FC Bayern displays in the “game of destiny” for coach Niko Kovac in a good performance against Benfica. Powered by Arjen Robben, the Munich shoot out a high victory and secure the Coach for the Job.
FC BAYERN – BENFICA 5:1 (3:0)
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FC Bayern München is for the eleventh Time in a row in the first knockout round of the Champions League. The record German Champions defeated the Portuguese giants Benfica Lisbon 5:1 (3:0), and not displace, before the final appearance for Ajax Amsterdam one of the top two places in group E to.
The best man of the Evening was seal veteran Arjen. The Dutchman scored the first two hits (13., 30.), Star striker Robert Lewandowski for the next two (36., 51.). The final point Franck Ribery (76.). In the meantime, Gedson had scored the 1:3 Benfica (46.). For Bayern coach Niko Kovac, the victory means that he is allowed to sit on the bench. The Croat was advised after the recent negative run massively in the criticism.
The final group game of the FCB will be held on 12. December in Amsterdam. Then a draw is enough to win the group.
Game missed? Then again all the goals and all the other important scenes to Read in the live Ticker.
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The final WHISTLE
91. Minute: Courageous shot from Lewandowski from 25 metres, but for a third goal of the poles was a few metres too high and too far to the right.
87. Minute: a YELLOW CARD against ALFA SEMEDO, a bit too rustic at the pass by dribbling the Jeong shakes.
86. Min: Seferovic wipes the Ball from the baseline and get him flat in front of the Bayern goal. New dives and holds securely.
81. Minute: And a game exchange at the top of the Kovac brings a debutant. The 19-year-old South Korean WOO-YEONG JEONG replaced the industrious THOMAS MULLER.
78. Minute: It was the last action of Ribery: game exchange in Bavaria: Kovac switches SANDRO WAGNER and the heart of the replaced FRANCK RIBERY. Bavaria-harmony in its purest form!
76. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for FC Bayern , FRANCK RIBERY. The Frenchman sends Alaba the direction of the base line. The Austrians lays the Ball back, Miller missed and Ribery closes with force into the lower-right corner of the net.
76. Minute: game exchange: Benfica brings ALFA SEMEDO for LJUBOMIR FEJSA into the game.
72. Minute. Game exchange in the case of Bavaria: The man of the game goes. ARJEN ROBBEN makes grinning RENATO SANCHES square. The Bayern Fans singing, meanwhile, in a loop: “everything under control on the sinking ship. No panic on the Titanic…”
70. Minute: Vlachodimos Boxing is a far shot from Goretzka. Robben wants to pursue, but is in an Offside position.
68. Min: Muller is left on the base line, in the mid-to Ribery. The will again drop into the middle, but a Portuguese defensive leg is in between.
62. Minute: Benfica are immersed in the Bayern penalty area on: Silva tries a volley, but Alaba gets the Ball. No Danger.
59. Minute: game exchange in Benfica: JONAS must come down, with the former Frankfurt’s HARIS SEFEROVIC comes a Ex-player Niko Kovac in the game.
54. Minute: There had Lewandowski for a high Ball in the 16er for the volley shot out of Holt, but the slides clears the head. The next dream goal, the Bayern will have to wait (yet).
51. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for FC Bayern by ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI. We know already! Corner Kimmich, head to the ball Lewandowski goal for Bayern. Thus, the poles of the accident from the 46. Minute quickly repaired.
50. Minute: Almost 4:1 for Bayern, it is made up of eight meters trying, but Vlachodimos fits and parried the Ball.
46. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for Benfica by GEDSON. Boom, there it happened! Boateng sliding tackle on the Ball, Jonas plays with Gedson, double-pass, and the new man overcomes New in the one-on-One. What a debut!
46. Minute: it goes on. In the GAME at Benfica: PIZZI goes out, GEDSON .
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As Bayern coach Kovac will be some of the stones from the heart fell. He has seen a very convincing first half for his team. Robben, on the left with his first goal of the node burst, and then doubled the lead, the FC Bayern clear at the Front and can look forward to a relaxing second half. It looks as if Benfica would come back again. Important, it would not, however, to manage just now, but consistently to put.
