Heynckes, That Rotten Old Man, Was Really Cunning!

On the evening of February 20, in the twenty-third round of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich traveled to face Nuremberg in the Bavarian derby.

Strictly speaking, this was not a match worth paying attention to.

Bayern Munich had surged far ahead at the top of the Bundesliga table, while Nuremberg sat seventeenth and was highly likely to be relegated.

With two teams like these facing off, even with Bayern playing away, there was really little doubt that they would win.

But before the match, Ribéry was injured again.

The Frenchman had only just returned after being out for four months. After finally making his comeback, he had barely played a few matches before getting injured again.

Fortunately, it was only a minor injury, but it was still worrying.

Having just fought tooth and nail against AC Milan in midweek, Heynckes rotated the squad for this match.

Contento replaced Marcelo in the starting lineup, while Badstuber also started. Along with Toni Kroos and Thomas Müller, Bayern fielded a younger lineup.

In the first half, Thomas Müller opened the scoring for Bayern, but after the sides switched ends, Gündoğan helped Nuremberg equalize, bringing both teams back to the same starting line.

The match then entered a stalemate, with neither side able to break the deadlock.

By the sixty-fifth minute of the second half, seeing that his team still could not break the deadlock, Heynckes finally lost patience. He immediately made a substitution, sending Su Dong on for Klose.

In the seventy-seventh minute, Bayern won the ball in midfield. Schweinsteiger came to an abrupt stop before sending a long ball over the top.

The ball landed precisely behind the Nuremberg defense.

Su Dong quickly beat the offside trap and surged forward. After controlling Schweinsteiger's long pass inside the left side of the penalty