📸 Wild Bundesliga opener: VfB spurn big chance, FCB punish | OneFootball

Finally, Bundesliga football is back! FC Bayern and VfB Stuttgart are currently kicking off the 64th Bundesliga season, which many have been eagerly awaiting.

The first goal — we now know that for sure — goes to FC Bayern. A Kimmich corner found Upamecano’s head at the near post, and he nodded the ball into the net (21').

So the record champions are in front, even though it hadn’t really looked that way.

After a lively opening spell, the first big chance did not fall to the home side, but to the visitors at the Allianz Arena.

A deflected header from Prömel dropped right at the feet of Tiago Tomás in the Bayern penalty area, but he failed to put the ball in the net from point-blank range. Instead, his shot clipped the top of the crossbar and landed in the netting behind the goal. It was almost a certain goal and belonged in the category of: “How did that not go in?!”

Stuttgart failing to take that chance — and also not making anything of the two half-chances before it — came back to haunt them shortly after.

Bayern then responded: an Olise free-kick hit the woodwork (17'), and shortly after that came the breakthrough.

The action stayed lively in the second half as well. After a huge save by Manuel Neuer, Vagnoman got to the rebound and fired the ball into the net with a drop-kick to make it 1-1 (52').

Just three minutes later, Olise converted a magical Kimmich pass in behind the defense to restore Munich’s lead (55'). In the 58th minute, goalscorer Vagnoman miscued a clearance, and the ball ended up in Stuttgart’s own net to seal the 3-1 scoreline.

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