Last
year, Mario Gotze was one of those instrumental in Dortmund's successes. Last Saturday, Mario Gotze leads the charge
to defeat his former team in front of a silenced hometown crowd in the game
between Bundesliga's top tier teams.
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| Mario Gotze tried to muffle his celebration after scoring a goal against his former team |
Things
were even for both teams in the early goings as neither of them was able to
penetrate the tenacious defending of both teams backlines imposed against the
other. Manuel Neuer's confident block
against a one on one situation with Marco Reus highlighted the excellent
defenses displayed by both Dortmund and Bayern.
Then
the most anticipated moment came in the 55th minute when former
Dortmund player Mario Gotze entered the game substituting striker Mario
Manzukic. He is welcomed like a long
lost son by the crowd. Ironically, however, it was this son who stunned them
later. In the 66th minute,
Gotze received a pass from Thomas Muller who squared and poked a right foot
shot that was too far for Wiedenfeller to even touch. Gotze raised his two arms, as if to mute his
celebration, in front of a silenced and stunned crowd of his former team.
Less
than 5 minutes before stoppage time, Dutch international Arjen Robben broke
away from a lob by Thiago Alcantara and chipped the ball into the net as Munich
scored its second goal of the evening.
Adding insult to injury, two minutes later in the 87th
minute, when Thomas Muller added another goal from a Philip Lahm cross to
complete a victorious night for the visitors and great disappointment to the
home town crowd.
