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Thomas Muller; Suspended!

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Bayern Munich’s Tomas Muller was recently suspended from both legs of the Champions League round-of-16. In the match against Ajax FC, Muller was trying to settle a high ball, but did not end up with the ball at his feet.358dbc94-f6a9-40d2-9717-d31aaac8399c However, instead of bringing the ball down, the boot ended up in the back of Ajax defender, Nicolas Tagliafico’s head.

Tagliafico was examined and appeared to have needed stitches as well as several staples put into the back of his head. Tomas Muller received an immediate red card, ejecting him from the match as well as the next. Tragliafico came back in the 95th minute to score the equalizer to put the match 3-3 for the final score.

Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich

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On November 10th, 2018, the first place team, Borussia Dortmund played the fifth place team, Bayern Munich, for the 11th game in Bundesliga. Bundesliga is a professional association football league, located in Germany, containing 18 different clubs. Dortmund’s current record is 8-3-0 (W-L-T) while Munich’s is 6-2-3 (W-L-T). Munich knew coming into the match, that they were goinBBE4A1A4-A1A6-49CB-B7BF-FCD0DAF9CA03g to have to play an almost perfect game with little to no mistakes to capture a win over the current leaders in the standings.

In the 26th minute, Lewandowski, from Munich, scored the first goal of the match with a diving header. The cross was put in from Serge Gnabry from the right side of the 18 yard box. Thus putting Munich at a 1-0 lead early in the match. At the start of the second half, in the 49th minute, a penalty was called inside the box on Neuer (goal keeper) from Bayern Munich. Center Midfielder, Reus stepped up to take the penalty kick, placing it in the right hand side of the goal while Neuer dives to the left. Making the match tied 1-1. In the 52nd minute, Lewandowski scored his second goal of the match with yet another header. The ball was played in to the box from Muller to Gnabry. Gnabry then back-heeled it to Kimmich who then chipped it up for perfect header by Lewandowski. Munich took the lead 2-1 and kept it that way for about 15 minutes. Piszczek crossed the ball to Reus for a one touch finish in the back of the net, tying the match once again. Reus laid the ball off to Sancho who played the ball through the back line to Paco Alcacer, who was then 1v1 with the goalie and placed the ball perfectly in the bottom corner of the far post. Making the final score, 3-2 Dortmund

The overall statistics of the match were in favor of Munich, but they could not finish of the chances they had made for themselves. Dortmund had 11 shots with 5 on frame and 3 hitting the back of the net, while Munich had 10 shots with 3 on frame, and 2 making it into the goal. Munich had possession for 57% of the game completing 84% of the 602 passes made. Dortmund had possession for 43% of the game completing 80% of the 465 passes that they made.