2012 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2012 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League , which was played between Bayern Munich and Chelsea FC from London on May 19, 2012 in the Allianz Arena in Munich . Chelsea FC won the game 4: 3 on penalties and won their first Champions League title. For the first time since 1984, a club, FC Bayern, held the soccer final of the highest European club competition in its own stadium. The game was also dubbed the “Finale dahoam” ( Bavarian for “final at home”) on the part of FC Bayern Munich . Because of the unfortunate defeat for Bayern, the event was also called "drama at home" by the press after the game.

The Allianz Arena served as the venue for the Champions League final for the first time. In Munich the final of the highest European soccer competition was played for the fourth time, with the previous games taking place in the Olympic Stadium . The event was followed live by 62,500 viewers in the Allianz Arena and around 300 million people worldwide on television. The TV signal was broadcast by Sky Deutschland . In the game, Chelsea played very defensively, which was heavily criticized by the German press. After 90 minutes of regular time, the score was 1: 1, no goals were scored in extra time .

venue

The Allianz Arena in the lighting for the 2012 Champions League final

In January 2009, the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon announced the Allianz Arena in Munich as the venue for the final of the 2011/12 Champions League season. As with all international games, the stadium was also referred to by UEFA as the Munich Football Arena for this final , as the association as the tenant and organizer and Allianz were not advertising partners.

With the previous competition, the European Champion's Cup, the Champions League final was held for the fourth time in the Bavarian capital after 1979 , 1993 and 1997 , with the previous games taking place in the Olympic Stadium . There, two days before the men's final, on May 17, 2012, the final of the Women's Champions League was played, which Olympique Lyon won 2-0 against 1. FFC Frankfurt .

The Munich City Council and UEFA agreed that, with organizational costs of around 1.3 million euros, Munich would contribute 76.9% of the costs, so that UEFA had only 300,000 euros in expenditure. Another 300,000 euros later had to be invested by the city of Munich in additional security measures.

62,500 tickets were sold for the game, of which 17,500 tickets per team were sold to their own fans. 7,000 more tickets were sold by UEFA itself to neutral fans. Paul Breitner has been named Match Ambassador by UEFA. After Bayern had qualified as a team for the Champions League final, there was occasional criticism of the award system, as there was a home advantage in favor of one team.

Team situation

FC Bayern: The "final at home"

Jupp Heynckes trained FC Bayern

Uli Hoeneß , club president of FC Bayern, announced at the annual general meeting in November 2010 that he wanted to take part in the 2012 Champions League final, as it would take place in the home stadium. In the previous season , Munich lost the final against Inter Milan 2-0. In the following season , FC Bayern failed again in the round of 16 against the same opponent.

In the 2011-12 season, FC Bayern qualified via the play-off games against FC Zurich for the Champions League after the club in pre-season in the Bundesliga behind Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen who scored the third spot. Before the first game of the season, Jupp Heynckes became the team's new coach. In Group A , his team prevailed against SSC Napoli , Manchester City and Villarreal FC . The first leg of the first knockout round at FC Basel was lost 0-1. However, FC Bayern won the second leg 7-0. In the quarter-finals, the team beat Olympique Marseille 2-0 in both games and met Real Madrid in the semi-finals . These games resulted in a 2-1 win in Munich and a 2-1 defeat at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid on penalties, which FC Bayern won 3-1.

Due to yellow card bans , FC Bayern had to replace several defensive players in the final with David Alaba , Holger Badstuber and Luiz Gustavo .

Bayern finished the championship in second place and lost the cup final 2-5 in the week before the Champions League final . Both titles went to Borussia Dortmund . In advance, team captain Philipp Lahm said : "A season without a title is a losing season at Bayern, even if you were in two finals and second in the championship."

Chelsea FC: The "old guard"

Roberto Di Matteo coached Chelsea FC

Chelsea FC had never won the most important European competition before this game. The team, which has since been referred to as the "old guard" due to the aged players , always made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 and 2009 , with the team reaching the finals in 2008, but there on penalties on league competitors Manchester United failed. In 2009, the semi-final match against FC Barcelona was marked by numerous wrong decisions by the referee, which caused Chelsea FC damage.

