“When you as an opponent see that three or four regular players are not there, then a moment of hope arises,” said the 52-year-old. “But the team killed this hope in the first minute. And played a super dominant first half.” Joshua Kimmich even spoke of “perhaps the best” of the season so far.
Tom Bischof, who joined the team as a left-back and earned t-online grade 2 with a strong performance, played a decisive role in this. With his dream pass to Serge Gnabry across half the field, he finally made it 1-0.
“We wanted to show that we can win the game with the supposed B team,” he said afterwards. “I think that was a sign to the entire Bundesliga that we really have a good squad and can beat any team if we give 100 percent on the pitch.”
Bayern have already beaten almost all of their closest rivals in the table with Leipzig, Dortmund, Leverkusen and Frankfurt. Only Stuttgart is still missing, although Munich have already beaten the Swabians in the Supercup. Already after the 9th matchday it is clear: the Bundesliga capitulates to Bayern. Bayern scored 33 goals and only conceded four. The second best offense (Frankfurt) has 22 goals, the second best defense (Dortmund) has conceded six goals.
Munich’s dominance is increasingly reminiscent of the times under Pep Guardiola from 2013 to 2016, when the championship was basically decided after the first series for three years in a row at the latest.
Back then, Guardiola regularly declared in March or April, with a view to his team’s only theoretically achievable points lead: “Bundesliga is over”, the Bundesliga is over.
Eberl didn’t want to go quite that far. But he also spoke of a “signal” after the Bayern B team’s victory in the top game. “We at FC Bayern are extremely happy that we have such a broad, good squad,” said Eberl with an equally broad grin – after all, the supposed lack of width was exactly what was criticized most at FC Bayern before the start of the season. “It’s a wonderful feeling for us,” Eberl continued. “We want to become German champions. And we took a big step today.”
It takes a lot of imagination to believe that Bayern could actually be stopped by another team on their way to winning the title this Bundesliga season. Things look different in the Champions League. The reigning champion Paris will now try to do just that. And will definitely meet Bayern’s A-Elf.