Bundesliga News: Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Bayern Munich – Full Time Analysis (Part 2)
The starting line up for Borussia Dortmund was 1 Roman Weidenfeller, 15 Mats Hummels, 4 Neven Subotic, 29 Marcel Schmelzer, 26 Lukasz Piszczek, 8 Nuri Sahin, 22 Sven Bender, 18 Lucas Barrios, 23 Shinji Kagawa, 19 Kevin Großkreutz and 16 Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Substitutions: 27 Felipe Santana, 14 Markus Feulner, 32 Antonio da Silva, 30 Tamas Hajnal, 20 Mitchell Langerak, 7 Robert Lewandowski and 44 Marc Hornschuh.
The starting line up for Bayern Munich was 1 Hans-Jörg Butt, 28 Holger Badstuber, 5 Daniel van Buyten, 4 Edson Braafheid, 21 Philipp Lahm, 23 Danijel Pranjic, 17 Mark Van Bommel, 33 Mario Gomez, 31 Bastian Schweinsteiger, 39 Toni Kroos and 25 Thomas Müller.
Substitutions: 18 Miroslav Klose, 6 Martín Demichelis, 16 Andreas Ottl, 11 Ivica Olic, 44 Anatoliy Tymoschuk and 35 Thomas Kraft.
Substitutions for Borussia Dortmund took place in the following manner: Robert Lewandowski replaced Shinji Kagawa (75th minute), Markus Feulner replaced Lucas Barrios (86th minute) and Antonio da Silva replaced Nuri Sahin (87th minute).
Substitutions for Bayern Munich took place in the following manner: Martín Demichelis replaced Daniel van Buyten (45th minute) and Ivica Olic replaced Edson Braafheid (61st minute).
All the yellow cards were taken by Bayern Munich players in the following sequence: Martín Demichelis (67th minute), Ivica Olic (80th minute) and Bastian Schweinsteiger (83rd minute).
Ironically it was Bayern Munich that possessed the ball for most of the time. Nonetheless Borussia Dortmund did make more plays and looked more aggressive when they had the ball totally reminding of the footballing metaphor: "its what you do with the ball
at your feet rather than how long you keep it at your feet".
Also Dortmund had more shots to score. They had 13 attempts to score a goal out of which 3 were on target. Munich on the other hand had 9 chances and two of them were on target.
Munich also got two more corner kicks than Dortmund. Munich got their hands on to8 corners while Dortmund acquired just one. The saves made by Dortmund were 2 while Munich’s goal keeper made just 1.
Also Munich committed to 4 offsides in contrast to Dortmund’s 2. Coincidentally over the whole match both teams made the same number of fouls, 17.
Now Borussia Dortmund is at the 2nd position in the German League Bundesliga; they have played 7 games out of which 6 have been victorious and 1 has been an away loss. They have 18 points and are separated from the 3rd positioned Hannover
with 5 points.
Bayern Munich on the other hand is at the 12th position in the German League Bundesliga; they have played 7 games out of which 2 have been won, 2 have been drawn and 3 have been lost. They have 8 points and are separated from the 13th
positioned Werder Bremen on the basis of goal difference.
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