Chelsea FC announced the signing of coach André Villas-Boas , who replaced Carlo Ancelotti , ahead of the season . However, he was sacked on March 4, 2012 after his team had only won five out of their last 16 games, were 20 points behind Manchester City in the championship and in the Champions League after a 3-1 defeat in the first leg of the first leg against SSC Napoli was threatened with retirement. Villas-Boas has been replaced on an interim basis by his assistant coach Roberto Di Matteo .

As runner -up in the 2010/11 Premier League season , Chelsea had qualified directly for the Champions League. The team won the group there in front of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Valencia and KRC Genk , after winning all home games, playing twice away and losing to Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-1. In the round of 16, Chelsea won against SSC Napoli after a 3-1 defeat in the first leg, the second leg with the new coach 4-1 after extra time. In the quarter-finals, the Londoners beat Benfica Lisbon 1-0 in the first leg and defeated the opponent 2-1 in the second leg. The semi-final was played against last year's Champions League winner , FC Barcelona. The controversial last meeting in 2009, when Chelsea missed the finals shortly before the end, was remembered in many cases. Chelsea FC won the home game at Stamford Bridge with one goal after the only chance to score 1-0 and still went into the second leg as an outsider. In Barcelona, ​​the team managed to defend 2-2 with a defensive tactic, despite being sent off and their opponents numerous chances to score, including a penalty , after they were 2-0 down .

In the Premier League 2011/12 , the club was only sixth with 64 points and thus achieved the worst table position since the club was bought by investor Roman Abramowitsch in 2003. The only way to qualify for the next season of the Champions League was to win the Champions League. League title. Two weeks before the Munich final, the club won the 2012 FA Cup final against Liverpool 2-1.

At Chelsea, the defender Branislav Ivanović and the offensive players Raúl Meireles and Ramires , who had prepared a goal and scored one against Barcelona, ​​were suspended from yellow cards, as did team captain John Terry , who was sent off in the previous Champions League game against FC Barcelona was red-locked out.

Course of the game

Statistical comparison

FC Bayern		Chelsea FC
1	Gates		1
35	Shots		9
7th	Shots on goal		3
14th	Fouls		26th
1	Penalty kick		0
1	yellow cards		4th
0	Red cards		0
20th	Corners		1
1	Offside		2
2	Substitutions		2
56	Ball possession in%		44

With a 1-1 draw after the normal playing time of 90 minutes, the game went into overtime . After no goals were scored there, Chelsea won the penalty shoot-out.

First halftime

FC Bayern dominated the game from the start and had numerous chances to score. A shot by Bastian Schweinsteiger in the fifth minute from 18 meters away was cleared by Gary Cahill for a corner . Toni Kroos then shot past the goal from the same distance. In the 21st minute, Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech steered a shot by Arjen Robben from eight meters into the post. In the first 24 minutes, FC Bayern had 64% possession, a corner ratio of 7: 0 and a goal scoring ratio of 6: 0.

In the 34th minute of the game, Chelsea FC scored the first shot on goal through Juan Mata . After Thomas Müller had missed the goal of Chelsea with a volley two minutes later, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had to intervene for the first time a few moments later with an 18-meter shot by Salomon Kalou .

Mario Gómez missed two chances just before half-time: he twisted the ball in the opponent's penalty area in the 39th minute and shot over the goal in the 42nd minute.

Second halftime

Didier Drogba , Man of the Match , equalized

The second half began similarly to the previous one with the dominance of Bayern. Ribéry scored a goal in the 54th minute, but referee Pedro Proença saw the player offside . By the 70th minute, FC Bayern had already completed 26 shots on goal (which is a record for a Champions League final), but scored no goal. In the 83rd minute of play, Thomas Müller made it 1-0 with a header after Toni Kroos flanked his teammate from the left corner of the penalty area . A little later, the goalscorer was replaced by Daniel Van Buyten because of cramps . Didier Drogba headed the near post in the 88th minute after a corner kick brought in by Juan Mata. Manuel Neuer got his hand on the ball, but couldn't fend it off.

There were a total of 27: 7 shots and a corner ratio of 17: 1 in favor of FC Bayern by the end of the second half.

renewal

In the third minute of extra time, Franck Ribéry was fouled by Drogba in the Chelsea penalty area. The penalty kick was taken by Arjen Robben, who had failed a few weeks earlier in the Bundesliga with a decisive penalty shot by Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller . Čech was also able to parry. Ribéry was replaced injured in the 97th minute.

