Bayern Munich mentor Julian Nagelsmann said his group "merited" to lose following their 1-0 misfortune away to Villarreal in the principal leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Wednesday.
Arnaut Danjuma scored an early goal and Bayern were lucky they will get back to Germany not following by additional after Villarreal striker Gerard Moreno two times went close.
"It's a merited loss, we were bad," Nagelsmann told DAZN.
"In the principal half we needed more energy, we didn't make opportunities for us and we gave up control."
Moreno hit the post and afterward twisted a long-range exertion tortuously wide after Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer miscued a leeway while well out of his goal.
"We were fortunate (not to yield) from that blunder," added Nagelsmann.
The loss finished Bayern's record run of 22 matches unbeaten away from home in the Champions League.
It was a grouping tracing all the way back to September 2017 and a 3-0 misfortune to Paris Saint-Germain, at the time trained by current Villarreal supervisor Unai Emery.
"We didn't figure out how to place in the exhibition we needed," expressed Bayern forward Thomas Mueller.
"We acknowledge the 1-0 misfortune. Assuming things had gone more regrettable, the score might have been more noteworthy.
"We saw that Villarreal are not an adversary you can walk everywhere, regardless of what certain media were talking about. We should set ourselves up for the subsequent leg and seek our retribution."
Six-time European bosses Bayern have Villarreal in Munich on 12 April. The champs of the tie will play Liverpool or Benfica in the last four.
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