Lazio 1-0 Bayern Munich: Player ratings as Champions League defeat adds to Tuchel pressure
Bayern Munich have work to do if they are to progress to this season’s Champions League quarter-finals after slumping to a 1-0 defeat to Lazio in their last 16 first leg on Wednesday. Ciro Immobile’s second half penalty proved to be the difference at Stadio Olimpico on an historic night for the Italian side in Europe. Bayern finished the game with ten players after Dayot Upamecano had been dismissed for his foul that conceded the spot-kick. Thomas Tuchel’s team dominated possession and mustered 17 shots in total over the course of the game, yet failed to get a single one on target, while Maurizio Sarri’s Lazio worked incredibly hard off the ball to limit the impact of Bayern’s array of glittering attacking talent. Although not a disastrous result in the overall context of this tie, it certainly wasn’t the way that Bayern or an under pressure Tuchel would have wanted to respond to last weekend’s comprehensive 3-0 defeat to Bundesliga title rivals Bayer Leverkusen. How the game unfol...