Pep
Guardiola hope of getting all the domestic trophy was dashed as Dortmund claim
the trophy with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring the
goals for Dortmund.
Dortmund dominated the game from start of the
match to finish and, like a year ago when they triumphed 4-2, drew first blood
ahead of the official start to the 2014/15 season.
When
these two teams line up for their first Bundesliga fixture of the season,
Dortmund's starting XI is likely to bear more resemblance to the one which took
to the field on Wednesday evening.
Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp named practically his strongest team
with Guardiola counting on only three of his World Cup winners - Manuel Neuer
in goal, Thomas Muller in midfield and Jerome Boateng in defense.
Robert Lewandowski did not shine against his former team-mates, as
he saw relatively little of the ball as the hosts attacked from the outset.
Lukasz Piszczek's shot from an angle was parried away by an
increasingly busy Neuer in the 17th minute before the hosts took a deserved
lead six minutes later.
Mkhitaryan led the ball through with authority before trying to
thread a pass through into the path of Aubameyang. A block from David Alaba
prevented the Gabon forward from getting in a shot, but the ball fell kindly
for the Armenian, who flashed his shot unstoppably to the left of Neuer.
To make matters worse for Bayern, they lost defender Javi Martinez
to injury after half an hour.
He struck the arm of Marcel Schmelzer with his knee and needed to
be carried straight into the dressing room, with Dante taking his place.
Dortmund's attacks were unrelenting and Sebastian Kehl stung
Neuer's palms again before he and Jonas Hofmann tested the man voted the best
goalkeeper at the World Cup.
At the other end, Mitchell Langerak did not want to be outdone as
he denied Lewandowski in typical Neuer style, blocking the Pole's shot with his
upper body in the very first minute of the second half.
Mario Gotze, who preceded Lewandowski in moving from Dortmund to
Munich by a year, was greeted by a chorus of whistles when he took to the field
- but jeers turned to cheers within minutes when Aubameyang doubled Dortmund's
lead.
He exchanged passes with Piszczek before moving into the centre to
meet the Pole's cross ahead of Boateng and head unstoppably past Neuer, producing
a Spiderman mask to celebrate his goal in the guise of his nickname.
Dortmund continued to look the more threatening, but a third goal
was not needed with Ciro Immobile guilty of missing the most chances on his
competitive debut for the club following his summer switch from Torino.

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