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It wasn’t precisely revenge for Chelsea coming from behind to beat Bayern Munich on penalties within the (infinitely more essential) 2012 Champions League final, but Bayern doing the same to Chelsea in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup was extra of a extremely entertaining direct to video sequel. And in the long run, a day after Franck Ribery was named the Best Participant in Europe, last season’s treble winners added the their trophy haul with the club’s first UEFA Tremendous Cup. Whereas educating Chelsea’s Romelu Lukaku a worthwhile lesson about not taking awful penalties.
Chelsea took an early lead with a implausible goal from Fernando Torres in the eight minute, but Ribery lastly obtained one past Petr Cech, who seemed a lock for Man of the Match for a lot of the evening, simply after halftime. The rating held at 1-1 into extra time, even though Chelsea went all the way down to 10 men when Ramires was despatched off in the 85th minute. Despite the disadvantage, Eden Hazard caught Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer asleep with his eyes open and put a shot proper previous his hand to reclaim the lead in the 93rd minute. With victory seeming virtually certain for the undermanned Europa League winners, Bayern midfielder Javi Martinez scored with the final shot of additional time to equalize and pressure the first penalty shootout in a UEFA Super Cup match.
Both sides have been perfect via 9 makes an attempt in the shootout, but with Bayern up 5-four, supremely proficient 20-year-old striker Romelu Lukaku stepped up and did this…
Neuer smothered the weak attempt at delayed foolery and that was it. Being as young as he’s and without the experience to see how far from life and loss of life this match was in the grand scheme of issues, Lukaku took his failure rather onerous. Seeing this, several Bayern players, including Franck Ribery, Dante, Toni Kroos and Daniel Van Buyton, joined his teammates in attempting to comfort him.
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Meanwhile, it was another trophy for Bayern and another loss to Pep Guardiola for Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who, as you might have guessed, did not go quietly into the night. From the BBC:
“One of the best team lost. The opponents scored two, we scored two. However they scored one more penalty. But the most effective workforce clearly lost the match.
“One of the best team played with 10 males for a long, long period within the recreation. We performed against the champions of Europe and my gamers were the best crew – we solely have reasons to be proud to believe sooner or later. But I want just to say the very best crew misplaced and stay with it.”
And to suppose this season’s European marketing campaign has only just begun.
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Victorious Bayern Munich players console Romelu Lukaku after decisive penalty in UEFA Super Cup
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