Celebrating 17-year-old: Jamal Musiala after the 2-0 win against Lazio in the first leg of the 2021 round of 16
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Benvenuto in Italy! To distract from the recent humiliations in everyday life in the Bundesliga, the FC Bayern Munich team will be taking part in the most important, best and most expensive competition in the football world on Wednesday Lazio Rome let off steam. With a team they have played against twice and won both times, most recently in spring 2021, also in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Jamal Musiala is particularly looking forward to the trip to the Eternal City, where he immortalized himself with a very special goal three years ago. It was the first time that he took center stage on the big stage.
However, the very large stage was rather modestly lit on February 23, 2021, because only a handful of spectators were lost in the spring of 2021 under the restrictions of the Corona epidemic. Musiala was three days away from turning 18 and signing his first professional contract. A slim little boy with a shy smile, and as he listened to the Champions League anthem between Niklas Süle and Leroy Sané shortly before kick-off, it almost seemed as if a ball boy had smuggled himself into the Bayern team photo.
His deployment was due to Munich’s personnel shortage. Just 17 names were on the list for the game at Società Sportiva Lazio. Everyone else was either injured or infected with the coronavirus. For example, Thomas Müller, the man with the gift of always standing where the ball falls. The fact that Müller’s position as supplier to the sole striker Robert Lewandowski was filled by Musiala came as a bit of a surprise. Bayern’s coach Hansi Flick had previously pointed out the highly gifted player’s fluctuations in form and given him a regular place on the substitutes’ bench.
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In Rome, Musiala strutted across the Olympic pitch as grandly as Franz Beckenbauer once did after the 1990 World Cup triumph against Argentina, but much more goal-oriented. After Lewandowski’s early opening goal, it was up to Bayern’s youngest players to steer the game in a decisive direction. Leon Goretzka put the ball on his foot. Musiala accepted it with his usual naturalness, raised his head briefly, aimed for the left corner and made it 2-0. It was a fluid movement that lasted over three seconds and made Jamal Musiala the youngest player to ever score a goal in the Champions League for FC Bayern.
The rest of the game was irrelevant. Bayern won 4-1, and after winning 2-0 in the second leg, they were already dreaming of reaching the final in Porto and successfully defending the cup they had won in Lisbon the previous summer. As we all know, nothing came of it. The German champions failed in the quarter-finals against Paris Saint-Germain, and Musiala was on the bench for 90 minutes in the decisive 2:3 in the second leg.
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