Bayern Munich was back in Frauen-Bundesliga action on Sunday in a home match against Carl Zeiss Jena.
The football match was overshadowed by the somber news that Bayern keeper Maria-Luisa Grohs has been diagnosed with a malignant tumor. This is a time for her teammates anda ll the FC Bayern family to rally around her. And today, they honored her on the field with a spectacular 5-0 victory.
Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir got the scoring started in the 19th minute after latching on to an excellent Georgia Stanway cross. Ten minutes later Klara Bühl received a similar cross in a similar area from Linda Dallmann, took a deft controlling touch, and turned to fire home for Bayern’s second.
The goals and pressure continued without abatement — Bayern registered 28 shots, 10 on target by the time all was said and done. But the Bavarians would not finally score again until late, when Lea Schüller pounced on an errant back-pass to put the game to bed in the 80th minute. From there the floodgates opened: Jovana Damnjanović hit a wonderful curler from outside the box on 82’, and Schüller collected her brace after a post-corner scramble in front of goal in stoppage time.
The Bavarians remain third in the table, eight behind on goal difference to Eintracht Frankfurt and two points behind league leaders Wolfsburg.
Bayern returns to Champions League action on Thursday with a trip to face Vålerenga in Norway.
