DORTMUND: Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann shrugged off his first defeat in charge of the German giants when his team were beaten 2-1 in a pre-season match by Borussia Dortmund.

A crowd of 50,000 came to Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park on Wednesday to see Borussia claim revenge for last season's German Cup defeat at the hands of Bayern as they raced into a 2-0 half-time lead.

Goals by Jakub Blaszczykowski and Tamas Hajnal gave Borussia victory as they won their own T-Home SuperCup.

But Klinsmann, who succeeded Ottmar Hitzfeld as Bayern coach on July 1, was unconcerned even though it was a near-full strength Bayern side which was beaten and only injured Frenchman Franck Ribery was missing.

"It was mostly a decent performance and an entertaining game," said former Germany boss Klinsmann.
"We had our chances in the first half of scoring one or two goals. Dortmund took the lead and that made things hard for us.

"We trained hard on the morning of the match, but the team held back during the game.

"It is much too early in the season to read too much into the result."

His opposite number Jurgen Klopp, also in charge for the first time after succeeding Thomas Doll, was delighted to have beaten the defending German champions.

"The team played well," said Klopp, who is predicting a different result when the sides meet on the second weekend of the new Bundesliga season on Aug 23.

"We got what we wanted, but people shouldn't draw the wrong conclusion from this game." -- AFP