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Guendouzi: ‘Champions League award for whole Lazio team’

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1 year ago

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Guendouzi: ‘Champions League award for whole Lazio team’

Matteo Guendouzi was named Man of the Match after Lazio beat Bayern Munich within the Champions League. ‘This award is to be shared with the entire crew.’

The midfielder has made a huge impact in his debut season with the Biancocelesti and impressed once more on the Stadio Olimpico on this night’s 1-0 victory.

It was determined by a Ciro Motionless penalty after Dayot Upamecano noticed pink for the foul on Gustav Isaksen.

“It was a efficiency with high quality and power. We achieved our first goal, however now we should earn qualification for the following section,” Guendouzi informed Amazon Prime Video Italia.

The second leg can be in Munich on March 5 and there’s no extra away objectives rule in UEFA tournaments, so any defeat there by a single-goal margin will immediate additional time.

Coach Maurizio Sarri mentioned that the Lazio crew ‘moved as an entity with one thoughts’ and that was backed by Guendouzi.

“This award is to be shared with the entire crew, we performed rather well. It’ll be tough in Munich, we should play the best way we all know how.

“Earlier than that, we’ve bought Bologna in Serie A, then we are able to take into consideration Bayern.”

This was not the deliberate midfield to begin the sport in opposition to Bayern Munich, as Matias Vecino was named within the beginning XI and pulled out with an damage through the warm-up.

He was changed on the final minute by Danilo Cataldi.