German Supercup - Borussia Dortmund 4-2 Bayern Munich: 5 talking points

Borussia Dortmund defeated Bayern Munich 4-2

Pep Guardiola’s first match in charge of Bayern Munich turned out to be a loss as Borussia Dortmund played some classic counter-attacking football to comprehensively defeat the Bavarians 4-2 at Signal Iduna Park.

Marco Reus opened the scoring after a goalkeeping blunder by Tom Starke but Robben equlaized in the 56th minuted with a free header from Philip Lahm cross. But within two minutes, Dortmund scored twice with a Van Buyten own goal and a piece of genius from Ilkay Gundogan.

But few minutes later Robben pulled one back after some poor positioning from Subotic and brought the deficit down to one. However, in the 86th minute, Reus scored his second goal in a well executed counter-attack as new recruit Aubameyang notched up his first assist in a goal that was wrapped in offside controversy.

Let’s look at the 5 talking points of this match:

Roman Weidenfeller

Roman Weidenfeller

This man is getting better by the day, and was one of the main reasons Dortmund got into the Champions League final last year. At 33 years of age, he seems to have reached his peak, and he put up a masterclass performance against Bayern.

While their defence was shaky, he was an assured presence at the back and made world-class saves last night. He made a double save against Shaqiri’s low shot and the rebound by Thomas Muller. His distribution was excellent as many of his balls found the wide men and his command inside the box while during corners, he is like Peter Schmeichel on work.