In Milan, the big dream of “Finale Dahoam” bursts for FC Bayern. This provides uncomfortable knowledge. The record champion must draw the right teachings from it.
Julian Buhl reports from Milan
The melancholy Italian hit music, so to speak as a gourmet, fit into the picture when the midnight banquet of FC Bayern slowly dissolved at around 1.30 a.m. With Thomas Müller and Leon Goretzka, the last two players had just left the Meliá Milano Hotel’s ballroom.
At an Italian buffet with saffronrisotto Milanste, Focaccia, Pasta and Pizza, the Münchner’s enthusiasm had flushed down the frustration over the 2: 2 in the quarter-final secondary at Inter Milan with red and white wine. After the 1-2 in the first leg last week in Munich, it was finally sealed in the Champions League. It is therefore clear that the final on May 31 will take place in its own arena without the Munich.
Board boss Jan-Christian Dreesen also did not get around in his speech in the hall decorated with magnificent chandeliers. “We all had this dream of the final Dahoam, from the title of Dahoam, as I once said. He burst. And we are all sad about it,” he said.
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On Thursday morning, Bayern traveled back to Munich with the sobering certainty that this big dream was in retrospect no more than an illusion. It was not the only unpleasant knowledge that Bayern from Milan took.
Even in the catacombs of the venerable San-Siro stadium, Joshua Kimmich spoke out a few points as usual and relentlessly. (Read more here.) “We didn’t beat many top European teams,” said Kimmich, counting the two round of 16 against Leverkusen and the home game won against Paris Saint-Germain in the league.
The defeats at Aston Villa (0: 1), in Barcelona (1: 4), in Rotterdam (0: 3) and that opposite Inter (1: 2) in the previous week. In addition, there is the arduous 1: 1 in the playoff second leg against Celtic Glasgow. This is not a balance of an absolute top team that can win the premier class. In addition, Kimmich identified another negative trend, especially in this calendar year. “If we look at the last seven or eight games, we only won two or three of them. That is clearly too little,” he said.
Kimmich didn’t want to go bad. That is why he says: “If you see where we come from, then I am already convinced that we are on a good and right way. Nevertheless, we still have to adapt and improve a lot of things,” he said about the development under coach Vincent Kompany.
“The trend is not very good now. If you look back, the last seven games, there was simply too little countable.” The truth includes, however, that Kimmich did not manage to decide the two important inter games as the leader of the team in favor of Bavaria.
Sports director Max Eberl, on the other hand, spoke of “a good champions league season for me” and irritated his listeners. After all, the season should actually have provided him with valuable knowledge and with regard to the squad planning.
These are the losers of Milan
As part of the quarter -finals, several players proved to be their personal losers. Min-Jae Kim, who lost the header duel in Milan in front of both goals, is definitely one of them. He was a weak point in Bavaria in this form and got a grade of five for his weak performance from T-Online.
The Sacha Boey, which was substituted in the first leg, made the mistake in the final accounts, which led to the goal to go to 1: 2. In the second leg, as well as usually – he sat on the bench for 90 minutes. So far, the new addition, which was brought by Galatasaray Istanbul for 30 million euros in January 2024, has not managed to prove that he has Bayern format.
50 million euro summer transfer João Palhinha also played no role in the crucial season phase and the two inter-games. Leroy Sané was in both starting eleven. However, he missed it again to show that he can also make the difference in large games. And with it the possibility of collecting arguments for an extension of his contract that expires in the summer.