BERLIN Hydro Flask Coffee 16 Oz Flamingo , Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- To fulfill big dreams in football, patience is vital. That' s the story behind Bayern Munich' s narrow 1-0 victory in the Champions League opener against the English champions Manchester City on Wednesday night.
The winner was scored by defender Jerome Boateng in the 90th minute. It was his first Champions League goal. Despite huge injury problems, Bayern was the more efficient of probably the two strongest teams in Group E. For the initial stage of this season' s campaign, Bayern' s aim appears to be that of surviving the group without unnecessarily putting their nerves to the test.
Against City, Bayern started in front of a crowd of 68,000 fans with a back line of three with newcomer Mehdi Benatia, Jerome Boateng and David Alaba. In front of them was row of four with Rafinha, Philipp Lahm, Xabi Alonso and Juan Bernat.
Rafinha and Bernat were to fall back whenever City attacked to form a five-man defensive line. Austrian-born Alaba and the Spaniard Bernat soon changed positions on the left and Alaba drove Bayern' s game forward in support of the right winger Thomas Mueller, center forward Robert Lewandowski and left winger Mario Goetze.
Alonso duly reverted back to a position immediately in front of Bayern' s defense and had a vital role to play in his third appearance for the club.
While both teams playing keep ball, Bayern' s tactics were to get behind Manchester' s defense and it worked rather well, but Mueller, Goetze, Alaba, Robben and Lewandowski all missed good chances as did Edin Dzeko for Manchester when not hitting the target with two headers.
Manchester rarely found space for attacking forays as Bayern was the dominant team with over 60 percent of possession after Guardiola made some successful tactical changes. From the back row of three he went for the back row of four. Beginning with a 3-4-3 system Bayern ended up with a 4-1-2-3 system, gaining more game control and offensive power. Bayern additionally had 20 shots on goal to their opponent' s eight.
Bayern won its eleventh consecutive Champions League opener despite missing far too many chances in the 90 minutes as Manchester keeper Joe Hart made some great saves despite missing a number of crosses.
The big question now is, how long can Bayern survive without its strongest line up? Bayern coach Pep Guardiola has to come up with some ideas in the next games against Moscow and Rome and before the start of the round of the last 16 in February.
Against Manchester, his answers were spot on despite the fact that he had to change his line-up once again. But Guardiola and Bayern proved they can get along with their problems. Reason enough for the Germans to feel some relief for the moment after having won the all-important opener.
Guardiola will have to wait a while before some of his stars are able to return to duty. Sources close to the club told Xinhua that French forward Franck Ribery will be out for quite a while due to an injured patella tendon. Last week Ribery had to discontinue training because of his knee problems. "It is a difficult injury, we don't know how long he will be out," said Bayern' s Director of Football Matthias Sammer.
Arjen Robben was not in the starting eleven for the game against Manchester City. Bayern coach Pep Guardiola didn' t want to take any unnecessary risks as the Dutch striker was only able to complete a single training session last week due to his ankle problems.
Robben was sent on the pitch against the English champions for the last 20 minutes. Guardiola can' t afford any more serious injuries within his squad as Javier Martinez, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thiago Alcantara and Holger Badstuber are on the long-term-injury list already.
To order Rafinha into the starting line-up seemed to be risky enough as the Brazilian defender was out for many weeks. His last game was back in the German Cup final last May.
Talking about new faces, Moroccan Benatia made his debut for Bayern after being transferred recently from the Italian side AS Roma for about 30 million euro.
SYDNEY， Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Scores of Sydneysiders took to the city's famous beaches and streets throughout the day in line with a global campaign to eliminate violence against women.
From the white sands of Sydney's Northern and Eastern beaches to its suburbs such as Castle Hill and Lakemba， participants of the mass walks put on white ribbons and T-shirts to show their support for the movement.
This year， "White Ribbon Day" in Australia is "asking men to stand up， speak out and act for the women in their lives， as violence against women is a man's issue too，" according to organizers.
Nov. 25 is also the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is a "consequence of discrimination against women， in law and also in practice， and of persisting inequalities between men and women，" according to the United Nations.
It is a "global pandemic，" but violence against women and girls" is not inevitable. Prevention is possible and essential."
The UN has pushed the public and private sector to support the date as a global event to advocate for gender equality， building on the international resolution adopted from its Beijing Declaration two decades ago.
On average， one woman is killed every week as a result of domestic violence in Australia， according to White Ribbon， the country's male-led violence prevention campaign that is part of the global movement.
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