Bayern Munich’s Luis Diaz celebrates with the trophy after successful the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup 2025.
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Luis Díaz scored and gained a title on his Bayern Munich debut after a 2-1 win over Stuttgart within the German Supercup.
Harry Kane additionally scored for the Bundesliga champion to win the least essential trophy of the season, opening the scoring within the 18th minute when the ball dropped kindly for him to shoot contained in the left submit.
“To start with a trophy is the most important thing,” Kane stated after successful simply his second profession staff title. The Bundesliga in May was his first.
Bayern dominated the early levels however Stuttgart fought again with Nick Woltemade drawing a superb save from Manuel Neuer.
Woltemade was and presumably nonetheless is a summer season switch goal for Bayern. The golf equipment have thus far been unable to agree on a price regardless of the participant’s openness to the transfer.
“The file is closed,” Stuttgart chief govt Alexander Wehrle stated earlier than the sport.
Díaz joined Bayern from Liverpool final month and stays the membership’s greatest deal of the offseason.
Neuer produced an impressive reflex save to deny Jamie Leweling two minutes earlier than Díaz scored within the 77th when Leweling was receiving off-field remedy after clashing knees with Bayern’s Sacha Boey.
“Undoubtedly painful, but still, and perhaps unpopular, but he needs to feel the pain on the field and not two meters away from it,” Stuttgart coach Sebastian Hoeneß stated.
Leweling recovered and headed Stuttgart’s reply in stoppage time.
It’s the fourth 12 months that German soccer officers have staged what was the normal curtain-raiser for the season on the identical weekend as the primary spherical of the German Cup, forcing the contributors to postpone their cup video games.
Stuttgart begins its title defence at Eintracht Braunschweig on Aug. 26 with Bayern enjoying third-division facet Wehen Wiesbaden the next day.
German Cup video games
Wolfsburg routed fifth-tier SV Hemelingen 9-0 within the first spherical of the German Cup, and different Bundesliga groups additionally loved huge wins over lower-league opposition.
Two-time champion Leipzig twice got here from behind to beat fourth-tier SV Sandhausen 4-2 with new signings Ezechiel Banzuzi and Yan Diomande scoring.
Heidenheim gained at 10-man fourth-tier Bahlinger SC 5-0, Hoffenheim gained at third-division Hansa Rostock 4-0, and Freiburg gained at fourth-tier membership Sportfreunde Lotte 2-0.
Hamburger SV, which clinched its return to the Bundesliga final season, survived a scare at fifth-tier Pirmasens, equalizing late to ship the match to additional time, the place Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer headed the winner for 2-1.
Königsdörffer was enjoying for Hamburg solely as a result of a proposed early August transfer to Nice broke down after his medical test with the French staff.
Bochum additionally wanted a late purpose to degree earlier than prevailing at nine-man Dynamo Berlin 3-1.
St. Pauli wanted penalties to get previous fourth-tier Hamburg rival Eintracht Norderstedt, whereas fourth-tier Bavarian staff FV Illertissen upset Miroslav Klose’s Nuremberg by successful 6-5 on penalties after their sport ended 3-3 with additional time.
Also, second-division facet Darmstadt gained at fourth-tier Lübeck 2-1, and third-division Energie Cottbus gained 1-0 to upset Hannover, which is enjoying within the division above.
Published – August 18, 2025 02:42 am IST
