Xabi Alonso nutmegs Gimenez to score free-kick vs. Atletico Madrid
Reuters
Atletico Madrid's stingy defence has finally broken down in this Champions League second-leg semi-final match against Bayern Munich, as Xabi Alonso scored an equalising goal ... and pulled off a nutmeg in one fell swoop.
Down 1-0 on aggregate after a first-leg loss at the Vicente Calderon, Bayern's players looked hungry for a goal of their own and found it at the half-hour mark when Alonso's training ground routine free-kick went through the legs of Jose Gimenez.
Robert Lewandowski's dummy run helped set up the shot and there was nothing goalkeeper Jan Oblak could do when Alonso's shot broke through the wall and slipped right past him to restore the aggregate draw.
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