UEFA Champions League match report: Napoli 1-1 Bayern Munich: First half report
Napoli held Bayern Munich to a 1-1 draw in a UEFA Champions League encounter at the Stadio San Paolo on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Toni-Kroos-c35425 opened the scoring in the 2nd minute of the game for the visitors before Holger Badstuber’s own goal put the host’s on level terms before the half-time. Bayern still atop the table with 7 points from three
games played. On the other hand, Napoli remains 2nd with 5 points from their 3 matches.
Walter Mazzarri made only one change to his side from the 2-1 defeat at the hands of Parma over the weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Camilo-c8287 Zuniga in the midfield.
On the other hand, the visitors played the same team that thrashed Hertha http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Berlin-c7536 4-0 over the weekend.
The Bavarians continued their wonderful goal-scoring form and made an instant impact in the 2nd minute of the match. Jerome Boateng found Kroos with a lovely through ball down the middle and the German international
whisked past the defenders to coolly slot his shot past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Morgan-De-Sanctis-c26801 to make it 1-0 for the visitors.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003 immediately went on the offensive and had few decent openings to find an equaliser. Bayern dominated the early proceedings and looked extremely dangerous going forward.
Badstuber picked up the first booking of the match in the 7th minute after a vicious challenge on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ezequiel-Lavezzi-c13073.
Jupp Heynckes’s men enjoyed plenty of possession and stamped their authority on the game in the early minutes. Kroos had a lovely opportunity to double his and his team’s tally for the evening in the 12th minute. Bastian
Schweinsteiger found the midfielder unmarked in a lovely position but he fired his shot wide from a close distance.
Die Bayern continued to impress as Mario Gomez tried his luck with a powerful strike from 25 yards but the ball went whiskers away from the near post.
Both teams played on the offensive but lacked the killer ball in the final third. Schweinsteiger and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Paolo-Cannavaro-c29080 were booked for fouls just before the half hour mark.
The Germans were all over the Neapolitan but the host’s always looked dangerous on the counter attack. Gokhan Inler played a lovely through ball for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-Maggio-c9098, who led a strong run down the right flank and crossed low in
the middle only for Badstuber to deflect his clearance past his own goalkeeper to make it 1-1. That was so unfortunate way for Bayern to concede a goal after keeping 12 straight clean sheets.
The goal sparked the Azzurri as they looked confident and dictated terms in the final minutes of the first half. Maggio and Zuniga were booked for their poor tackles just before the whistle.
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