The great UEFA Champions
League matches
CHAMPIONS
LEAGUE
IFK Göteborg v Bayern München
Quarter-final, 2nd leg: 15 March 1995
The scene was set for a cracker of a
game. Roger Gustafsson's IFK Göteborg
had surprisingly topped Group A, ahead
of FC Barcelona, Manchester United and
Galatasaray SK and had won all three of
their home games. FC Bayern München
had stumbled through group B with two
wins in six games and, hit by an injury list
which included Lotthar Matthaus, Jean-
Pierre Papin and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn,
had been held to a goal-less draw in the
first leg at the Olympic Stadium.
A capacity crowd of 36,525 packed into
the Ullevi stadium, dreaming of a semi
final place and their hopes were dramati
cally raised when Bayern's second-string
goalkeeper, Sven Scheuer, was dismis
sed in the 20th minute for a 'professional
foul'on goal-bound Mikael Martinsson,
prompting, Giovanni Trapatoni to pull off
Bulgarian striker Emil Kostadinov in order
to send on the Amateur team goalkeeper,
Uwe Gospodarek.
Martinsson and Stefan Pettersson both
missed clear chances on a night when
only 5 of the Swedish club's 18 shots
were on target. Bayern hung on till the
interval and Giovanni Trapattoni made full
use of the break to fine-tune his shrewd
counter-attacking response to numerical
inferiority. A quarter of an hour into the
second half, he replaced striker Marcel
Witeczek with the lively Markus Schupp
and within two minutes he reaped the
harvest Alexander Zickler's shot scraped
past Thomas Ravelli's finger-tips, into the
corner of the net.
Midfielder Christian Nerlinger latched on
to a clearance to hit the ball high into the
net nine minutes later and, with two away
goals in the bag, Bayern looked home
and dry.
Göteborg, however, refused to throw in
the towel. Mats Lilienberg made it 1-2
two minutes after replacing Mikael Nillson
and, with the crowd at full volume, Mikael
Martinsson made it 2-2. But IFK needed
another goal and only goals remained.
Bayern scraped through by the skin of
their teeth, buth the Göteborg players
- with Thomas Ravelli at the forefront -
gave a lesson in Fair Play by giving the
visitors full credit for their ten-man triumph.
The Bayern players, some were wearing IFK
Göteborg shirts, celebrate the 2-2 draw and semi
final place. From left to right: "Sammy" Kuffour,
Christian Ziege, Markus Schupp, Uwe Gospodarek,
Markus Babbel and Mehmet Scholl.
PHOTO: BONGARTS
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