Bayern secure Super Cup final glory in Budapest – photo gallery, videos

Javi Martinez’s extra-time header proved the difference in the Puskás Aréna on Thursday after his Bayern teammate Leon Goretzka had cancelled out Lucas Campos’ 13th minute penalty as Bayern Munich defeated Sevilla 2-1 to lift the European Super Cup for the second time in their history.

Despite the new season having only just started, Bayern were already in fine form, fresh as they were from an 8-0 demolition of FC Schalke 04 in their opening Bundesliga fixture last weekend. Sevilla haven’t started their La Liga campaign yet and certainly they looked half a step behind their German opponents in the opening exchanges, the 2020 Champions League winners creating the first chance through Goretzka’s pass out to the right for Serge Gnabry to latch on to, but he

could only shoot tamely into Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou’s arms.

The six-time UEFA Europa Liga winners soon shrugged off their early lethargy though and started to make inroads into the Bayern half, which were rewarded earlier than they could perhaps have realistically hoped.

Lucas Ocampos headed down Jesús Navas’s right-wing cross for Ivan Rakitic to surge through, but he was shoved over by David Alaba, a foul which saw Ocampos stride up to the spot and send Manuel Neuer the wrong way whilst stroking the ball

into the bottom-left corner of the Bayern net.

That was Bayern’s cue to wrest back control of the first half, a position they didn’t relinquish again before half-time.

The first clear evidence of the new champions of Europe’s domination came in the 23rd minute when Műller found himself in a fantastic position a matter of metres from goal but inexplicably slid Lewandowski’s fine cross wide of the far left post, before Pavard shot high and wide when well placed on the right of the

Sevilla penalty area six minutes later.

Lewandowski then streaked clear on goal a minute after the half-hour mark but Bounou stood up well and proved equal to the Polish striker’s clipped effort straight at him. Bayern’s pressure was unrelenting and it finally told on an over-worked Sevilla defence in the 34th minute, Lewandowski smartly laying back Müller’s right-wing cross first-time for Goretzka to equalise by placing a firm volley past Bounou’s right hand and into the right side of his goal.

Sevilla were on the ropes but made it to half-time without any further concessions, at which point they clearly regrouped and reorganised, for it was they who started the second half in a more aggressive attacking style, Niklas Süle – admittedly under heavy pressure from de Jong – forcing an excellent, low save from his own goalkeeper inside his near, right post when he inadvertently stabbed the ball goalwards from Sergio Escudero’s cross.

As we’ve come to expect from Hansi Flick’s Bayern side, they weren’t caught on the hop for long and soon re-established their authority, nearly taking the lead from a flowing move in the 52nd minute which ended with Lewandowski poking the ball into the Sevilla net,

only for the video assistance referral system to rule the goal out for an earlier offside.

This second period was a more even contest than the first and indeed it became a rather attritional affair for the next 20 minutes until Bayern again increased the tempo and created yet more chances, Gnabry’s cut-back in the 76th minute flying towards Lewandowski, only for desperate defending to divert the ball for a corner, from which Lucas Hernandez volleyed low and just wide of the right post.