Su Dong's Version of the Pendulum Dribble

When French referee Belyan Layek blew the final whistle, Alvalade Stadium lost all its cheers and fell utterly silent.

The scoreboard showed a shocking scoreline of six-nil.

Bayern had brutally slaughtered Sporting Lisbon on their own turf.

In the first half, Sporting Lisbon's fans could still respond with cheers and applause when Su Dong scored. Even when Ribéry scored again before halftime, they could still accept it. But in the second half, as Bayern kept scoring, they fell silent and grew increasingly dejected.

Su Dong had scored only the opening goal, but he had assisted three others.

Ribéry and Robben had both scored braces, while Klose had also found the net.

It could be said that this match had been a magnificent harvest for Bayern's attack.

With a six-nil away win over Sporting Lisbon, Bayern had already secured their place in the quarterfinals.

They knew the defending champions were strong, but they had never imagined they would be this dominant.

By the time the match ended, many Sporting Lisbon players found the result hard to accept. Their twenty-two-year-old captain, Moutinho, was crouched on the pitch, looking utterly miserable.

This defeat was worse and more brutal than their previous two-five loss to Barcelona in the group stage.

At least in that match, they had created threats and displayed their own strengths. But against Bayern, apart from gaining the upper hand during the opening twenty minutes, they had spent the rest of the match being dominated and scrambling to cope.

The Champions League group stage had given them confidence and made them believe they might have a chance of reaching the quarterfinals.

But this first leg of the round of sixteen against Bayern had completely forced them to face reality.

Before the mighty Bayern, they had been utterly helpless, let alone capable