Football

Champion League: Bayern Munich blast into quarters as Lewandowski hat-trick sinks Salzburg

By Aman Shukla

Robert Lewandowski scored a record-breaking 11-minute hat-trick to send Bayern Munich into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 7-1 win at home to Red Bull Salzburg on Tuesday. Lewandowski had three goals to his name by the 23rd minute, the soonest anyone has at any point completed a hat-trick in a Champions League match, as Bayern shook off their early nerves to beat Salzburg. “This was definitely a statement from us, and it gives us hope that there is more like this to come,” Bayern captain Manuel Neuer told Amazon Prime after his side reached the last eight for a record 20th time.

Austrian champions Salzburg had held Bayern to a 1-1 draw in the first leg, but their hopes of an upset in Munich were left destroyed when Lewandowski scored a tap-in and two penalties to send Bayern on their way to a famous win.

“We knew we had to attack the box early today and get Lewy into the game, because he is so hard to defend against,” said Thomas Mueller.

“We all knew how important this game was today. If we had been knocked out, it would have been a very sad next three months for us,” he added.

 

Aman Shukla

Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication. A media enthusiast who has a stronghold on communication, content writing, and copy writing. Aman is currently working as a subeditor at dailyindianews.com and can be reached at [email protected]