Julian Nagelsmann, who has won his first league title at the age of 34, has a huge glass of wheat beer dumped over his head. It’s going to be an extremely good night in Munich.
That’s it from me, but we’ll have a match report shortly. Thanks for your company and emails - goodnight!
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A reminder of Jonathan Liew’s piece on whether Bayern - or any team - winning 10 titles in a row is a good thing.
BAYERN MUNICH ARE CHAMPIONS OF GERMANY!
Full time: Bayern Munich 3-1 Borussia Dortmund That’s it! Bayern have won their tenth consecutive Bundesliga title and their 31st in all. Serge Gnabry, Robert Lewandowski and the substitute Jamal Musiala got the goals - Gnabry’s was a belter - and though Dortmund were much better in the second half, it was always like to end this way. Bayern are just too good for the rest of Germany.
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90+3 min A tactical substitution, the tactic being to allow Robert Lewandowski and Joshua Kimmich an ovation. They are replaced by Eric Choupo-Moting and Niklas Sule.
90 min Four minutes of added time.
87 min Two changes for Dortmund. The disappointing Erling Haaland and Marius Wolf are replaced by Youssoufa Moukoko and Felix Passlack.
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GOAL! Bayern Munich 3-1 Dortmund (Musiala 83)
Jamal Musiala seals the title for Bayern! He had one shot saved by Hitz after a fine run, but the ball eventually came back to him and he smacked it into the corner from six yards.
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82 min A double change for Bayern: Marcel Sabitzer and Leroy Sane replace Muller and Coman.
81 min: Chance for Haaland! Wolf curls a long cross around the Bayern defence towards Haaland, who hooks the bouncing ball over the bar from 12 yards. That was an excellent chance, even if the bounce was slightly awkward.
80 min: Just wide from Haaland! Bynoe-Gittens screws a very clever pass behind Upamecano for Haaland, who marches onto it and hits a shot that deflects off the stretching Upamecano and spins just wide.
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78 min Bayern keep possession for a couple of minutes. They are 12 minutes plus added time away from another title.
75 min Musiala beats two players superbly on the right, but the covering Bellingham does really well to stretch and concede a corner.
74 min Upamecano has dealt very well with Haaland tonight.
72 min A promising Dortmund break is ruined by an unusually poor touch from Reus.
69 min: Great save! Muller’s shot hits Can and deflects to Lewandowski, whose close-range shot is brilliantly saved by Hitz!
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69 min A bit of a quiet spell in the game.
67 min A change for Dortmund: Reinier is replaced by the young Englishman Jamie Bynoe-Gittens.
65 min Muller passes up a very good shooting opportunity, instead trying to find Lewandowski with a chip that is headed away.
63 min A change for Bayern: Jamal Musiala replaces Serge Gnabry, who scored a spectacular opening goal.
62 min Hitz comes for a corner, punching the ball and Lucas Hernandez’s face at the same time. Hernandez is down and looks quite groggy.
61 min Lewandowski’s low cross is turned just wide of his own goal by Zagadou. Meanwhile, there was no handball by Guerreiro in that earlier incident.
61 min Now Bayern appeal for a penalty when Gnabry’s cross hits the falling Guerreiro. I don’t think it hit his hands, though that will also be checked.
60 min: VAR check for a Dortmund penalty. It was Pavard on Bellingham near the byline. He missed the ball but then got it in his follow through, and VAR decide no penalty. I’d like to see that again.
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58 min Lewandowski misses a half chance, shooting wide of the far post after dancing past Zagadou on the right side of the area.
57 min This has been an admirable, proud response from Dortmund in the second half.
55 min: Great tackle from Hernandez! Zagadou’s clearance turns into a useful pass for Haaland, who finds himself one v one with Upamecano. He doesn’t fancy that so waits for support and plays a lovely pass through to Reus, whose shot on the run is superbly blocked by the sliding Hernandez.
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54 min: Neuer saves from Reus! Haaland picked up a loose ball 30 yards out, ran at the Bayern defence and flicked a pass through to Reus. It was fractionally overhit, forcing Reus wide, and he tried to screw the ball across the six-yard box from a tight angle. Neuer threw himself in front of Reus and blocked it with his legs.
53 min Gnabry’s outswinging cross is headed across goal and wide by Coman, 15 yards out.
GOAL! Bayern 2-1 Dortmund (Can 52 pen)
After a long delay, Emre Can calmly sends Neuer the wrong way.
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PENALTY TO DORTMUND! Kimmich is penalised for a naive tackle on Reus, who saw it coming and shielded the ball so that Kimmich would foul him. Dortmund have a chance to get back into it.
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49 min Pavard gets away with a very bad tackle on Brandt. Had the referee given a foul, he would surely have booked Pavard.
46 min Peep peep! Bayern begin the second half.
Half time: Bayern 2-0 Dortmund
Bayern are cruising towards their 10th consecutive title. Serge Gnabry’s glorious volley put them ahead before Robert Lewandowski did the usual in the 34th minute. Dortmund started well but faded fast, and the scoreline doesn’t flatter Bayern.
“Was the Can aggro classifiable under ‘We don’t like to see that sort of thing but wish there was more of it?’” asks Ian Copestake.
Not really; it was more posturing than the S-word.
44 min Lewandowski drags a shot just wide from 20 yards. Bayern are in total control of this game.
42 min This will be Bayern’s 31st Bundesliga title. No other team has won more than five.
