Aston Villa v Bayern Munich LIVE: Latest score and goal updates as both sides look to break deadlock
Aston Villa host the German giants in the second round of the Champions League league phase on Wednesday evening
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Aston Villa host Bayern Munich at Villa Park on Wednesday evening in the second round of fixtures in the 2024/25 Champions League.
The match is another showdown thrown together by the competition’s new league phase format, and Villa come into it having retained much of their from from last season.
Unai Emery’s side are fifth in the Premier League on 13 points, just two behind leaders Liverpool, though they missed the chance to go top of the league last weekend as they drew 2-2 to Ipswich.
As 3-0 win away at BSC Young Boys was a solid start to the European campaign for Villa, but it was bettered by some distance by Bayern’s win in their opener, as the Bavarians beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2.
And the German champions will provide perhaps the toughest test of the season so far to Unai Emery’s budding Villa side.
Follow all the latest build-up, team news and score updates below, as well as the reaction to the evening’s other Champions League matches:
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
76 mins
Former Fulham man Joao Palhinha comes on for Pavlovic.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
74 mins
The tempo has really died down in the last few minutes, with Bayern keeping the ball well but not creating anything, and Villa happy to sit and try to counter.
Gnabry tries to feed in a cross but it’s put behind by Konsa.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
71 mins
Bayern still lacking that bit of quality in the final third, as Kimmich threads though a ball to nobody.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
69 mins
Sane thinks he’s away down the right but he was tracked all the way.
Jhon Duran comes on for Ollie Watkins, who was brilliant in several aspects today.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
67 mins
Gnabry is the latest player in the book after he dragged Watkins down.
Villa try one of the most ridiculous free-kick routines you’ve ever seen – they dummied it FOUR times – and it ends up in the hands of Neuer.
Olise is replaced by Leroy Sane for the visitors.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
64 mins
Brilliant from both sides. Musiala skips through about three challenges and exchanges passes with Kane before bursting into the box. He unleashes a low shot but Torres has tracked him all the way to block.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
63 mins
Oh, it needed to be played earlier! A matter of milliseconds.
The ball breaks to the Villa midfield in the Bayern half and the space opens up for Barkley to thread it to Maatsen, but he mistimes his pass and it’s cut out eventually.
Moments later, Maatsen blazes a shot well over.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
61 mins
Gnabry cuts in from the left and hits a shot straight at Martinez. Villa try to counter and it’s superb work from Rogers, who is eventually fouled by Olise.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bayern Munich
Richard Jolly at Villa Park:
Emi Martinez has been warned by the referee for what he saw as timewasting (Martinez predictably disagreed). Yet it does raise the question if they would settle for this scoreline. Probably, especially with three points in the bag after their trip to Bern. There may be more onus on Bayern to find a winner, as a club who surely expect a top-eight finish.
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