Champions League quarterfinals: Villareal knocks out Bayern Munich, Real Madrid beats holders Chelsea

Villarreal stunned six-time European champions Bayern Munich to reach the Champions League semifinals for the first time in 16 years thanks to Samuel Chukwueze's 88th-minute goal that salvaged a 1-1 draw and a 2-1 aggregate victory.

Quarterfinals second legs:

(Real Madrid advance 5-4 on aggregate)

(Villarreal advance 2-1 on aggregate)

Semifinals:

Villarreal's 1-0 lead from the first leg was wiped out by Robert Lewandowski seven minutes into the second half, but Chukwueze completed a counterattack within four minutes of coming off the bench to extend the Spanish team's surprising run in the competition.

«They made the mistake today of not killing us off and we took advantage of that,» Villarreal striker Gerard Moreno said.

«What this team has done is great.»

The entire population of the south-eastern Spanish city of Villarreal — 50,000 — could fit into Bayern's 75,000-capacity stadium.

And while Bayern lifted the European Cup in 2020, the furthest Villarreal has reached in the competition before now was the semifinals in 2006.

«If you take just this game into account, without the first game, we should have gone through convincingly,» Bayern forward Thomas Müller said. «It's difficult to accept this; I don't know what to say.»

There could be another six-time champion to eliminate to reach a first Champions League final.

Liverpool or Benfica awaits in the semis, with the English club holding a 3-1 lead over the Portuguese side heading into Wednesday's second leg at Anfield.

With Real Madrid looking beaten and on the verge of elimination after a fierce comeback by defending champion Chelsea, Karim Benzema came up big once again.

Having scored a hat trick in the first leg to give Madrid a 3-1 lead, Benzema spoiled the English team’s