hakemler:claus bo larsen, henrik sonderby, bill rené hansen (dan)
steau bükreş:robinson zapata, george ogăraru, dorin goian, jános székely(82’ pantelis kapetanos), antónio semedo, dayro moreno, arthur bernhardt(71’ bogdan stancu), juan toja(77’ ovidiu petre), petre marin, florin lovin, sorin ghionea
teknik direktör:marius lăcătuş
bayern münich:michael rensing, lucio, daniel van buyten, martín demichelis, luca toni, zé roberto(75’ andreas ottl), mark van bommel, miroslav klose, (46’ lukas podolski) philipp lahm, christian lell, bastian schweinsteiger(84’ tim borowski)
steaua bucharest has registered a failure at the start of the 2008-2009 edition of the champions league, losing its home game against germany's bayern münchen, score 1-0 (1-0 at half time). the game counted for the first round of group f. van buyten scored the game's sole goal in the 15th minute. ın the 30th minute dayro moreno shook the right-hand bar of rensing's goal post. arthuro shook the woodwork for steaua once more in the 58th minute. bogdan stancu's goal was overruled in the 76th minute, the referee seeing a fault. jürgen klinsmann, the coach of bayern münchen, has stated after the game that he is very pleased with the victory against steaua, but conceded that his team had good luck too. "ı am extremely pleased for winning these points and for starting the champions league on the right footing. ı would have liked to see us score once more in the first half, we should have done it and then we would have had more confidence. we were lucky when steaua shook the woodwork twice. we could have scored faster, with klose coming close to doing that in the 6th minute, and it would have been easier for us", klinsmann stated. ın turn, marius lăcătuş stated that a draw in the game against bayern münchen would have been an adequate representation of how things were on the pitch. "considering the number of goal scoring chances, a draw would have been fair. bayern has more experience and it knew how to take advantage of that, knew when to disrupt the game, when to push, it won the one-on-one duels and has physically dominated us", lăcătuş stated after the game. "ı am upset with the result. we started the game cautiously, hoping to surprise bayern through the superior speed and technique that some of our players have. unfortunately we failed and we conceded a goal from a set-piece and then we had to be more aggressive and we had to try to obtain a positive result...", lăcătuş pointed out.
yardımcı hakemler: henrik sønderby (den), bill rené hansen (den)
4. hakem: michael svendsen (den)
steaua: robinson zapata (gk), george ogăraru, dorin goian, jános székely (dk. 82 pantelis kapetanos), antónio semedo, dayro moreno, arthuro (dk. 71 bogdan stancu), juan carlos toja (dk. 77 ovidiu petre), petre marin, florin lovin, sorin ghionea (c)
yedekler: cornel cernea (gk), paweł golański, eugen baciu, tiago gomes
teknik direktör: marius lacatus (rou)
bayern: michael rensing (gk), lúcio, daniel van buyten, martín demichelis, luca toni, zé roberto (dk. 75 andreas ottl), mark van bommel (c), miroslav klose (dk. 46 lukas podolski), philipp lahm, christian lell, bastian schweinsteiger (dk. 84 tim borowski)
yedekler: jörg butt (gk), josé ernesto sosa, massimo oddo, breno
bayern back as van buyten sinks steaua published: thursday 18 september 2008, 0.40cet
fc steaua bucureşti 0-1 fc bayern münchen
the german champions made a winning return to the competition as daniel van buyten's first-half headed goal clinched a group f victory in romania.
by trevor huggins from steaua stadium
fc bayern münchen made a winning return to the uefa champions league after a first-half strike by daniel van buyten secured a 1-0 victory over fc steaua bucureşti in group f.
even contest bayern, who played uefa cup football last season after a run of ten consecutive appearances in europe's élite club competition, came out narrowly on top after the belgium defender's 15th-minute header settled an evenly balanced game. marius lăcătuş's steaua, who travel to acf fiorentina on matchday 2, will be ruing several missed opportunities and looking to make amends in florence.
bayern on the attack the away team were quick to settle, with a lot of their forward momentum coming down the right flank through wing back christian lell and steaua's defence struggling to keep its shape. it was no surprise when the german champions took the lead in the 15th minute or that lell was involved, with the defender drawing a foul by jános székely. bastian schweinsteiger curled over the free-kick from the right and van buyten got in first with a glancing header into the far corner that gave keeper robinson zapata no chance.
steaua so close steaua shrugged off the setback and could easily have been level seven minutes later, when midfielder florin lovin let fly a wickedly swinging shot which bayern keeper michael rensing could only parry. antónio semedo was first to the loose ball but could only spear it into the side-netting. bayern looked good value for their advantage. however, they needed another let-off in the 32nd minute when steaua playmaker dayro moreno fizzed in a low shot and rensing's miscued block sent the ball on to the post and out.
high tempo both sides kept the tempo high as steaua probed for an equaliser and bayern striker luca toni, making his uefa champions league debut, kept zapata busy at the other end. the colombian produced two superb stops to deny first a booming volley from schweinsteiger, and then a far-post effort from the italian as he met miroslav klose's inviting cross from the right.
enter podolski bayern coach jürgen klinsmann swapped klose for lukas podolski at half-time, yet it was the steaua stadium hosts who appeared the more dangerous after the interval. they should have equalised in the 58th minute when moreno, despite being on the ground, managed somehow to scoop the ball through to arthur bernhardt. the brazilian forward spun round on the spot to fire in a low shot that had rensing beaten but ricocheted out from the left-hand post.
home pressure bayern weathered the storm and the four-time european champions failed to take a fine opportunity to inflict what would have been a telling second strike on the 2007/08 romanian league runners-up. toni was put clean through on the break, only for the bundesliga's top scorer of last season to drive straight at the advancing zapata. steaua kept searching for a breakthrough, however, and moreno, their best player on the night, smacked in a low attempt late on which tested rensing.
no second goal the visitors, who host olympique lyonnais in two weeks' time, refused to give up the chase for a second goal and lucio was agonisingly close with a drive that flashed just wide. even so, the munich team, still without france playmaker franck ribéry after an ankle injury at uefa euro 2008™, capped a solid performance with an ideal result on their return to the top table.
