Champions League: Thomas Müller shoots Bayern Munich to victory – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Thomas Müller has led FC Bayern München to victory in the first Champions League group game. The national team arrived at 3: 0 (0: 0) victory at Olympiacos twice. The third goal got Mario Götze.

“We have done difficult for us,” Müller said after the game. His coach Josep Guardiola added: “The first game is always difficult but we have the game completely controlled and no chance as allowed..”

Bayern did in the first 25 minutes against hard tiefstehende hosts. Piraeus defended compact and had by Brown Ideye the first opportunity. But the header of the Nigerian was unplaced, Manuel Neuer caught the ball loose from.

The first chance for the Munich then had Robert Lewandowski, his header from an Alonso-kick tipped a Olympiakos player on the goal line (26). Immediately afterwards shot Alonso from the edge of the box from a central position just wide (27.).

Bayern had the game now under control and earned more promising opportunities that Douglas Costa (34th), Lewandowski (35.) and Alonso (43) but could not use.

“The ball slipped me”

After the break, then the appearance of Müller: First he missed the goal of Piraeus with a drop kick from 16 meters scarce (50). But just two minutes later he was cheering Munich. From the right wing Müller makes a good run in the middle. But instead of a teammate to reach the cross over goalkeeper Roberto lowered into the net (52).

“The ball to me a bit slipped,” Mueller later admitted: “I have to be honest, it was happy, but also very important for us..”

After first hit the Bayern had more space. Piraeus had to play more offensive, but failed to really put the visitors under pressure. So the German champions managed the lead without pushing especially for a second goal.

83 minutes in Piraeus had finally has a good chance to equalize. Leandro Salino appeared freely before Neuer, hit from 15 meters but the side netting. Shortly before the end then substitute Götze made everything clear: assisted by Kingsley Coman he put the ball sent the defender over and overcame Roberto with a shot into the far corner (89th). In injury time Müller transformed then a penalty to the final score.

Ugly scenes there had been before the match in Munich fan block. After provocations of Bayern fans the policemen had acted disproportionately hard with batons. It apparently some fans have been violated, showed how video recordings from the interior

Olympiakos – Bayern München 0:. 3 (0: 0)
0: 1 Thomas Müller (52.)
0: 2 Götze (89)
0: 3 Thomas Müller (90. + 2, penalty)
Olympiacos Piraeus: Roberto – Elabdellaoui, da Costa, Siovas, Masuaku – Cambiasso (66 Fortounis) – Salino, Kasami – Dominguez (61. Hernani) – Pardo (82. Seba), Ideye.
München: New – Lahm, Boateng, Alaba, Bernat – Alonso (76th Kimmich) – Vidal (79th Götze), Thiago – Müller, Lewandowski (59th Coman), Costa.
Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)
Spectators: 31,688
Yellow cards: Kasami, Cambiasso , Elabdellaoui – Thomas Müller, Kimmich

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