Bayern set the tone

Opposed to one of the top contenders to succeed him suspected, on Saturday at Augsburg, Bayern won the German Super Cup at the expense of Schalke 04 (2-0), thanks to goals by Klose and Müller. A victory full of authority-like warning a fortnight now the next championship. And while playing without Robben and Munich Ribery.

Sacred to the top of the Bundesliga last spring and into the German Cup, Bayern was still a little hungry ... Discount for every day the past two years, the property reverted Super Club Munich this Saturday for the first time since 1990. Also rounded up by the ogre Bavaria in 1982 and 1987, the first award of the season in Germany is therefore now in quadruplicate winners club dear to Franz Beckenbauer. Only Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund can claim to be as important in their window.

While it is symbolic, the trophy does not give rise to less greed of both teams, this Saturday night, which were striving to match input view their claims. Beyond the cup is a real psychological ascendancy that was played between two teams, contenders for the next assumed league title two weeks of the resumption of the Bundesliga. So the first minutes of the meeting will they have been removed.

Winner one week earlier from a very experimental because Bayern deprived of his globalist, in preparation match - doubled in support of Raul (3-1) - Schalke 04, armed with this precedent, creates the earliest opportunity, through his new star striker. Alerted to the surface by Uchida, another fresh recruit to the team from Gelsenkirchen, the former Madrid's still too uncrossed his head to worry a favorite Kraft Butt for the occasion (6th).

Raul place the first banderilla

Two minutes later, in Munich to give the public the thrill of Augsburg. A recovery, Müller, who did not resume training until five days earlier, shows that it is already in the legs by spreading panic in the opposing defense before shifting Schweinsteiger. Also to its advantage in this match, the German international splits then hit a dry and smooth as Neuer other globalist just returned from leave, working to remove the tips of gloves (8th).

Stalker in the absence of a Robben shot in the thigh and unavailable for the next two months - Ribery, considered too short physically, also missing the call - then applies Olic in harassing the rear side Schalke right, but finding a buyer for its many centers. Clearly embarrassed by the density of midfield Bavaria, the Ruhr undergoing training, flounder, but does not break. For the moment at least.

Müller and Klose keep their habits

Past the break, Bayern tries to raise the tone and lack of finally finding the flaw while Klose, perfectly served by Schweinsteiger, hits the right post Neuer (52). A few minutes later, his own gloves, however, that the porter at Gelsenkirchen preserves his own, by intercepting the price of a beautiful recreation center with a line destined Lahm Klose (69th). Two class actions which Schalke 04 has merit but to respond with timeliness. On a diving header from Raul first (53rd), then with a shot gun in the area signed Edu (73) - Kraft then splitting two outstanding parades its cages to keep inviolate.

A strong influence of the defense prepared by Felix Magath, Munich Ultimately, however, reach the goal. While the match switches in its last quarter, Klose, launched in depth by Pranjic, gets rid of Neuer shifting involuntarily Müller probably a bit out of the game best scorer of the Mannschaft in South Africa does not obviously lack target, and releases the scoreboard with a flat foot insured (1-0, 75th). Stunned, Schalke 04 down flag in the final stride. Ultimate beneficiary of an overflow Olic in the right flank, Klose doubled the lead and finished Gelsenkirchen (2-0, 82nd). For Bayern, the Supercup is acquired. Place in the German Cup in ten days and the championship in two weeks.