41 min Kimmich’s floated free-kick is headed away by Goretzka, a pretty decent chance to make it 3-0.
40 min There’s a bit of aggro involving Goretzka and some of the Dortmund players, Can in particular. Can is booked, as is the Dortmund coach Marco Rose.
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36 min That’s Lewandowski’s 27th goal in 26 games against his old club.
35 min It wasn’t actually the cleanest finish from Lewandowski - he scuffed it slightly with his left foot and it went through the legs of Hitz.
GOAL! Bayern 2-0 Dortmund (Lewandowski 34)
It’s 2-0 this time! Zagadou’s rubbish pass out of defence was intercepted by Kimmich, who poked it forward to Muller. He slid it through to Lewandowski, and you know the rest.
32 min Jude Bellingham is having a good game. The extent of his influence - in this game, in central midfield - is outrageous for an 18-year-old.
DISALLOWED GOAL! Bayern 1-0 Dortmund
Serge Gnabry taps into an empty net, but the goal is ruled out for a Spandex-tight offside against Kingsley Coman in the build-up.
27 min: Chance for Dortmund! Haaland eases Upamecano away from a high ball, which allows it to run on to Brandt. He slides it through to Haaland, who shoots tamely wide from 15 yards. He had to take it early, with Hernandez coming across, but it was still a decent chance.
27 min Guerreiro’s dangerous low cross just evades Haaland and then runs out of play before Brandt can cut it back.
26 min Haaland has barely had a kick, though this isn’t necessarily a problem given his modus operandi.
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23 min Goretzka’s long pass just evades Coman, who got behind the Dortmund defence.
20 min This is an excellent spell for Bayern, who are threatening to overwhelm Dortmund.
18 min Another chance for Bayern. Coman has two opportunities to release Gnabry (I think) to his left, but each time he passes too close to Wolf.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-0 Borussia Dortmund (Gnabry 15)
Pick that out! A Bayern corner was headed to the edge of the area, where Gnabry controlled the ball nonchalantly on the thigh and laced a volley past Hitz. That’s a storming goal!
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15 min Gnabry plays a beautiful one-two with Goretzka, forcing Guerreiro to make an important sliding challenge in the area.
13 min Coman tries to cushion Pavard’s cross towards Gnabry on the volley, but his touch is too heavy and the ball goes behind.
12 min Marco Rose will be pleased with Dortmund’s performance so far, although it feels like this often happens in this fixture: Dortmund start well, Bayern score, the end.
9 min Bellingham whistles a first-time shot from distance that hits a Bayern defender. He caught that well.
8 min “The Cook Islands are in Europe?” sniffs Joe Pearson. “Information for life! Thanks, Rob!”
Yep, one of the six big leagues.
6 min The TV commentary in the UK is a second or two ahead of the pictures, which is starting to give me a headache.
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5 min Bellingham just overhits a through ball to Haaland, who made a terrific run down the middle.
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3 min A decent start from Dortmund, who have had most of the ball in the early exchanges. Both teams are playing 4-2-3-1.
1 min Peep peep! Erling Haaland gets this mighty match under way.
Here come the players. There’s a cracking atmosphere at the Allianz Arena; of course there is.
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No club has won 10 titles in a row in one of the big European leagues. The closest is nine by Bayern from 2013-21, Juventus in Italy from 2012-20 and Titikaveka in the Cook Islands from 1971-79.
A reminder of the teams
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1) Neuer; Pavard, Upamecano, Hernandez, Davies; Kimmich, Goretzka; Gnabry, Muller, Coman; Lewandowski.
Substitutes: Ulreich, Sule, Sane, Choupo-Moting, Sabitzer, Roca, Nianzou, Musiala, Stanisic.
Borussia Dortmund (possible 4-2-3-1) Hitz; Wolf, Akanji, Zagadou, Guerreiro; Can, Bellingham; Brandt, Reus, Reinier; Haaland.
Substitutes: Burki, Schulz, Moukoko, Passlack, Pongracic, Rothe, Semic, Bynoe-Gittens, Papadopoulos.
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The best-ever #DerKlassiker goal was scored by _____ 😍 pic.twitter.com/nrfuGiyQlS
— Bundesliga English (@Bundesliga_EN) April 23, 2022
Despite their domestic dominance, Bayern are out of the Champions League.
Phosphate for thought
Team news
Our Klassiker XI 🔥🔴#MISS10N #packmas #FCBBVB pic.twitter.com/MxzTRCJL6y
— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) April 23, 2022
🚨 BVB STARTING XI VS. FC BAYERN 🚨 pic.twitter.com/v104GFrkYw
— Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) April 23, 2022
Preamble
Jurgen Klopp’s all-time-greatness becomes more obvious by the week. Not just in England, where he has defied the laws of net spend to produce the worthiest adversaries Manchester City will ever have, but in Germany too. Klopp is still the last manager to stop Bayern Munich winning the Bundesliga, a status he could hold for a while yet.
Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund won the title in 2011 and 2012. Since then it’s been all Bayern, and today they can clinch a tenth successive title. Fittingly, cruelly or schadenfreudely, depending on your perspective, their opponents are Borussia Dortmund.
A draw would satisfy everyone except the mathematicians, such is Bayern’s goal difference superiority, but to be confirmed as champions they need to beat Dortmund. It’s been a relatively disappointing season for Bayern - Villarreal and all that - but beating their biggest rivals to clinch a tenth straight title would assuage their Champions League pain.
Kick off 5.30pm BST, 6.30pm in Munich.
