Bayern beat Egypt’s Al-Ahly on Monday (0-2) with two goals from Poland’s Robert Lewandowski, qualifying for the Club World Cup final, where they will play against the Mexican Tigres.
The game had a good first half for Bayern and a disastrous second half in which the European champions looked tired and allowed too much to the Egyptian team.
Bayern dominated from the beginning at their whim a game that became a kind of monologue for the Hansi Flick team that throughout the first half the only thing that could be reproached for was a lack of forcefulness.
The game was played in the Al-Ahly half and Bayern had the ball and roamed around the area although chances were rare. In the 7th minute Serge Gnabry headed over the goal, in the 16th minute a long pass from Joshua Kimmich was not controlled by Kingsley Coman, who would have had a free way to the goal.
However, the dominance was so clear and the difficulties for Al-Ahly so great that it was a matter of time before the goal would come and it came, in the 17th minute, with a shot inside the area by Robert Lewandowski. The play started with a Benjamin Pavard cross from the right that a defender blocked halfway, the rebound was left to Coman who crossed Gnabry so that he left it to Lewandowski who defined without problems.
After the Egyptian goal, he tried to shake off some isolated counterattack without causing real problems for Bayern, who had several more occasions before the break: two at Marc Roca’s feet in 24 and 27, one by Lewandowski in 37 and another. of Alphonso Davies in the 40.
In the second half, Al-Ahly showed a clear improvement, above all by increasing the intensity in the brand, while Bayern had a slump that even made us think that with a bit of luck the Egyptian team could end up giving the European champion difficulties. .
At no point was Manuel Neuer’s goal in real danger and towards the end of the game, in 86, Lewandowski sentenced Leroy Sané’s center to the center on one of the few occasions Bayern had in the second half.