Bayern Munich’s French star Franck Ribery hit the winner in a 1-0 victory at Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday to put Ottmar Hitzfeld’s team back on top of the German league table.

Werder Bremen’s 2-1 victory against Hamburg the previous day meant Bayern were temporarily ousted from the lead, but bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery earned a 22nd-minute goal and restored their superiority. It was Franck Ribery’s fourth league goal for Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich were happy to sit on their lead and contain Bielefeld, who lie in just 14th spot with one victory in their last 10 matches.

South African striker Sibusiso Zuma of nearly opened the scoring for Bielefeld just before the goal, but the ball hit the post of Bayern Munich goalkeeper and team captain Oliver Kahn.

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The Stade de Gerland is the home pitch of French Ligue champions Olympique Lyonnais, and was the setting for a do-or-die Champions League group stage qualifying match against Spanish La Liga club Barcelona FC. Barcelona were on top of Group of the Champions League with 10 points while Lyon were struggling at the 3rd spot with 6 points, desperate for a positive result if they were to keep alive in the Champions League tournament.

Barcelona was without star strikers Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto’o, and star midfielder Ronaldinho was confined to the Barca bench. However, Barca head coach Frank Rijkaard still had 17-year old football phenom Bojan Krkic, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniseta to lead the Barca attack. Rijkaard’s decision was quickly rewarded on the 3rd minute when Barca forward Andres Iniesta stroked him a fine pass created by Bojan Krkic.

Lyon team captain Juninho Pernambucano scored with a free kick that curled to the far post past the reach of Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes to make the score 1-1.

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Spanish La Liga football club FC Barcelona move closer to qualifying for the First Knock-out round of the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League after posting a 2-0 victory over Scottish Premier League club Rangers FC at the Nou Camp in Barcelona, Spain just recently.

Barcelona established an early lead in the 6th minute of the match when Barac striker Thierry Henry was able to recover a rebound from a Lionel Messi header that bounced off the post. Thierry Henry slid to put the ball in the back of the net, and give Barcelona 1 -0 advantage.

On the 43rd minute, Barca midfielder Ronaldinho was able to dribble through the defense and make a shot on the Rangers goal. Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor blocked Ronaldinho’s shot, but wasn’t able to stop the rebound by Barcelona Argentinian forward Lionel Messi, who scored the second goal for the Blaugrana.

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FC Bayern Munich haven’t won in their last 3 Bundesliga matches.
FC Bayern Munich were held to its second consecutive 0-0 draw in the German Bundesliga. Last week, German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund held the visiting Bayern Munich to a 0-0 draw. Just recently, it was Eintracht Frankfurt who kept Bayern Munich level at 0-0 in the Allianz Arena, FC Bayern’s home pitch.

Bayern Munich had several chances on goal, around 40 in fact, but then none of the attempts on goal could get past Eintracht Frankfurt’s goalkeeper Ola Nikolov. Bayern Munich;s scoring tandem of Luca Toni and Miroslav Klose, who are the top scorers of the German Bundesliga with 8 goals each, had several attempts on the Frankfurt goal, but without much success. At least, it gives a clean sheat to Bayern Munich goalkeeper and team captain Oliver Kahn.
Eventually, the match ended in a 0-0 draw, sharing 1 point each for Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt. Bayern Munich improve their record by one point for a total of 28 points to lead the German Bundesliga. However, a 2-1 win by Hamburg SV over Hertha BSC has improved Hamburg’s Bundesliga standings to 26 points, just 2 shy of Bayern Munich.

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Last season’s Spanish La Liga runner-up FC Barcelona visited the home pitch of German Bundesliga Champions VfB Stuttgart, and embarassed them at their own backyard with a 2-0 win in matchday 2 of the UEFA Champions League group stages.

FC Barcelona made it two UEFA Champions League wins from two games after edging an exhilarating Group E encounter away to VfB Stuttgart thanks to goals from Carles Puyol and Lionel Messi.

Barcelona had an easy 3-0 win against French Ligue 1 champions Olympique Lyonnais in their opening UEFA Champions League group stage fixture, and Barca expected that it was going to toughter against German Bundesliga champions Stuttgart.

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