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MOTD halftime- Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Bayern Munich

By on May 25, 2013

Borussia Dortmund are level with Bayern Munich at halftime in the 2012/13 Champions League final at Wembley, in a thrilling match despite the low scoreline. Dortmund put heavy pressure on Bayern early on in the match, with Jurgen Klopp’s side seeing most of the ball in the opening five minutes. Bayern were struggling to get the ball into the Dortmund half, and Roberto Lewandowski almost put the Borussians in front with a swerving long range effort in the fourteenth minute, which Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer brilliantly tipped over the bar. Seconds later Lewandowski and co. against almost grabbed the opener, when Blaszczykowski met a low cross from the right at the near post, and his first time snap-shot was brilliantly kick away by Neuer.

Bayern began to find their stride, and forced a stunning save out of Dortmund goalkeeper Romen Weindenfeller, who just managed to tip Mario Mandzukic’s towering header from Franck Ribery’s cross from the right onto the top crossbar. In the thirtieth minute Arjen Robben was put in on goal with a wonderful through ball from Bastian Schweinsteiger, but Weindenfeller was quick of his line, and managed to block the winger’s shot with his chest. Lewandowski had his low shot blocked by Neuer, before Bayern had the best chance of the half when a long ball bounced off of Mats Hummels and fell to Robben, who had his volley from the edge of the box bounce back out of the face of an oncoming Weindenfeller. Bayern could not find the opener before the end of the half though, which ended 0-0 after a minute of added time. The second half is sure to see the opener and be full of goals, so look out for my full time review right here on Football Every Day!

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