Kult & Punk: St Pauli suffer Bavarian misery.

The match out of the way, the boys are heading to the bars of Munich. That is all you can really say about it all.


Bayern Munich 3 St Pauli 0

Bayern München beat FC St. Pauli 3-0 to move a small step closer to their new stated goal of direct qualification for the Champions League


The visitors held their own for much of the match, but eventually came unstuck after their goalkeeper was sent off with just over 20 minutes remaining.

End-to-end opening

The first chance of the match fell to Fin Bartels after just three minutes, but the St. Pauli midfielder skied his effort when given a free sight of goal inside the Bayern box. A few minutes later in what was a lively start to the contest, Franck Ribery played in a low ball from the left that Toni Kroos just failed to connect with.

With quarter of an hour played the visitors were more than holding their own, but in the 16th minute Hamit Altintop struck for the record champions. The Turkish international worked a space for himself on the edge of the St. Pauli box before nailing a beauty into the top-right corner.

Chances for St. Pauli

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk blocked a shot from Max Kruse not long after as the Hamburg outfit responded well to the early setback in the period that followed. A goal to the good, the home side tried to stamp their authority on the proceedings but there was little clear sign of them cracking the St. Pauli defence a second time. In fact, it was the guests who ended the first half on the front foot, Marius Ebbers firing just wide in the 42nd minute, although Toni Kroos pulled a good save out of Thomas Kessler with the final chance before the interval.

Four minutes after the restart, St. Pauli should have been level again when Kruse teed up Ebbers at close range, but his shot was blocked on the line by Diego Contento. The half continued in the same vein as the first, with the visitors more than holding their own, in terms of football as well as commitment. The tipping point arrived though in the 68th minute.

All change after Kessler sent off

Kessler hauled down Thomas Müller inside the box and received a straight red card for the professional foul. Philipp Lahm converted from the spot against fresh-on-the-pitch substitute keeper Mathias Hain and St. Pauli suddenly had a mountain to climb. Fin Bartels almost pulled one back shortly after, but with eleven minutes to go Franck Ribery sewed things up with number three, outfoxing Ralph Gunesch and Hain before slipping his first goal of the season into the empty net.

After that, the hosts wound up for a final ten-minute power-play but a combination of stand-in keeper Hain and the aluminium kept the score at 3-0.

Line-ups

FC Bayern: Butt - Lahm, Tymoshchuk, Breno, Contento - van Bommel, Kroos - Altintop, Schweinsteiger, Ribery - Müller

St. Pauli: Kessler � Volz (Bruns 46'), Morena, Oczipka, Rothenbach - Boll (Asamoah 62'), Lehmann - Gunesch, Kruse (Hain 71'), Bartels - Ebbers

Goals: 1-0 Altintop (16'), 2-0 Lahm (72', pen.), 3-0 Ribery (81')

Red card: Kessler (68')

Attendance in the Allianz Arena: 69,000 (sold-out)