Beer glasses sat on the table as people preferred to either bite their nails or simply sit on their hands, and you could sense the atmosphere coming to the boil as the game approach the end of the ninety minutes with the almost constant refrain of Auf geht’s Bayern schießt ein Tor!
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The match as expected was full of tension, with both sides playing a highly cautious and defensive game – and this tension soon spilled out into the Beerhouse, with each failed effort met with loud groans and each defensive scare greeted with relieved sighs.
More flags were ordered for the occasion, and as the build-up to the game began a small number of otherwise unwanted BxB interlopers sitting in their eye-bleeding Trikots at the back of the room would add extra spice to the occasion – and provide the perfect static target for some of our favourite terrace tunes. Over sixty Bayern fans were in attendance including a number of friends and guests, with the gathering also doubling up as a farewell for two of our members. Red Dragons set the scene for an unforgettable eveningįor what was the final act of the Red Dragons’ first season, the board organised the ultimate cup final party at our Old Street Bavarian Beerhouse lair. While we would obviously have no direct impact on the team, the mission was to cheer as loudly as we could, in the hope of transferring some of that magic across the North Sea and onto the Olympiastadion in Berlin. The DFB-Pokalfinale provided us with yet another meeting with the yellow peril, and despite the floating doubts the Red Dragons’ board were determined that the season would not end like this. When FC Lüdenscheid-Nord came to visit and ran off with a 3-0 win against an insipid and at times rudderless Bayern team, a thin layer of pessimism threatened to ruin what had been an encouraging first season for the Catalan coach. With the record unbeaten run in the Bundesliga also being punctured by unheralded FC Augsburg, Bayern’s form began to waver. These hopes would come tumbling down in April, as Real Madrid came to the Allianz Arena and did much they same as what we had done to Barcelona at the Camp Nou just twelve months earlier. With a twenty-fourth Meisterschale safely in the locker and the team still involved in both the Champions’ League and DFB-Pokal, some of us had started to dream of another glorious treble. Online: ESPN3 (U.S.), Sportsnet World Online (Canada), BT Sport 2 (U.K.FC Bayern set the scene for a nail-biting cup finalĪfter winning the Bundesliga in record time before the end of March, FC Bayern were right at the top of their game. Spanish), Sportsnet World (Canada), BT Sport 2 (U.K.), Sky Sport 1/HD, ARD Das Erste (Germany) In doubt: Franck Ribéry (back).īorussia Dortmund: Roman Wedenfeller Łukasz Piszczek, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Mats Hummels, Erik Durm Sebastian Kehl, Nuri Şahin Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Reus, Jonas Hofmann Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.īayern Munich: Manuel Neuer Philipp Lahm, Jerome Boateng, Dante, David Alaba Toni Kroos, Javi Martínez Arjen Robben, Mario Götze, Thomas Müller Claudio Pizarro. Out: Thiago Alcântara (knee), Mario Mandžukić (technical decision), Bastian Schweinsteiger (thigh). A return to full fitness seems close for winger Franck Ribéry, though his back problem could still be problematic enough to force him to start this game from the bench.īorussia Dortmund injuries and suspensions Pep Guardiola will be without a couple of important midfield cogs in the injured Thiago Alcântara and Bastian Schweinsteiger, and has left top scorer Mario Mandžukić out of the squad altogether amid rumours of an imminent exit. They will, however, certainly be without backup goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak, with the Australian international strugling with a knee problem. He dropped to the bench when these sides last met and it did Dortmund no harm whatsoever, as they romped to a 3-0 victory. However, their boss Jürgen Klopp has quite the selection dilemma over whether to start Bundesliga top scorer Robert Lewandowski in the final, given that he'll be departing to Bayern in the summer. Bayern Munich blog Bavarian Football Works
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