FC Bayern is facing its most important game this season. Next Tuesday (from 9:00 p.m.) the Munich team will be fighting for progress in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against FC Villarreal and will have to catch up from a 0-1 deficit from the first leg. Head coach Julian Nagelsmann gave a little insight into how he finally wants to get his superstars back to top performances.
The last 1-0 win in the Bundesliga against FC Augsburg made it clear again: Too many regulars at FC Bayern are chasing their best form in the hot phase of the season.
What is still enough in the championship for a comfortable nine-point cushion over the only pursuer Borussia Dortmund could soon mean the end in the European premier class.
“I have a lot to do until Tuesday, I’m aware of that,” said Bayern head coach Julian Nagelsmann in an interview with “table football” in the run-up to the Villarreal second leg.
Star players like Leroy Sané or Thomas Müller have lost a lot of form in the last few weeks, and some of them have only performed averagely.
“There are simple things, like putting every player in their most comfortable position,” said Nagelsmann, explaining how he wants to get his most important players in the professional squad back to their best.
FC Bayern threatens second quarterfinals in a row
“The topic of ‘strong talk’ is too clumsy for me, because the players all know that they are outstanding, that’s why they play at Bayern Munich,” continued Nagelsmann.
Before the second duel with the yellow submarine from Spain, the 34-year-old made it clear that in this important knockout game he would not be interested in playing as attractively as possible: “We won’t have to deliver a glamor game on Tuesday either, but a game in which we ended up scoring two goals more than in the first leg.”
After the 0: 1 in the first leg, FC Bayern threatens to miss the semi-finals of the Champions League for the second time in a row. Last year, the German record champions failed in the last eight because of Paris Saint-Germain.