Guardiola: Bayern Were Not flawless

Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring a goal.

“We’re not going to lift our feet up, and you can see that right through our team”.

Bayern Munich proved to be too strong for Olympiakos, as they romped to a 4-0 win at the Allianz Arena.

It always looked like a case of when rather than whether Bayern would qualify from Group F. “We want to score as early as possible”, declared coach Josep Guardiola prior to the Olympiacos match, and early goals are exactly what his players delivered. Arsenal is third, three points behind Olympiakos with nine.

“Schalke’s five-man defense made it hard, they were quick in central defense, but we did it and I have to compliment my players for their work”, said the Spaniard, whose team are eyeing a record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title.

Their defeat against Bayern is their only loss in their last 23 fixtures in all competitions, but they are not expected to trouble the hosts. Except Schalke’s last season 2 drawn they have lost their last 8 consecutive match against most 32 times league champion.

In turn, that means that Arsene Wenger will take his men to Greece next month knowing that they can still leapfrog their rivals and finish second in the group to join Bayern in advancing.

These teams sit on top of their group’s standings, so we know we’re in for quite the match today. With just over 20 minutes remaining, Coman got the goal his earlier play merited when bravely charging in ahead of Roberto to meet Müller’s flick on and head the ball past the stranded goalkeeper.

The other game in Group G saw Dynamo Kiev win 2-0 at Porto with Andriy Yarmolenko netting a first-half penalty before Derlis Gonzalez wrapped up the points.

Gary Cahill had put the visitors up in the 20th minute.

In Group H, Lyon missed the chance to have a shot at qualification by losing 2-1 to Gent after group-leading Zenit St Petersburg had beaten Valencia 2-0. In their Schalke scored 101 goals.

Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says the club distances itself “in every form from these so-called supporters of our club”. Sure enough, not long after, Danijel Milicevic scored with a smartly taken free kick to equalize for the Belgian side.

Sammer said he disagreed with Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson’s decision to show Badstuber a straight red for bringing down Nigeria global Brown Ideye, who was through on goal with 53 minutes gone.