steaua bucharest has registered a failure at the start of the 2008-2009 edition of the champions league, losing its home game against germany's bayern münchen, score 1-0 (1-0 at half time). the game counted for the first round of group f. van buyten scored the game's sole goal in the 15th minute. ın the 30th minute dayro moreno shook the right-hand bar of rensing's goal post. arthuro shook the woodwork for steaua once more in the 58th minute. bogdan stancu's goal was overruled in the 76th minute, the referee seeing a fault. jürgen klinsmann, the coach of bayern münchen, has stated after the game that he is very pleased with the victory against steaua, but conceded that his team had good luck too. "ı am extremely pleased for winning these points and for starting the champions league on the right footing. ı would have liked to see us score once more in the first half, we should have done it and then we would have had more confidence. we were lucky when steaua shook the woodwork twice. we could have scored faster, with klose coming close to doing that in the 6th minute, and it would have been easier for us", klinsmann stated. ın turn, marius lăcătuş stated that a draw in the game against bayern münchen would have been an adequate representation of how things were on the pitch. "considering the number of goal scoring chances, a draw would have been fair. bayern has more experience and it knew how to take advantage of that, knew when to disrupt the game, when to push, it won the one-on-one duels and has physically dominated us", lăcătuş stated after the game. "ı am upset with the result. we started the game cautiously, hoping to surprise bayern through the superior speed and technique that some of our players have. unfortunately we failed and we conceded a goal from a set-piece and then we had to be more aggressive and we had to try to obtain a positive result...", lăcătuş pointed out.
