Fernando Torres delighted with Atletico Madrid first-leg lead over Bayern Munich

Fernando Torres hailed a fantastic night for Atletico Madrid and mission accomplished as they claimed a 1-0 first-leg victory over Bayern Munich in their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night.

Fernando Torres hailed a fantastic night for Atletico Madrid and mission accomplished as they claimed a 1-0 first-leg victory over Bayern Munich in their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night.

Although they take only a slim advantage to Munich for the second leg on Tuesday, the Spanish striker revealed Los Rojiblancos were delighted to take the early initiative.

RECOMMENDED SURE BET:

SOCCER PREDICTIONS FOR THURSDAY 28-04-2016

Bolivia » Liga de Futbol Prof 2015/2016:

Petrolero de Yacuiba - U. Sucre       1win

Bulgaria » A PFG 2015/2016:

Levski - Cherno More                        (0:2)2 Alternative Handicap.

Cyprus » First Division 2015/2016:

APOEL - AEK Larnaca             1x

Estonia » Esi Liiga 2016:

Flora II - Tallinna Kalev          (0:2)2 Alternative Handicap.

Europa League 2015/2016:

Shakhtar Donetsk – Sevilla               10minutes x                          

Villarreal – Liverpool                         10minutes x

Russia Premier League 2015/2016:

Ural - CSKA Moscow              (2:0)1 Alternative Handicap.                                  

Zenit Petersburg – Kuban                 1win

Torres, who struck the post in the second half after an exquisite piece of skill to set up his shooting opportunity, said: “It was a fantastic night and I’m happy for all Atletico supporters. We’ve got what we wanted which was to get the scoreline in our favour.

“We suffered and kept suffering, kept fighting, that’s what we do. Bayern have a level few teams have but we kept on doing our thing.”

Atleti defended for much of the game but reduced Bayern, in the main, to chances from distance with Polish striker Robert Lewandowski suffering a frustrating evening and Pep Guardiola unable to muster much penetration from his team.

Incredible solo goal by Saul Niguez to give Atletico Madrid a 1-0 semi final win over Bayern!#Football #UCLhttps://t.co/8G6NQUoJsL

— Luxbet (@luxbet) April 28, 2016

Torres’ strike partner Antoine Griezmann said: “We’re very happy with a win. In the second half, we saw that Bayern are a great team.

“It was better for us when we came back to 4-4-2. It may be not so nice to see from the stand or in TV but our game is our game: defend strongly and convert our chances.”

Bayern lost the first legs of their semi-finals in the previous two seasons to Real Madrid and Barcelona on their way out of the competition and captain Philipp Lahm lamented their inability to score an away goal.

“We didn’t think we’d have so many chances to score in the second half as we did, but we didn’t use them,” Lahm told ZDF. “You have to use them in games like this, but we still have 90 minutes to come.”

CREDIT TO:http://sport360.com/article/football/european/176549/fernando-torres-delighted-with-atletico-madrid-first-leg-lead-over-bayern-munich/