Bayern Munich 1 Zenit St Petersburg 1

Posted on April 25, 2008 
Filed Under Uefa Cup

An Own goal by Bayern’s Lucio gave Zenit the upper hand in this semi final first leg & the away goal.Bayern will now have to score in Russia if they want to make the final in Manchester next month. Bayern made all the early possession & the running but couldn’t make any chances or any really clear cut.Bastian Schweinsteiger had bayern’s first good shot but it didn’t really test the keeper .Bayern then went one up in the 20th minute when ZeRoberto ran into the box with pace & was brought down by Fernando Ricksen which brought the ref to point to the spot Ricksen was booked for his high challenge which means he now misses the second leg.Ribery then stepped up to take the penalty which was a very poor taken one which the goalie Viatcheslav Malafeev saved but the rebound came straight back to Ribery who then put it into the net to score.Malafeev was then called upon a few more times in the first half when he had to save from a Ze Roberto free kick & then being very alert to keep out Martin Demichelis.Just before the break Oliver Kahn was called upon to save from Radek Shirl & then Igor Denisov who had his shot blocked .

Bayern started the second half in good fashion as they twice tested Malafeev with shots from Schweinsteiger.You could see that Bayernwere missing there leading goal scorer Luca Toni who was suspended for this match.If the truth was there it was,when Zenit equalized in the 63rd minute when Bayern defender Lucio headed a hard hit cross from Viktor Faitzulin past a perplexed Oliver Khan & into the net.Khan was then subbed moments later & was replaced with Michael Rensing & Schweinsteigerwas replaced with Christian Lell.The game then went into overdrive as both teams had chances at each end with the best falling to Lucio from a ZeRoberto corner but both teams had to settle for the draw in this interesting football match.

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