Two days ago, Bayern Munich was expected to exit early from the UEFA Champions League in their draw against FC Porto. On Thursday, UEFA.com released its Team of the Week and the Bavarian team dominates the list with four players. Despite already being eliminated, Jan Oblak from Atletico Madrid and Geoffrey
Oblak was a wall for most of the 180 minutes that Atletico played Real Madrid in the Quarter-Finals. He left the first leg with a clean sheet and was aiming at a second one in the decisive game until Javier Hernández was finally able to send a shot past him in the last minutes of the game.
Oblak did not let CR7 shine in the Madrid Derby
Ronaldo & Oblak. pic.twitter.com/z3obYjvKE2
— RMadridHome (@RMadridHome) abril 23, 2015
Jerome Boateng and Juan Bernat are the Bayern players in the defensive line of this special team. Boateng's goal against Porto tied the aggregate score momentarily and it ended 7-4 in favor of the German side. In the same game, Bernat assisted Thiago Alcantara's goal and was effective in 90% of his passes.
Joining them on defense were Jordi Alba from Barcelona and Leonardo Bonucci from Juventus. Alba was responsible for making sure that Edinson Cavani did not cause trouble to Barcelona' and he was perfect at it. Bonucci led his team in its efforts to keep a clean sheet just like they have in five of their last six games.
At midfield, Thiago Alcantara is back again in this "ideal" team. The Bayern player was consistent in his efforts during both legs of the series and capped it off with an assist to Thomas Muller in the decisive game. Kondogbia was the best for Monaco. He was even able to win
Thiago Alcantara was Bayern's best man in both games vs Porto
GOAL! Bayern 1-0 Porto (Thiago Alcántara 14) Aggregate 2-3. #UCL pic.twitter.com/apMeRsLYlI
— Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) abril 21, 2015
James Rodriguez did not score in any
Up front for Bayern was one of their leaders Thomas Muller. The German striker had one goal and two assists in Bayern's epic comeback against Porto at
Javier Hernández became a trending topic on Twitter in great part by his decisive goal in the Madrid Derby. It was just his second start in UCL games this season and his first goal of the competition in 895 days. When it seemed that the game was headed into overtime, Chicharito ended Real's winless streak against Los Colchoneros with an assist by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Lucia Villalon tweeted "Hard work, persistence and value... Always proud! (But I already knew that"
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