Injury Time Heroic Hands Bayern A Quadruple
German champions, Bayern Munich had beaten PSG in the final of the UEFA Champions League to book a Super Cup date with Europa winners Sevilla who came all out to give them a good run for their money last night.
The champions League winners fell behind for the first time this season in the 14th minute when the VAR judged David Alaba had fouled Ivan Rakitic in the area handing the Spanish side a penalty which Ocampos converted.
Goretzka got Bayern back on level terms when Mueller and Robert Lewandowski combined in the area for the midfielder to smash home the equaliser with 34 minutes gone.
The game ended on leveled terms at half time, but after the break, Bayern turned up the heat on the Europa League holders.
With Bayern having two second half goals disallowed coupled with a nurse of missed chances, the game dragged into extra time.
Sevilla made a great start to extra-time with Bayern in all sorts of trouble, but Manuel Neuer’s was on full day duty and Sevilla couldn’t get anything past him.
All Neure could do, really, was as keep Sevilla at bay and stop them from scoring, it was going to take a goal scoring heroics from his teammates to crown his efforts and that came in the 104th minute when substitute, Javier Martinez struck to hand the Champions of Europe a fourth title in 2020 at the Puskas Arena, Budapest, much to the unchecked glee of his teammates.
Having equalised with a crucial 120th-minute goal seven years ago when Bayern won the 2013 Super Cup on penalties against Chelsea, Martinez sealed his name as Bayern Munich’s Super Cup Hero once again.
Can Bayern win their fifth title of the year when they host Borussia Dortmund in Munich for the German Super Cup on Wednesday?
