Germany internationals Thomas Müller and Joshua Kimmich helped get Bayern München back to winning ways in the Champions League, as they defeated PSV Eindhoven 4-1. The result meant Carlo Ancelotti’s side extended their run of victorious Champions League home games to 14 in front of a sellout crowd of 70,000 in the Allianz Arena.
In all, it was a much-improved performance from Bayern, save for a brief period either side of half time when Luciano Narsingh pulled it back to 2-1 and the visitors came close to an equaliser on a number of occasions. They had another effort from Gastón Pereiro controversially ruled out for offside, while it took a superb second-half stop from world champion Manuel Neuer in the Bayern goal to maintain his side’s lead. Headers from Robert Lewandowski and Arjen Robben then restored their cushion, giving the final scoreline a gloss the hosts deserved on the balance of play.
Gladbach celebrate thanks to Stindl and Hahn
Despite the long list of absentees, Borussia Mönchengladbach picked up their first victory in this season’s Champions League. The Fohlenelf won 2-0 away to Celtic to keep their hopes of a long European campaign alive. Second-half goals from Lars Stindl and André Hahn made the difference in front of 57,814 fans at Celtic Park. It was the club’s first away win in the competition in exactly 39 years, having last triumphed on the road on 19th October 1977 against Red Star Belgrade.
Gladbach dominated the match from the very early stages, and came close to taking the lead sooner through Stindl and Ibrahima Traoré in particular. Their high pressing game was causing a lot of problems for the Scottish champions, and further chances fell the way of Jonas Hofmann and Hahn, but it remained scoreless at the break.
But the Foals finally got their reward in the second period when Celtic defender Kolo Touré attempted to let the ball go out of play, but Hahn’s persistence kept it alive and helped it on to Stindl, who fired in through the legs of Craig Gordon. It was another error from Touré that allowed Hahn to finally settle affairs in favour of the away side.
Germany internationals Thomas Müller and Joshua Kimmich helped get Bayern München back to winning ways in the Champions League, as they defeated PSV Eindhoven 4-1. The result meant Carlo Ancelotti’s side extended their run of victorious Champions League home games to 14 in front of a sellout crowd of 70,000 in the Allianz Arena.
In all, it was a much-improved performance from Bayern, save for a brief period either side of half time when Luciano Narsingh pulled it back to 2-1 and the visitors came close to an equaliser on a number of occasions. They had another effort from Gastón Pereiro controversially ruled out for offside, while it took a superb second-half stop from world champion Manuel Neuer in the Bayern goal to maintain his side’s lead. Headers from Robert Lewandowski and Arjen Robben then restored their cushion, giving the final scoreline a gloss the hosts deserved on the balance of play.
Gladbach celebrate thanks to Stindl and Hahn
Despite the long list of absentees, Borussia Mönchengladbach picked up their first victory in this season’s Champions League. The Fohlenelf won 2-0 away to Celtic to keep their hopes of a long European campaign alive. Second-half goals from Lars Stindl and André Hahn made the difference in front of 57,814 fans at Celtic Park. It was the club’s first away win in the competition in exactly 39 years, having last triumphed on the road on 19th October 1977 against Red Star Belgrade.
Gladbach dominated the match from the very early stages, and came close to taking the lead sooner through Stindl and Ibrahima Traoré in particular. Their high pressing game was causing a lot of problems for the Scottish champions, and further chances fell the way of Jonas Hofmann and Hahn, but it remained scoreless at the break.
But the Foals finally got their reward in the second period when Celtic defender Kolo Touré attempted to let the ball go out of play, but Hahn’s persistence kept it alive and helped it on to Stindl, who fired in through the legs of Craig Gordon. It was another error from Touré that allowed Hahn to finally settle affairs in favour of the away side.
