German Super Cup: Bayern Munich win first title of the season

FC Bayern Munich beat archrivals Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the season opening German Super Cup at a sell-out Allianz Arena in Munich last night. It was Bayern’s first win against Dortmund in two years, which the Bavarians hope will have a positive effect on their Bundesliga campaign this season.

Bayern made a quick start into the game as one could feel that they wanted to overcome their Dortmund curse as they had lost the last five encounter against BVB and also the Bundesliga title over the last couple of seasons.

Dortmund, meanwhile, made a slow start into the game and were 0-2 behind after only 11 minutes. First in the sixth minute, newcomer Mario Mandzukic scored from a Franck Ribery cross to the utter surprise of Dortmund centre-backs Subotic and Hummels, while in the 11th minute a free Arjen Robben hit the post, but Thomas Müller was there to score acrobatically of the rebound.

The Bavarian giants were in control and especially in the first half hour showed what they could be capable off this season, but thereafter they slowed down as Dortmund surprisingly had no shot on target in the first 45 minutes.

After the break, Dortmund came back into the match with more purpose as they had their first chances within the first 10 minutes after the restart as Bayern Munich tried to control things and went on the attack only once in a while, but one good Robben shot, which Weidenfeller cleared, brought real danger to the Dortmund goal.

As the match progressed it got more and more of a friendly character, but Dortmund’s Robert Lewandowski reduced the deficit in the 75th minute and the Dortmund fans hoped for a late rally which didn’t really come, except a Schieber chance, as Bayern Munich held on to their 2-1 lead and claimed their first trophy of the season.

MATCH STATS

FC Bayern Munich 2-1 (2-0) Borussia Dortmund – Goals: 1-0 Mario Mandzukic (6′), 2-0 Thomas Müller (11′), 2-1 Robert Lewandowski (75′)

Bayern Munich
Manuel Neuer – Philipp Lahm, Jerome Boateng, Dante, Emre Can (70′ Holger Badstuber) – Luis Gustavo, Toni Kroos – Arjen Robben (85′ Xherdan Shaqiri), Thomas Müller, Franck Ribery (80′ Anatoly Tymoshchuk) – Mario Mandzukic

Borussia Dortmund
Roman Weidenfeller – Lukasz Piszczek, Neven Subotic, Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer – Ilkay Gündogan, Moritz Leitner (64′ Mario Götze) – Jakob Blaszczykowski (71′ Julian Schieber), Marco Reus, Kevin Grosskreutz (64′ Ivan Perisic) – Robert Lewandowski

Referee
Michael Weiner