After a back and forth first half, a late two-goal flurry by Mario Gómez gave die Roten the victory over Belgrade's FK Partizan. As expected the twenty-one year-old Serbian international Zoran Tošić was a dynamo of activity, constantly creating and proving why he is being watched by some of the biggest clubs in Europe. The match started on a razors edge where goals seemed ready to fill either nets but someone they managed to stay free-of till the break. At the re-start, the Serbian club came out pressing for the lead and they would have had it early but Jens Lehmann robbed Lamine Diarra with a top-shelf stop. Slowly VfB started to slice Partizan's defenders apart and with fourteen minutes later Mario Gómez struck the opening goal of the match from twenty meters after intercepting a poor defending clearance. Only four minutes later, he added his second goal from just inside the area after collecting a pass from Cacau and made the final score 2-0 for VfB.
