📸 Wild Bundesliga opener: VfB blow big chance & FCB strike cold

📸 Wild Bundesliga opener: VfB blow big chance & FCB strike cold

If the first half hour is anything to go by, we’re in for a truly exciting night. FC Bayern and VfB Stuttgart are currently opening the 64th Bundesliga season, one many have been eagerly awaiting.

The first goal — we now know that for sure — goes to FC Bayern. A Kimmich corner found Upamecano’s head at the near post, and he put the ball into the net (21').

So the record champions are in front, even though it hadn’t necessarily looked that way.

After a lively opening spell, the first big chance did not fall to the home side, but to the visitors at the Allianz Arena.

A deflected header from Prömel dropped in the Bayern box right at the feet of Tiago Tomás, who failed to put the ball in the net from point-blank range. Instead, his shot clipped the top of the crossbar and landed in the netting behind the goal. That was almost a certain goal and belongs in the category of: “How did that not go in?!”

The fact that Stuttgart failed to take that chance — and also made nothing of the two half-chances before it — came back to haunt them shortly after.

Bayern then responded: an Olise free-kick struck the woodwork (17'), and shortly afterwards they found the breakthrough.

So far, we’ve been treated to a more than lively match that leaves you wanting more.

W hat do you think? Can Stuttgart come back into it? Write it in the comments!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.