Niklas Süle (r.) enjoyed an impressive debut for Bayern, scoring the first goal in a 3-1 win over Leverkusen. - © © imago
Niklas Süle (r.) enjoyed an impressive debut for Bayern, scoring the first goal in a 3-1 win over Leverkusen. - © © imago

Reactions to Bayern Munich's opening-day win vs. Leverkusen

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As debuts for your new club go, Bayern Munich defender Niklas Süle's couldn't have gone much better on Friday night.

The 21-year-old needed just nine minutes to score his first goal for the club, heading the opener in the 3-1 season-opening victory against Bayer Leverkusen.

Click here to recap all the action as it happened!

Find out what the former Hoffenheim man, and the key protagonists from both sides, made of the game below...

Niklas Süle: "It's obviously a great start for me. It was a cool feeling and obviously I had goosebumps when I scored. But more important was that we won today. We definitely didn't play to our maximum and we gave away too many chances, which is a bit of a shame. But all in all it was a deserved win."

Watch: Süle delighted with debut goal and win

Sebastian Rudy (Bayern midfielder): "We gave too much away, in the second half especially, but we saw the game out well and we deserved to win. I tried to show my quality from the first minute. If I can get a bit more consistency, I'll get even better."

Bernd Leno (Leverkusen goalkeeper): "We had so many chances - I can't remember playing here and having as many chances to score as that. We conceded three goals from set-pieces and we need to rectify that, as that's what decides matches. You can see the coach has introduced a new philosophy to the team, though. We can be satisfied with the performance, if not the result."

Heiko Herrlich (Leverkusen coach): "It's never a nice feeling when you lose, but we shouldn't be ashamed of ourselves tonight. What's frustrating is that we fell behind in the first half from two set-pieces. Bayern could have sealed the result earlier, but my team tried to played football and created lots of chances. That was very good. We just needed to be more clinical."