Chapter 1040 Who Can Stop Vera?
Schmidt is eager for his team to score goals as soon as possible and try to narrow the gap in the score.
In this way, there is still a glimmer of hope to visit New Vera Park Stadium in the second round.
Wishes are beautiful.
Reality is cruel.
In the 66th minute of the game, Sanchez got the ball in the frontcourt and he and De Bruyne made a wall-to-wall cooperation.
Then before Bellabi came to block it, he brought a long shot from the top of the penalty area.
Cialhanoglu jumped up and blocked the shot.
The football hit Cialhanolu's waist and showed a refraction.
Leverkusen goalkeeper Leno tried all his strength and reluctantly saved the football.
Papadopoulos pushed the football outward.
Outside the penalty area, Pogba squeezed out Bend and pushed the ball back.
Lewandowski stopped the ball in his chest and tried to stop the football. Castro came over from the side and stretched his foot and touched it. The football bounced away.
However, football is not out of Lewandowski's control.
The Polish center took a step forward and walked to the football. His wide body just blocked Leverkusen's central defender Spasic behind him.
Spasic knew what Lewandowski was going to do, and he wanted to stop him, but he found that he couldn't squeeze through.
The defender of Leverkusen watched Lewandowski turn around successfully with him as the axis!
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"Lewandowski! Turn around! Beautiful! He turned around!"
"Sparsic! He was completely stuck! He had no choice but to use Lewandowski!"
Amid the exclamations of the commentators, Lewandowski turned his body to the side and then swung his right foot!
Shoot with strong right foot!
The football flew suddenly toward the goal.
Although Leverkusen's goalkeeper Leno had tried his best to save, such a strong shot from close range made the ball very fast, and the football was aimed at the upper left corner of the goal, and the angle was also very tricky.
Leno is really powerless about this ball.
While Leno was flying into the ball and his body was still in the air, the football had already swept over his palm and crashed into the goal, rolling up the snow-white net high!
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“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaal!”
"Lewandowski! Lewandowski! Robert Lewandowski! Four-to-one! Aston Villa leads Leverkusen three goals in Bayer Arena!"
"Four-to-one! Leading three goals and getting four away goals, it's hard for us to have any optimism about Leverkusen's promotion prospects."
"This goal was a huge blow to Schmidt and his team!"
Seeing Lewandowski scored such a wonderful turn and scored a goal, Fang Jue raised his arms high and clenched his fists hard.
This ball entered.
Four to one!
This game is stable.
Not only is this game stable, Aston Villa's ticket to the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season has almost been obtained in advance.
No team will be turned around in the second leg with a four-to-one away lead in the first leg.
In the camera, Leverkusen head coach Schmidt looked extremely disappointed. He spread his hands and shook his head.
Schmidt was in a bad mood and angry.
However, his anger was not sure where to vent.
The player who is not Leverkusen is not performing well, but Aston Villa is too strong.
This gap in strength makes Schmidt even more helpless.
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With a four-to-one lead, Aston Villa head coach Fang Jue began to make frequent substitutions.
He replaced the Korean young player Sun Xingmin with the outstanding performance of Mane.
Ten minutes later, Lewandowski, who performed well today, was replaced, and Belgian "Little Warcraft" Lukaku came on as a substitute.
This substitution quickly received a miraculous effect.
In the 81st minute of the game, Sun Xingmin broke through on the wing and made a cross. De Bruyne stretched out his foot in front of the goal, and the football hit the post and bounced.
Lukaku beat Leverkusen defender Papadopoulos and headed the ball into an empty goal.
“Gooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Lukaku! The Belgian who came on the bench scored a goal, 5-1, and this goal can be said to have completely killed the suspense of the second leg."
At the last moment of the game, Fang Jue replaced Modric with Kante.
The scores did not change again for the remaining minutes of the game.
In the end, in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals of the 2014/2015 season, Aston Villa defeated the Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen five-1 away.
In everyone's opinion, Aston Villa has entered the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season ahead of schedule.
After the game, The Times used the title of "Unstopped Villa's 'lock to the quarterfinals' in advance".
The Guardian, Birmingham Evening News and other media also praised Aston Villa.
And here in Germany, there is a terrible tide.
The Germans can accept Leverkusen's loss, after all, the gap between the two teams is obvious.
However, Leverkusen lost 1-5 directly at home, and such a crushing defeat still shocked the German football world.
German football legend Mattus analyzed the reasons for Leverkusen's crushing defeat in his column. He bluntly criticized Leverkusen's midfield for being too weak.
"In this game at Bayer Arena, we hardly saw any strong interception in the midfield. Yes, the players seemed to work hard, but I couldn't see the effect of their efforts. At some moments, the Aston Villas were almost galloping on the streets in the early morning..."
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Aston Villa defeated Leverkusen, leaving Leverkusen and German football a mess.
They returned to the Premier League and did not weaken their strong momentum at all.
In the 26th round of the Premier League, Aston Villa defeated Stoke City five-2 at home.
Kaka, Mane, Lukaku, Modric and full-back Kimmich, five players scored one goal in the first and second half, and Aston Villa scored five goals in two consecutive games.
A week later, in the 27th round of the Premier League, Aston Villa defeated Newcastle 1-0 away.
Aston Villa bombarded the whole game and never scored a goal.
Just as the commentators were cheering, saying that Aston Villa's record of winning the season was about to end.
Yes, the commentator is not exclaiming, but cheering. As Fang Jue said before, the entire Premier League is now holding his breath to end Aston Villa's complete victory record.
In injury time, Modric, who came on the bench, scored with a beautiful direct free kick, winning the game.
Chapter completed!