Lost leadership, lost victory, opened the door for BVB: A recurring pattern could ensure that FC Bayern is without a title at the end of a season for the first time in eleven years. Ex-national player Stefan Effenberg thinks he knows how that could have happened.
When those responsible at FC Bayern start their season analysis in a few days, three games from the second half of the season will be in particular focus: the home game against Leipzig and the two away games in Leverkusen and Mainz. In all three games, the Munich team led at half-time and still ended up losing. Such a course was hardly imaginable in recent years.
Ex-national player Stefan Effenberg sees this as a dangerous pattern for which there can only be one explanation. “It seems that Bayern are not able to march over 90 or 95 minutes,” said the former professional in “Sport1-Doppelpass” a strength and condition problem within the team.
FC Bayern “always collapses” after halftime
“They always collapse completely in the second half. That has to be related to their fitness,” added the “Tiger”, who more or less criticized the Munich coaches in charge. After all, they are the ones who have to ensure that the professionals meet the physical demands.
Effenberg sees another omission in the trainers. In his eyes, they failed to establish a clear base formation. “Whether Mané, Sané, Gnabry, also Goretzka and Musiala. And suddenly Mazraoui plays on the right, Pavard wants to go to the center – there are so many construction sites,” the TV expert calculated.
Overall, the Munich team has given a picture in recent weeks “like you have never seen in the last ten years: rather without a leader on the pitch, not with the heart, not this ‘mia san mia’, and not with the fitness either , which you have to have to become a champion,” Effenberg criticized the record champion.