The Munich attacker spoke out clearly after the game in Leverkusen – and criticized his own team. Müller also quotes a Bayern legend.
0:3 in the top game, completely without a chance – there is disillusionment at FC Bayern after the defeat at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday evening. And: frustration. Great frustration. After the clear defeat, Bayern star Thomas Müller gave free rein to his thoughts and emotions – and launched an all-round attack on his own team’s performance.
“There are of course some symptoms that you can also see on the pitch and, to be honest, I’m pissed off,” said a visibly annoyed Müller in an interview on Sky after the game. And then began to explain: “What I’m missing is, and that’s why I’m saying it publicly: In training, we show much better approaches because we’re brave, because we play football freely.”
Müller became even clearer: “I’m missing – and now we can quote our Oli Kahn – some of the players’ balls and freedom. We have such a mentality in our game, especially with the ball.” The Werkself show how it should actually work: “If you look at Leverkusen: Not every move is planned when Grimaldo appears on the right wing, even though he is a left-back. They just gamble, they play football, they look for solutions. That We do that too – but not in the game when the pressure is there, and that’s what I expect from our team.”
“No one has freedom”
He then called his teammates to task: “You can feel the pressure, but it has to give you energy. I don’t understand it: when things are tough, bring the ball into the opponent’s half more often, play a long ball, that If it goes out at the back, then there’s a throw-in, we can deliver it, then we have pressure in the opponent’s half.” Instead, you play “from A to B, from B to C, and nobody has the freedom to just gamble.”
However, he defended coach Thomas Tuchel: “There isn’t always a reason. If it’s there in training and the coach addresses these gaps, then we also have to tackle the players. Today we weren’t there, we lost 3-0, There were enough players on the pitch of international caliber, and that’s why you don’t need to go to coach.”