Bayern deserved to lose: Nagelsmann

Villarreal’s goal-scorer Arnaut Danjuma. Pic/Getty Images

Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said his team "deserved" to lose following their 0-1 loss away to Villarreal in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final Wednesday. Arnaut Danjuma scored an early goal and Bayern were fortunate they will return to Germany not trailing by more after Villarreal striker Gerard Moreno twice went close. "It's a deserved defeat, we were not good," Nagelsmann told DAZN.

Julian Nagelsmann. Pic/Getty Images

"In the first half, we didn't have enough energy, we didn't create chances for ourselves and we surrendered control." Moreno hit the post and then curled a long-range effort agonisingly wide after Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer miscued a clearance while well out of his goal. "We were lucky [not to concede] from that error," added Nagelsmann.

The defeat ended Bayern's record run of 22 matches unbeaten away from home in the Champions League. It was a sequence dating back to September 2017 and a 3-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain, at the time coached by current Villarreal boss Unai Emery.

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