With their first double, Bayern women have succeeded in historical success in the club’s history. However: Success coach Straus moves to Los Angeles at the end of the season and there is also room for improvement. What’s next?
“After the championship, we were still professional not to shoot down. Today it looks different,” cheered Lea Schüller in the ARD interview after the DFB Cup victory against Werder Bremen. The striker had every reason with three goals (6th, 65th 79th minute) to celebrate after the 4: 2 success. Like the entire FCB team, which wrote in Cologne-Müngersdorf with the most successful season in women’s history.
Impressive second half of the season ensures third championship titles in a row
“We played very dominant. It is simply outstanding that we can reward ourselves with the trophy for such a season,” continued Schüller. The Munich women started the season with the Supercup title. A strong Bundesliga season followed.
A 3-1 against SC Freiburg had given Munich women on Sunday, April 27, the third championship in a row. An astonishingly sovereign success when you consider that Eintracht Frankfurt put the autumn champions. In the league spurt, the Bavarians showed why they degraded all other German teams.
The recipe for success of the Munich women
The FCB women play patiently and with a lot of game control, but can still put down setbacks and act tactically. When it gets frenzy, the technically outstanding players switch up a gear and dominate every Bundesliga team at the pace.
The FC Bayern squad is so balanced and with a lot of quality that it would in turn be unbalanced to highlight individual players. But the contract extension of Klara Bühl, ennobled by national coach Christian Wück as the world class player, will certainly not hurt Bavaria.
Surprising departure of the key figure Straus
A bitter loss, on the other hand, is the departure of head coach Alexander Straus to Los Angeles. This message came surprisingly on Maundy Thursday. “My biggest goal was to leave FC Bayern women’s team in a better position at the end of my time. I think we have achieved this goal in the past three years,” writes the 49-year-old in the club announcement. Straus has left a team that has blossomed with a solid base for the gold standard in German football and with which even more is possible.
International is still room for improvement
A successor has not yet been determined after the double gain. The challenge will be to take the famous next step. In the Champions League, the Munich women did not get out of the quarter -finals again this season. There won Olympique Lyon clearly, among other things because Bavaria did not take opportunities. There is room for improvement internationally. A successful season is not yet decisive for cutting off in the Champions League, as with the men’s team.
Straus: “One or two wheat beer, then I can enjoy it.”
It is an enormous success that the Munich women in the Müngersdorf stadium won the trophy and the double. Player Carolin Simon also says: “Now we are more than deserving to accelerate.”
Shortly after the final whistle, coach Straus was not really in the mood to make Cologne unsafe: “I’m tired, I’m done. One or two wheat beers, then I can enjoy it.” It remains to be desired by the Norwegian that exceptionally one or two Kölsch.
In the video: Lea Schüller in an interview after the cup victory
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