FC Bayern Munich survives the play-off second leg against Celtic Glasgow with a 1-1 thanks to Alphonso Davies’ last minute goal. After three games in six days, the FCB stays on track, but it doesn’t play exciting football.
Actually, the signs were on extra time: Another 30 minutes more for FC Bayern Munich, who played the third game against Celtic Glasgow in the second leg of the Champions League Play-offs in six days. After the former FC Bayern-II player Nicolas Kühn took the lead in the 63rd minute Celtic, it was 2-2 after the first and second leg.
Goretzka: “Three games in six days”
“We could have made the evening easier without the goal. But with three games in six days it was about achieving results,” Leon Goretzka admitted after the final whistle at Amazon Prime. The 1: 1 scored in the 90th+4th Minute Alphonso Davies. The substitute had literally forced the ball over the goal line and Bayern Munich led again after the first and second leg.
Davies: “You play with high intensity”
“This is the Champions League. We played against a strong Celtic. They play with a high level of intensity. We are happy that we got on,” said the scorer, who was his at the beginning of February Treaty at Bayern Munich extended by 2030 had.
The Leroy Sané, who was also substituted substitute, had initiated the last minute exemption by claiming the ball in the penalty area. Michael Olise fled the ball perfectly to Goretzka, but he failed due to Schmeichel: “I think I can get to the header almost in the five -meter room, so you can of course say that you have to do it,” admitted Goretzka. “If you want to see something positive now, then he also holds it well.”
What is currently missing in the Bayern game
The greatest praise from Goretzka was not entirely unselfish for the goal scorer: “Of course I am also grateful to him, because otherwise I will not be quite as good if I don’t do it and so I have an assist. In this respect, I stand in this respect Something in his guilt. “
FC Bayern Munich certainly hadn’t shown its best football on this Tuesday evening. A failed pass and consequences in the defense led to the deficit. The German record champion had already been susceptible to the counterattack, while the urgency and creativity were missing in the attack.
Goretzka: “These phases are very important”
However, the offensive performance was not as mau against Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, where the Munich team had only come to two shots on top. And like the 1-1 against Celtic, the 0-0 in Leverkusen finally brought FCB more, because you keep the reigning champion with eight points at a comfortable distance – and you are a round in the Champions League.
Leon Goretzka is not worried about the fact that Bayern is currently very exciting: “These phases are very important. This is exactly the moments when you don’t play the stars from heaven that wear you through such a season when you can do it , because to deliver results. “
Leverkusen again?
Except for the cup output against Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich delivers results, even if you had to turn an extra round in the play-offs in the Champions League to move into the round of 16. The chances are 50 percent that there are already fate games against Bayer Leverkusen. Atlético Madrid could also be, that will be decided next Friday.
Source: BR24Sport 19.02.2025 – 8:54 a.m.
