(Nedved 31', Salas 42') (Muller 70', Gomez 85')
A stirring late comeback saw the German giants Bayern haul themselves back into a tie that appeared at half time to be getting away from them.
Bayern had actually started the brighter of the two sides but Lazio showed how dangerous they could be on 20 minutes when they launched a counter attack and their mercurial playmaker Juan Sebastian Veron put Roberto Mancini clean through. Neuer saved well.
Eleven minutes later however, and Neuer was left rooted to the spot as Pavel Nedved guided a header from Marcelo Salas's whipped cross into the top corner of the Bayern goal. Bayern nearly equalised from a Manzukic shot on 38 minutes but conceded again right on half time when Marcelo Salas slid the ball under Neuer having rolled around Dante's tight marking and onto a neat Nedved pass inside the box.
In the dressing room the Germans perhaps took comfort from the fact the shot tally in the first half had been level and possession slightly in their favour but it seemed that luck had deserted them when on 57 minutes Muller was put in by Javi Martinez only to slide his shot across the face of goal and worse was to follow on the hour when Alaba was clearly hauled down inside the box without a penalty being given.
Mario Gomez came on as the Germans threw everything forward. The tall striker was immediately onto a cross but his header looped wide. Then came the goal that pulled them back into things on seventy minutes. Muller, the master predator seized on a blocked clearance and blasted the ball past Marchegiani. Going back to Munich only 1 goal down and with the away goal in hand might have seemed a good return but Bayern continued to press and on eighty five minutes got their second to stun the Olympico crowd. Gomez again towered over his markers to send a bullet header goalwards. Although Marchegiani clawed it out he could do nothing to prevent Gomez bundling home the rebound.
2-2 and with all the momentum, Bayern may not have welcomed the final whistle but they will feel confident of ending the Italian threat at home. Lazio must regroup and focus on what worked in the first half. With Salas, Veron and Nedved, goals will always be possible.
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