Benfica’s Andreas Schjelderup struck within the first half to seal a 1-0 win over Bayern Munich in sweltering warmth on Tuesday, sending the Portuguese aspect to the highest of Group C on the Membership World Cup.
After securing their first-ever victory over Bayern, Benfica will face Chelsea or Esperance de Tunis within the final 16. Bayern, ending second, are set to face Group D leaders Flamengo.
“I feel our first half wasn’t good in any respect. With the pitch and the warmth, I simply feared this would not go as fluid as regular,” Bayern coach Vincent Kompany instructed DAZN.
“It is soccer. When you have probabilities and do not take them, you pay the value… [against Flamengo] it should be a troublesome sport. We all know we are able to create probabilities.”
Schjelderup broke the impasse after 13 minutes with a first-time end off Fredrik Aursnes’ low cross from the proper, capitalising on a lapse in Bayern’s backline.
With Bayern already assured of a spot within the subsequent spherical, their rotated lineup lacked urgency. The Germans improved after the break and Joshua Kimmich thought he had equalised, however his effort was dominated out for Harry Kane being offside.
Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin performed a key position in preserving the lead, producing sharp saves to disclaim Aleksandar Pavlovic and Leroy Sané.
“It was a superb sport towards a tremendous crew, it was not solely me, it was the entire crew,” stated Trubin, who was named man of the match. “It was extraordinarily scorching, however we did our job.”
Benfica supervisor Bruno Lage stated his crew got here into the match with a number of confidence regardless of a file of no wins, three attracts and 10 losses to Bayern within the membership’s historical past.
“The primary half was excellent, we created the very best probabilities to attain. We wished to be aggressive and we completed first within the group and the sensation is nice,” Lage stated. “We completed first and it means lots for us. Individuals have to imagine extra within the work we’re doing. They had been talking about Boca needing to win by a number of targets [to advance] and so they forgot about this sport.
“Nobody believed we had been going to win towards Bayern.”
Info from Reuters was used on this story.
