The last
weekend was special for the European football in terms that the two Champions
League finalists were going to meet in a Bundesliga match. Both Borussia
Dortmund and Bayern had no problems to solve, but who said the match didn’t
decide anything?
Although
most of the Champions League heroes were not on the pitch from the first
minutes at the Signal Iduna Park, the atmosphere was more than nervous, as if
the winner would get any advantage before the Champions League final.
The home
side, as expected, was more enthusiastic, while the task for the visitors was
keeping their face. The first half got famous for Kevin Grosskreutz’s and Mario
Gomez’s goals. But it was the second half that revealed the main intentions of
the teams towards each other. The accelerator was Robert Lewandowski’s penalty,
which was saved by Manuel Neuer. The incident brought lots of emotions in, and
it was Bayern’s Rafinha, who became the first victim of those. The defender got
2 yellow cards in a spell of 2 minutes and got expulsed only 4 minutes after
the penalty episode. Afterwards he tried to explain Blaszczykowski what a moron
the Pole was, had to hear some comments from Juergen Klopp, who got involved in
lessons about manners on the bench instructed by Matthias Sammer, now
representing Bayern’s camp. The episode was followed by clashes between Boateng
and Lewandowski, Mueller and Santana, while Schieber was close to shoot Neuer’s
head instead of the ball. As for the match itself, Jupp Heynckes removed Mario
Gomez in favor of Emre Can, anticipating Marco Reus’s entrance minutes later.
The young German created two great chances for Julian Schieber, but the forward
showed precisely why Lewandowski was always the favorite to appear in Juergen
Klopp’s starting line-up.
The
rehearsal ended 1-1. The teams will meet at Wembley very soon.
As for the
upcoming weekend, Bayern will host Augsburg, a team still having some chances
to remain in the Bundesliga for the next season, and Borussia will travel to
Wolfsburg, where they will try to earn the last point necessary to secure the
silver medals for this season.
| Club | Last Matches | Next match | Position in the domestic league |
| Bayern (Germany) | 04.05 Borussia D. (A) 1-1 | 11.05 Augsburg (H) | 1 |
| Borussia D. (Germany) | 04.05 Bayern (H) 1-1 | 11.05 Wolfsburg (A) | 2 |
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