The Glory of the Godfather

Schmidt is eager for his team to score goals as soon as possible and narrow the score gap as much as possible.

In this case, there is still a glimmer of hope for the second leg of the game at the new Villa Park.

Wishes are beautiful.

the reality is cruel.

In the 66th minute of the game, Sanchez took the ball in the frontcourt, and he and De Bruyne made a wall-hitting cooperation.

Then he grabbed a long shot at the top of the arc in the penalty area before Bella Rabi came to block.

Calhanoglu jumped up to block the shot.

The football rubbed against Charhanoglu's waist, and there was a refraction.

Leverkusen goalkeeper Leno tried his best and threw the football very reluctantly.

Papadopoulos kicks the football out.

Outside the penalty area, Pogba squeezed Bender away and pushed the football back.

Lewandowski chested the ball. He tried to stop the ball. Castro came over from the side and touched it with his foot. The ball bounced off.

Football, though, has not escaped Lewandowski's control.

I saw the Polish center forward took a step forward and walked in front of the football. His large body just blocked Leverkusen central defender Spasic behind him.

Spasic clearly knew what Lewandowski was going to do, and he wanted to stop it, but found that he couldn't squeeze through.

The Leverkusen defender watched Lewandowski use him as the axis and successfully forcibly turn around successfully!

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Lewandowski! Turn! Beautiful! He turned!

Spasic! He's completely stuck! There's nothing he can do about Lewandowski!

Amidst the exclamations of the commentators, Lewandowski turned his body sideways, and then swung his right foot!

Right foot strafing vigorously!

The football slams into the goal.

Although Leverkusen's goalkeeper Leno has tried his best to save, but such a close-range shot, the ball is very fast, the football is directed at the upper left corner of the goal, and the angle is also very tricky.

Leno couldn't do anything about the ball.

When Leno flew to catch the ball and his body was still in the air, the football passed quickly over his palm, crashed into the goal, and rolled up the snow-white net high!

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Goooooooooooooooooooaaaaaal!

Lewandowski! Lewandowski! Robert Lewandowski! Four to one! Aston Villa lead Leverkusen by three goals at the Bayer Arena!

Four to one! Leading by three goals and scoring four away goals, it is difficult for us to have any optimism about Leverkusen's promotion prospects.

This goal is a huge blow to Schmidt and his team!

Seeing Lewandowski score such a wonderful turnaround goal, Fang Jue on the sidelines raised his arms high and clenched his fists hard.

The ball goes in.

Four to one!

The game is solid.

Not only is this game stable, but Aston Villa's tickets to the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League have almost been obtained ahead of schedule.

No team is going to be overturned at home in the second leg after leading 4-1 away from the first leg.

In the camera, Leverkusen coach Schmidt looked very disappointed. He spread his hands and shook his head.

Schmidt was in a bad mood and angry.

However, he didn't know where to vent his anger.

It's not that Leverkusen's players are not performing well, it's that Aston Villa is too strong.

This gap in strength made Schmidt more painful and helpless.

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With a four-to-one lead, Aston Villa coach Fang Jue began to make frequent substitutions.

He replaced Mane, who performed well, with South Korean teenager Sun Xingmin.

Ten minutes later, Lewandowski, who performed equally well today, was replaced, and Belgium's little monster Lukaku came off the bench.

This substitution quickly received miraculous results.

In the 81st minute of the game, Sun Xingmin made a cross after breaking through from the side. De Bruyne stretched out his foot in front of the goal, and the football bounced off the post.

Lukaku overwhelmed Leverkusen defender Papadopoulos and headed the ball into the empty goal.

Goooooooooooooooal!

Lukaku! The Belgian who came off the bench scored, 5 to 1. This goal can be said to have completely killed the suspense of the second round.

At the end of the game, Fang Jue replaced Modric with Kanter.

In the remaining few minutes of the game, the score did not change again.

In the end, in the first round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in the 2014/2015 season, Aston Villa beat the Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen 5-1 away.

In everyone's eyes, Aston Villa has entered the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League ahead of schedule.

After the game, the Times used the headline Unstoppable Villa 'locked' the quarter-finals ahead of schedule.

The Guardian, Birmingham Evening News and other media also praised Aston Villa generously.

On the German side, there is a lot of grief.

The Germans can accept Leverkusen losing, after all, the gap between the two teams is obvious.

However, Leverkusen directly lost one to five at home, and such a fiasco still shocked the German football world.

German football star Matthaus analyzed the reasons for Leverkusen's fiasco in his column. He unceremoniously criticized Leverkusen's midfielder for being too weak.

In this game at the Bayer Arena, we didn't see any strong interceptions in the midfield. Yes, the players seem to work hard, but, I can't see the effect of their hard work. Aston Villa At certain moments, people are almost free to gallop on the streets in the early morning...

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Aston Villa's victory over Leverkusen left Leverkusen and German football with a lot of feathers.

They are back in the Premier League, showing no signs of waning their momentum.

In the twenty-sixth round of the Premier League, Aston Villa beat Stoke City 5-2 at home.

Kaka, Mane, Lukaku, Modric and full-back Kimmich, five players scored a goal in each half, Aston Villa scored five goals in two consecutive games.

A week later, in the twenty-seventh round of the Premier League, Aston Villa beat Newcastle 1-0 away.

Throughout the game, Aston Villa bombarded indiscriminately and failed to score a goal.

Just when the commentators were cheering, saying that Aston Villa's record of winning the season was about to be ended.

Yes, the commentator is not exclaiming, but cheering. As Fang Jue said before, the entire Premier League is now suffocating to end Aston Villa's winning record.

In stoppage time, Modric, who came off the bench, scored a beautiful direct free kick to win the game.

Desperate Villa, who can stop them? - After the game, the Guardian could not help but lament.