Dortmund win German Super Cup SUPER HERO . . . Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (with Spiderman mask) celebrates his goal
SUPER HERO . . . Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (with Spiderman mask) celebrates his goal

SUPER HERO . . . Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (with Spiderman mask) celebrates his goal

GERMANY. — Borussia Dortmund offered reasons to suggest it won’t simply be another Bayern Munich procession in this season’s Bundesliga as they impressively beat their Bavarian rivals in the Super Cup.
Goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang secured victory in the curtain-raiser at Signal Iduna Park as Bayern were bossed from start to finish.

But how much can we really read into this result? 12 months ago, Jurgen Klopp’s side beat Bayern 4-2 on this same ground in the same competition and duly went on to finish a distant 19 points behind, as well as losing to them in the Cup final. And the Bayern side that lost here were well below full strength, with Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and Bastian Schweinsteiger among the absentees from the squad and World Cup heroes Mario Gotze and Philippe Lahm starting on the bench.

The team that lines up on the opening day of the Bundesliga season against Wolfsburg at the Allianz Arena on Friday week will be a completely different proposition. But this is a result for Dortmund to hold on to and their fans certainly celebrated as though the result is a good omen for the nine months to come.

They fielded Ciro Immobile, the top scorer in Serie A last season who moved from Torino, and he troubled Manuel Neuer with a 10th-minute effort that flew narrowly wide. The World Cup-winning goalkeeper was forced into action when Oliver Kirch found space to shoot inside the box, diving to his left to deny the Dortmund man. With the vocal home crowd encouraged, it wasn’t long before Borussia took a deserved lead for their early pressure. It was a move started and finished by Mkhitaryan, who ghosted past youngster Gianluca Gaudino before playing in Aubameyang down the left.

The striker’s effort was blocked but it came out invitingly for the Armenian, who rattled the ball past Neuer and into the bottom left corner.
Dortmund continued to dictate the pace, with Thomas Muller surprisingly anonymous and Bayern’s midfield unable to gain any control. Gabon forward Aubameyang tested Neuer at his near post, but the goalkeeper produced a low reaction save. — Mailonline.

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