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MOTD- Bayern Munich 2-2 Chelsea (5-4 pens)

By on August 30, 2013

20130830-220250.jpgBayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola trumped former rival Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in the first match meeting between the two managers for over a year as Romelu Lukaku missed the tenth penalty in a shootout to send the Uefa Super Cup to Munich. Guardiola’s men conjured a hundred-and-twentieth minute equalizer to rest the match at 2-2 with the last kick of extra-time, while they did what they couldn’t do in the 2012 Champions League final by beating Chelsea on spot-kicks.

Although eventually getting the better of The Blues the match did not begin well for Bayern, who found themselves 1-0 down after only eight minutes. Eden Hazard burst through down the middle in a classic Mourino counter-attack, before playing it to Andre Schurrle out wide on the right. Schurrle cut it back to Fernando Torres, and the Spaniard spanked a first-time effort into the top left corner from eight yards.

Despite going a goal down Bayern reverted to their Tiki-Taka style football and came close to finding the lead when Frank Ribery had his low shot from the edge of the box pushed wide by Petr Cech. Guardiola’s side did not stop pressuring Mourinho’s men as the match rolled on to the second half, and they were rewarded for their hard work as Ribery spanked a ferocious dipping shot into the top corner in the forty-sixth minute.

Ribery almost doubled his tally only second later when he sent a long-range volley wide, with Chelsea continuing to suck up the pressure and counter-attacking. But things went disastrously wrong for Mourinho in the eighty-sixth minute as Ramires brought down Mario Gotze and was given a second yellow card.

The English club managed to push things into extra-time, and somehow pulled in front in the third minute of the added half-hour. A long-ball from the center circle found the run of Hazard, who took is towards Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer before coolly smashing it into the corner.

Bayern quickly reacted by sending men forward, forcing Cech into a fantastic save to push wide Mario Mandzukic’s towering header from Javi Martinez’s cross. Gary Cahill saved Chelsea from conceding in the hundred-and-sixth minute via a goal-line block, just before Cech came out to stop Gotze’s run down the wing by saving the German’s shot with his torso.

Cech saved Ribery’s twenty-yard free-kick in the hundred-and-nineteenth minute, as Chelsea seemed to have won it, only for Frank Lampard’s last second clearance to hit Dante and fall to Martinez, who slotted a shot home from eight-yards with the last kick of extra-time, leaving the match to go on to penalties.

David Alaba converted Bayern first spot-kick before David Luiz did likewise with Chelsea’s. Toni Kroos sent Cech the wrong way to make it 2-1, while Oscar made it 2-2 with Chelsea’s second penalty. Ribery then converted his after Philip Lahm and Lampard both made theirs, before Ashley Cole made Chelsea’s fourth via the post. Xherden Shaqiri made his despite Cech getting a hand to it, while Romelu Lukaku stepped up to take Chelsea’s key fifth penalty, but sent it straight at Neuer handing the Uefa Super Cup to Bayern.
Man of the Match: Frank Ribery

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