Champions League 2009-10 season: Bordeaux leave Bayern on the edge

2009/11/05

MUNICH: Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh's late goal sealed a 2-0 win at Bayern Munich to put the French side into the Champions League's knockout stages and effectively knock the Germans out. After midfielder Yoann Gourcuff scored with a first-half header, Chamakh took advantage of a mistake by Bayern goalkeeper Hans-Joerg Butt to slot the second goal on the verge of injury-time.

"I should have been there for the first goal -- it was my fault -- then we weren't given a clear penalty and (striker) Luca Toni missed two chances to score," admitted captain Mark van Bommel after Bayern suffered their first home defeat in Europe for five years.

"We tried everything in the second-half, but the ball wouldn't go in. We didn't play badly, we were better than them after the break, but it was hard out there."

The French league leaders left Bavaria with three precious points while Bayern's dreams of reaching the next phase are all but over after the defeat.

"We didn't have much luck, in such an important game it was important to score and we didn't," said Bayern coach Louis van Gaal.

Marouane Chamakh (right) scored a late second for Bordeaux.

"We have to keep working, we should have had a penalty, but we didn't play our best game."

With two games left -- at Juventus and home to Maccabi Haifa -- remaining in the group stages, Bayern now need a miracle to qualify as the defeat leaves them third in the table six points behind leaders Bordeaux and four behind Juventus.

But Bordeaux are now in the knockout phases even before Juventus visit the Stade Chaban-Delmas at the end of the month while facing a trip to Israel Maccabi Haifa next month.

After a slow start, Bayern had several clear chances to take the lead mid-way through the first-half, but were denied both by French goalkeeper Cedric Carrasso and bad fortune. -- AFP