Back in the Final

On May 2, in the thirtieth round of the Bundesliga, Bayern hosted Borussia Mönchengladbach.

At the end of the league season, there were two kinds of teams that were hardest to play against.

One was a team fighting for the title, and the other was a team battling relegation.

Borussia Mönchengladbach belonged to the latter category.

After twenty-nine rounds, they sat seventeenth in the Bundesliga table, but were only two points behind fifteenth-place Cottbus—just one match's result away.

So even away against Bayern, Borussia Mönchengladbach gave one hundred percent.

After exhausting themselves in the midweek away match against Manchester United, with another home game against Manchester United coming the following week, Heynckes conserved his team's strength and made heavy changes to the lineup.

But the rotation was too extensive, and the team's overall performance was far from ideal.

It was not until the thirty-third minute that Podolski lofted a diagonal ball behind the defense, and Olić fired a low shot into the net to give Bayern the lead.

In the thirty-eighth minute, a Free Kick from Borussia Mönchengladbach caused Rensing to fumble. During his second attempt to save it, he directly brought down Bradley, who had followed up for the rebound, and a Penalty Kick was awarded.

Borussia Mönchengladbach captain Dams took the Penalty Kick himself and scored, leveling the match for the visitors.

The game then fell into another stalemate.

It was not until the sixtieth minute that Heynckes finally lost patience and made a substitution, sending Su Dong onto the field.

Just two minutes later, Toni Kroos sent a diagonal pass from the left into the middle of the box. Su Dong broke into open space and, completely unmarked at the near post, snapped his head at the ball and sent it into the near corner, putting Bayern