After the wild 4: 3 against Kiel, not only the captains of FC Bayern speak plain text. One thing is particularly worried.
Julian Buhl reports from Munich
The fact that FC Bayern won his home game against promoted Kiel was pretty much the only one with which the players and those responsible for the record champions were satisfied on Saturday afternoon. The way in which it came about in the end was anything like that was anything but the Munich had anything but fell. The three unnecessary goals in particular gave Bavaria to concern with a view to the hot February. In two weeks, the important playoff games in the Champions League against Celtic Glasgow and the Bundesliga play game with Meister Bayer Leverkusen, which is located on February 15, will be pending.
Accordingly, all players who ran into the reporter zone in the catacombs of the arena after the game against Kiel also worked frustrated. Manuel Neuer was no exception.
“We broke the game that we designed well over long distances. That is annoying,” said the Bayern captain.
His second deputy Joshua Kimmich saw the same. “It was particularly distinguished by us in the first half of the season that we did the games over 90 minutes, brought the hunger on the pitch for 90 minutes. And that is a bit off to us now,” said Kimmich. “Especially today, and also at the Champions League game, where it got a bit wild in the back.” Kimmich further: “We have to check that 90, 95 minutes, and that must be our claim.”
After the 4-0 lead in the meantime, the team apparently switched back several gears a little too early. “You can easily play it down. But we still can’t lose our principles,” said Kimmich.
Jamal Musiala, who had brought Bayern 1-0 with his early goal, also complained: “None of us are happy that we won 4: 3 here. We have to have the mentality to work 90 minutes and none Taking goals. “
The analysis of sports director Christoph Freund was also sobering. “Of course it was unnecessary that we made the game so exciting again. It is a shame that you win, but with the feeling that the last 20 or 25 minutes were not so good,” said Freund. “We have to stay concentrated over 90, 95 minutes, stay hungry and pull through our game.”
With a view to the directional games in February, Freund said: “Of course we have to sharpen the senses.” Otherwise, Bayern threatens a bad awakening.