Even after the overtime break, FC Bayern dominated the game, but remained goalless. So the game ended 1: 1 after extra time. This means that all extensions to Champions League finals remained goalless up to this point.

penalties shoot

Philipp Lahm scored the first penalty

FC Bayern started with the first penalty in the penalty shoot-out. Philipp Lahm hit halfway into the right corner; Čech was still on the ball with his fingertips. When Juan Mata scored the first penalty for Chelsea, Manuel Neuer was able to parry him. The second FC Bayern penalty kicked by Mario Gómez was also converted. Chelsea followed suit through David Luiz , who hit the right corner of the cross. The subsequent penalty was converted by Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer himself.

Frank Lampard then hit the top center goal. Substitute for Ribery Ivica Olić fails on the following penalty kick to Čech, so Ashley Cole was able to equalize.

The fifth penalty for FC Bayern was taken by Bastian Schweinsteiger; Čech steered the ball to the right post. Drogba, who took the final penalty, was able to place the ball in the left corner of the goal while Neuer jumped to the right side of the goal. The penalty shoot-out ended 3: 4 in favor of Chelsea.

Tactical behavior

Due to the suspended defensive players, FC Bayern switched from the usual 4-3-3 formation to a 4-2-3-1. Many defenders were also missing from Chelsea. Di Matteo decided to position his remaining defensive regulars on the left so that Bayern's advances could be minimized. Most of the attacks by Chelsea took place on the right side. There they were usually thwarted by Diego Contento , so that Di Matteo's idea for the offensive failed. Drogba was mostly covered by Jérôme Boateng and Anatolij Tymoschtschuk and could thus mostly be taken out of the game. Initially, in addition to Drogba, two other players acted offensively, Kalou and Mata; However, Mata went on the defensive after twenty minutes.

Chelsea's tactics, however, were predominantly disciplined and defensive: with basically two back four from the 20th minute of the game, the rear one always standing in front of its own penalty area and the second just before it. The Chelsea players didn't put any pressure on the ball, so Bayern had an easy game up to the penalty area . This allowed FC Bayern to gain continuous possession of the ball without being able to direct greater danger in front of the opposing goal. With changing passes, tempo dribbles or risky final passes, attempts were unsuccessful to crack Chelsea's defensive bulwark. Mario Gómez, the only direct ball collector from FC Bayern, was always taken under cover in the opposing penalty area . This allowed Chelsea to push the opponent onto the wings without having to fear the following crosses. This is an explanation of how the final corner ratio of 20: 1 came about. When the goal was conceded, Gómez was doubled according to the coach's instructions, but the high cross from Kroos reached Müller, who was not seen by the defenders behind the opponent. If FC Bayern came from the outsiders, a Chelsea FC player was there immediately. The London team was able to directly block about half of Bayern's attempts to shoot.

However, the offensive game of FC Bayern could not be completely overridden. Since Robben often switched to the left, he and Ribéry were able to create outnumbered situations on this side and get into the opponent's penalty area through double passes or hole passes. Due to a lack of space, the Munich team played the game relatively slowly until the 75th minute and then had a high rate of false passes. The Londoners started the counterattack with a maximum of four players, so they had no trouble regaining their defensive position immediately if they lost the ball. In addition, they made effective pressing difficult for Bayern due to their ball security . In the equalization, the Munich defenders were on Drogba, but could not do anything against his enormous force. In extra time Ribéry tried again and again to increase the pressure with 1: 1 situations, which also brought out the penalty.

Game dates

The following table shows the main events and dates of the 2012 UEFA Champions League final:

FC Bayern		Chelsea FC		Lineup
	final May 19, 2012 in Munich ( Allianz Arena ) Result: 1: 1 n.v. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 4 i. E. Spectators: 62,500 (sold out) Referee: Pedro Proença ( Portugal )
	Manuel Neuer - Philipp Lahm , Anatolij Tymoschtschuk , Jérôme Boateng , Diego Contento - Toni Kroos , Bastian Schweinsteiger - Arjen Robben , Thomas Müller (87th Daniel Van Buyten ), Franck Ribéry (96th Ivica Olić ) - Mario Gómez Trainer: Jupp Heynckes	Petr Čech - Ashley Cole , David Luiz , Gary Cahill , José Bosingwa - Frank Lampard , John Obi Mikel - Salomon Kalou (84th Fernando Torres ), Juan Mata , Ryan Bertrand (73rd Florent Malouda ) - Didier Drogba Trainer: Roberto Di Matteo ( Italy )
	1: 0 Thomas Müller (83.)	1: 1 Didier Drogba (88.)
	penalties shoot
	1: 0 Philipp Lahm 2: 0 Mario Gómez 3: 1 Manuel Neuer Ivica Olić Bastian Schweinsteiger	Juan Mata 2: 1 David Luiz 3: 2 Frank Lampard 3: 3 Ashley Cole 3: 4 Didier Drogba
	Bastian Schweinsteiger (2nd)	Ashley Cole (81.), David Luiz (86.), Didier Drogba (93.), Fernando Torres (120.)
	Čech saves Robben's penalty kick (95.)
	Player of the Match: Didier Drogba (Chelsea FC)

