal was also scored on penalty. He scored the third goal in 23 minutes. Lewandowski was voted FIFA’s best footballer last year. Apart from him, Serge Gnabry scored 31st for Bayern, Thomas Müller 54th and 83rd, Laurie Sane scored in the 85th minute.
The match played between Liverpool and Inter was quite exciting. Inter played a great game at Anfield, Liverpool’s home ground. Argentina’s Lautero Martinez scored the first goal for him. However, two minutes later, his fellow striker Alexis Sanchez was shown a red card. He had to be out of the match. After this, the team of Inter Milan had to play with 10 players. The team had to score at least one goal to level, but Liverpool did not allow this to happen.
Two pre-quarterfinal matches will be played in the Champions League today (Wednesday). Real Madrid team will host France’s team Paris Saint-Germain in Madrid, Spain. Lionel Messi of Argentina, considered the best footballer in the world, will be seen on the field. They would like to take the team of PSAG to the quarterfinals anyway. While playing for Barcelona, he has given memorable performances several times at the home ground of Real Madrid. Will now play there for PSG for the first time. At the same time, in another match, England’s club Manchester City will face Portugal’s club Sporting.