Champions League – Bayern, a stop that hurts: it will be revolution

A great, very great, disappointment. Bayern Munich leaves the Champions League already greeting in the quarter-finals. A single goal scored at Villarreal between home and away is not enough to go through. And in Germany there are questions about the reasons. The fact that Nagelsmann only had Gnabry as a high-level attacking substitute may be significant, but more had to be done against the seventh in the Spanish league. In the last four editions of the top European competition, only in 2020 (when the Champions format was revised due to Covid) Bayern passed the quarterfinals. For the rest, there was an elimination in the round of 16 (in 2019 against Liverpool) and two in the quarters (against PSG in 2021 and Villarreal yesterday). Too little. “The season is not enough,” said Nagelsmann. And the company shares.

Bad mood

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At the end of the match against the Spaniards, Thomas Müller did nothing to hide his disappointment. “To concede a goal like this is extremely bitter – he explained -. We played a busy game, with the fans supporting us we pushed, pushed and pushed again. Before the draw we probably should have scored another goal, but their goal was not In the air. After all they had only one chance. If we only analyze today’s game, we had to go through. Considering the first leg, this is the result. The situation is very bitter. We have to accept the elimination. , but well, I don’t know what to say … “. Nagelsmann is also angry: “In the cup we went out immediately, in the Champions League the minimum goal was the semi-final. We can’t be satisfied with the season. I don’t know what awaits me, certainly Bielefeld in the next round of the championship. I’m not afraid, there is always worse in life “. His position on the bench is not in the balance, but considering that Bayern paid 20 million to snatch him from Leipzig in the summer, more was expected of him from the first year. The team, on the other hand, seemed, from the beginning of the season, to be too fragile in defense and too biased forward. Col Villarreal conceded a goal from a counterattack seconds from the end, without delaying and trying to sink the blow in extra time. Too much frenzy, too little tactical shrewdness. And in the end he paid.

FUTURE

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We will continue with Nagelsmann therefore, but in the summer Bayern could still change its face: Süle will leave the club on a free transfer to Dortmund and it is not excluded that Lewandowski may also leave. The Pole’s contract expires in 2023. The forward hinted that he was disappointed that Bayern have not yet addressed the renewal issue in practice. On him there is Barcelona, ​​in recent days some Polish media have stated that the player would have asked the Bavarians to sell him. Before the match against Villarreal, an interview released by Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn to German TV was perplexed: “He will stay at least one more year. We’re not crazy, we don’t think about how to replace someone who has been for so many seasons he scores 30-40 goals per championship. ” But when the reporter pointed out that Lewandowski’s stay is important news, Kahn took a step back: “This is now a suggestion.” As if to say that in Bayern’s plans there is no sale of Lewandowski, but if he were to force the sale, the situation could change. And someone speculates that the Bavarians, for the attack, would be interested in Schick, who is doing so well with Leverkusen. Even this, however, for the moment is only a suggestion. The truth is there is only one great, very great disappointment. Due to the elimination from the Champions League.