Five minutes before half-time of Bayern’s 5-0 Champions League win over Rostov, Hummels saw a powerful diving header brilliantly saved by Rostov goalkeeper Soslan Dzhanaev. Not only were there great team performances, but some starring individual ones.
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This will be Rostov’s first Champions League campaign after they surprisingly beat Ajax in the play-offs.
Indeed, the now Carlo Ancelotti-managed side have gone at least as far as the semi-finals of the Champions League in each of the last five consecutive seasons and have achieved two runners-up placings and a title through the last seven years. An emphatic 9-2 aggregate win over Young Boys was followed by an impressive 2-1 opening day Bundesliga win over Bayer Leverkusen.
“None of us really knows the opponents we’re going to face”, Lahm told reporters when asked about the upcoming clash with the Russian outfit. Ever since he made the senior team, he’s learned under the guidance of Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti, two of the best football minds in the world.
Gladbach will be without Patrick Hermann, who picked up a hamstring injury in the defeat at Freiburg, while Manchester City could welcome Ilkay Gundogan into their squad for the first time since joining from Borussia Dortmund in the summer.
MF Joshua Kimmich, 9 – In just 10 days, Germany’s new Wunderkind has scored his first worldwide goal, slotted a debut goal in the Bundesliga and, to top it all, netted a Champions League double.
The full-back started the move off by running past a few players and played the ball to Frank Ribery who in turn cut the ball back to Bernat who made no mistake to round off a ideal night for Bayern.
Ex-Lazio player Marco Ballota remains the oldest at 43 years and 252 days. “The team must be kept fresh and the team must be motivated”. The match starts at 19:45 on 13 September 2016. They played out a 1-1 draw at Netherlands as Noboa and Klaasen scored for the two sideds, but a 4-1 victory at Russian Federation put them through. “They will be tough to break down”.
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Alexis Sanchez struck with 12 minutes left as Arsenal came from behind to earn an unlikely 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League opener on Tuesday. “The fans have waited long enough”.