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Mid-term break
44. Minute: However, a conclusion of Almeida, after a short head ball defense Boateng were directly from the 17 meters of the net. His attempt misses but a Meter to the right.
41. Minute: Now is it a “gmahde Wiesn”, as the Bayer says. FC Bayern makes the Ball run, Benfica does not much to the front.
36. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for FC Bayern by ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI. The corner comes in, the Pole rises framed by two Benfica-stretching high and heaves the Ball with his head into the net. 50. Champions League goal for Lewandowski.
36. Minute: manages the seal Trick. This time not a shot on goal, but a cross to Müller, the extended with the head following. Vlachodimos saves for a corner.
32. Minute: YELLOW CARD for FRANCK RIBERY after he high-leg Almeida.
30. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for FC Bayern ARJEN ROBBEN. You know exactly how he does it – and yet it is difficult to defend. Robben starts from the right and parallel to the base line in the 16er, Grimaldo and concludes then with the left foot. But this time, not to long, but to the short corner.
27. Minute: Pizzi is on the right wing and puts the Ball flat to the inside. Alaba slides in and clears for a corner. The brings nothing.
25. Minute: YELLOW CARD for ARJEN ROBBEN after a Foul on Gabriel. Because the low countries was in the battle a little too late.
23. Minute: Now fires Lewandowski a shot. He rotates the Ball with the right in the direction of the upper right corner of the net, but again, the Benfica Keeper, and speaks with effort for a corner.
21. Min: Robben runs a high, long Ball, but Vlachodimos has been paying attention and clarifies a few meters outside the penalty area with the head.
19. Minute: Again uses a Bayern player in the Benfica defender, as slalom poles: Ribery moves from the left into the box, closes it, but right into the arms of Vlachodimos.
17. Minute: should the Münchenern but now security. So far Benfica makes hardly any effort to bring the new kept goal in danger.
13. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for FC Bayern ARJEN ROBBEN. What a nice hit: The low countries is almost in front of the baseline on the right wing against four-man and raise the Ball precisely into the top left corner. Gorgeous!
9. Minute: Müller directs a cross-pass from Rafinha directly with the hoe in the middle, but he finds no buyers.
5. Minute: Kimmich brings a free-kick from the left into the penalty area, but Conti clears with the head to the throw-in.
3. Min: Robben on the right is quite free, penetrates into the box and… Yes what? Shoots? Crosses? Anything in between! In any case, the Ball passes out of reach for all players at an angle on goal.
1. Min: a misplaced pass in the build-up play from Boateng. The counter-Benfica is nothing, because Jonas slips and on the butt lands.
Kick-off
20:59 Uhr: Ajax Amsterdam has the other game of group E at AEK Athens with a 2:0 win and 11 points, now one point ahead of Bayern. The output location for the Munich-based: Anything other than a defeat, which is higher than 0:1, brings the FCB already in the next round.
At 20:57: Benfica, currently Fourth in the Portuguese League, needs a victory in the race for the eighth-final Ticket in the Champions League to stay. However, Benfica should win at least 2:0 to lose the direct comparison. Coach Rui Vitoria sends these eleven players of the offense on the lawn:
At 20:54: Mats Hummels is not because he is this morning with a gastrointestinal illness log off.
At 20:53: Niko Kovac in the press conference before the match, the self-confidence and looseness demonstrated, however, assume that he is still a lot of games on the Bayern bench experience. Today, he relies first of all on these eleven players:
At 20:50: On paper Bayern against today’s opponents Benfica Lisbon a favorite. The first leg in Portugal, there was a 2-0 success in Munich. But that was in September, and since Bayern was the world was still in order.
20:47 PM: Decide today the fate of Bayern Munich’s coach Niko Kovac? The blood pressure values at the FCB President Uli Hoeness since the ignominious 3:3 against Fortuna Düsseldorf, near the top, a dismissal of Kovacs in the case of a Minus-power is not unlikely. A victim of Hoeness’anger was there already: His old buddy Paul Breitner, who had dared to criticize Hoeness, may no longer stands on the Bayern-honor.
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