Award ceremony

Chelsea FC receives the Champions League trophy

Immediately after the game, the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League awards ceremony took place. Federal President Joachim Gauck was also present. Michel Platini , President of UEFA, presented the trophy to Chelsea after receiving the medal . FC Bayern was previously awarded the silver medal. It attracted attention in the press that Bastian Schweinsteiger ignored Gauck's offered handshake , for which he later apologized and said in a statement that he had not noticed. Jupp Heynckes also passed the podium ignoring the Federal President.

Television broadcast

The G8 heads of government during the broadcast of the final (penalty shoot-out)

The global television signal for the 2012 Champions League final was created by Sky Deutschland and broadcast in SD , HD and 3D in over 200 countries . The soccer game was broadcast live on German free TV by the private broadcaster Sat.1 . Overall, the station recorded ratings of up to 20.38 million viewers during the penalty shoot-out. 70.1% of the under-50s watched the game, which has been a record for the TV channel since it started broadcasting. In Austria, the public broadcaster ORF eins broadcast the event and recorded almost one million viewers. In Switzerland, the game was broadcast by SRF two . UEFA estimated the number of viewers worldwide to be 300 million.

In public viewings in the Olympic Stadium and on the Theresienwiese , 65,000 and 30,000 football fans respectively saw the broadcast in Munich.

Reactions

Experts and players

Immediately after the game, coach Jupp Heynckes concluded that you had to use your chances “against such a team”. Opposing coach Di Matteo replied with a laugh when asked if his game was nice. He said that his team was “just more lucky”.

Joachim Löw , coach of the German national team , saw FC Bayern as a better team and found FC Bayern's defeat unjustified. “Football is brutal sometimes. Of course we are all disappointed and sad for the time being. ” Stefan Effenberg , former team captain of FC Bayern, also saw the defeat of Munich as disappointing, but found the team to blame themselves, because they“ are way too much in the 90 minutes [ge] left ”.

Thomas Müller, Bayern's goalscorer, explained that in the past it was often seen “that in the end the winner doesn't always hold the trophy in his hands. But football is not everything ”. Petr Čech found it remarkable that his team won the title “in a year of all things when [they] were in the league badly”. Regarding Robben's penalty kick, he remarked: "The later a penalty is taken, the sooner a player decides on strength, not technique".

Former soccer player Michael Ballack , who had played for both soccer clubs in his career, concluded that Chelsea deserved such a success "when you summarize the last few years".

Press

In the English press, Chelsea FC's victory naturally met with enthusiasm. Newspapers such as the Sunday Times or the tabloid The Sun also addressed the football rivalry between Germany and England. The Independent referred to Roman Abramovich's investment, "whose huge investment is finally paying off under exciting circumstances." Didier Drogba was also praised. The Sun highlighted him with the alliteration "Didi did it" ( English for "Didi did it"), the Spanish newspaper El Mundo also pointed to Drogba's age.

Arjen Robben was ridiculed for his missed penalty spot in the Daily Mirror and in the Russian newspaper Sowetski Sport , among others , who also pointed out that “of all things , the ex-Chelsea player [...] Roman Abramowitsch [...] had the dream of winning the Champions League ”. The Marca newspaper said that FC Bayern was responsible for the defeat itself.

