Soccer - European Champions League: Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben nets winner 2 against Borussia Dortmund 1 - by Daniel Taylor

Matchmaker Arjen Robben

It was a night of outstanding drama, fully reaffirming everything that has been said and written about the illuminating standards of German football, and when it was all done Bayern Munich had moved alongside Liverpool with their fifth European Cup and the Borussia Dortmund players were on their knees.

Jürgen Klopp's players had been quick to the ball, strong in the tackle, and utterly determined to show they should not feel inferior in any sense.

They played with drive and ambition and what a terrible pity it would be now if a side with this drive and ambition is now to be broken up.

Yet this is some Bayern team and the Bundesliga champions had been the more dangerous side when the goals arrived in the second half, culminating in that moment after 89 minutes when Arjen Robben (Dutch National Soccer Player) ran on to Franck Ribéry's half-blocked back-heel and clipped in the late, decisive winner.

They had taken the lead just before the hour when Robben set up Mario Mandzukic but Dortmund, so dignified in defeat, will probably always wonder what might have happened if Dante had been sent off for the challenge that gave Ilkay Gundogan the chance to equalise from the penalty spot.

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