In the German press the result was mostly viewed as not following the course of the game. Focus wrote that in the final of the Champions League, only “the bare result” counted. Jonas Beckenkamp and Michael König, authors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , called the final in their summary as a bad film . Frieder Pfeiffer from the same newspaper rated the game as incredible:

“A game that should have ended at least 4: 1 [for FC Bayern] ended up on penalties. Lahm met, Neuer held. Gomez scored, Neuer scored, Olic failed, Schweinsteiger failed - the rest was immeasurable incomprehensibility. A miracle that nobody wants to experience. A blue miracle. "

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

The online edition of Der Spiegel not only focused on the game, but also on the entire 2011/12 football season:

“A trauma comes true. Only second in the Bundesliga, only second in the DFB-Pokal - and now that too: In the penalty thriller of the Champions League final, FC Bayern have to admit defeat to FC Chelsea, Schweinsteiger and Olic blundered at the crucial moment. It is the bitter end of a messed up season for Munich. "

- Spiegel Online

Christian Eichler from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also felt that Bayern were the better team. However, he said that the team lost their nerve in the crucial moments.

Effects and aftermath

The Chelsea FC Victory Parade in London

After the official award ceremony in Munich, Chelsea celebrated winning the title one day later in West London with tens of thousands of fans. The players drove on the upper deck of a roofless double-decker bus . The route started at the west entrance of Stamford Bridge , the club's home stadium, crossed King's Road and ended in Parsons Green . The final was Drogba's last competitive appearance for Chelsea, which officially announced his departure on May 22, 2012.

With the victory, Chelsea became the first football club from London to win the Champions League trophy. Roberto Di Matteo, who had already won the FA Cup with Chelsea in 2012 , became the most successful European interim coach in history. By winning the title to Chelsea for could Champions League 2012/13 season qualify despite being in the Premier League in this season only sixth had become. The fourth-placed league competitor Tottenham Hotspur therefore had to be content with qualifying for the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League . After winning the final, interim coach Di Matteo received a two-year contract as head coach at Chelsea.

With the win, Chelsea also qualified for the 2012 UEFA Super Cup , which the club lost to the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League winners , Atlético Madrid , 4-1 at the Stade Louis II in Monaco . The FIFA Club World Cup 2012 , for which Chelsea FC was also eligible to participate by winning the Champions League, the club finished in second place; he had to admit defeat 0-1 to the Corinthians São Paulo in the final on December 16 at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama .

At FC Bayern, the defeat in the final was seen as the club's bitterest defeat, alongside the Champions League final defeat in 1999 by Manchester United , when Bayern conceded two goals in stoppage time and lost 2-1 to their opponents. This means that FC Bayern, which only finished second in the three most important competitions in the 2011/12 season, remained without a title for the second year in a row and thus failed to achieve the club's goals again. The numerous national players of FC Bayern had to be rebuilt in the subsequent DFB training camp for the 2012 European Football Championship . The defeat was one of the reasons why sporting director Christian Nerlinger was given leave of absence on July 2, 2012, who later stated in an interview that “he [knew] the moment we lost the Champions League final to Chelsea that it was is over for me ”.

In the following season, the reigning Champions League winner, Chelsea FC, was eliminated from the Champions League in third place in the group stage for the first time, which quickly led to Di Matteo's dismissal, but was still qualified for the UEFA Europa League . There the team under Rafa Benítez was able to prevail against every opponent and stood against Benfica Lisbon in the final, which was played on May 15, 2013 in the Amsterdam Arena . The team won this 2-1 in stoppage time. Thus, alongside FC Bayern, Ajax Amsterdam and Juventus Turin, FC Chelsea is one of four teams that have won the Europa League, the Champions League and the European Cup Winners' Cup . With their victory on May 15, 2013, the team was also the first team to be both reigning champions of the Europa League and the Champions League for ten days.

FC Bayern strengthened themselves for the new season with some players such as Mario Mandžukić and Javi Martínez . It was already clear in January 2013 that Jupp Heynckes would end his job at FC Bayern in the summer of 2013 and that the Spaniard Pep Guardiola would be his successor. Bayern won the German championship with a 25 point lead over Borussia Dortmund. Jupp Heynckes' team reached the Champions League final again , this time against league rivals Borussia Dortmund . The game was won 2-1; with it, FC Bayern won the Champions League title again after 12 years. Bayern Munich had played a Champions League final for the third time in four years. A week after the Champions League victory, the final of the DFB Cup was also won 3-2 against VfB Stuttgart , so that Bayern won the triple . With the Champions League victory, the team entered the European Supercup and met again in August 2013 against Chelsea FC, the winner of the Europa League, now trained by the Portuguese José Mourinho . The pairing went back to penalties, which this time ended with a win for Munich.

Web links

Commons : UEFA Champions League Final 2012  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• UEFA website for the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

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