Bavaria after Fastblamage
“We have to get that under control”
Updated on February 19, 2025 – 01:23Reading time: 2 min.
Against Celtic Glasgow, FC Bayern almost flown out of the Champions League. After the game, players and those responsible gave themselves self -critical.
With a last minute goal, FC Bayern turned away on Tuesday evening in the Champions League and thus a huge embarrassment. In the second leg of the playoffs against Celtic Glasgow, the Munich team were 0-1 behind after a 2-1 first leg in Scotland in the Allianz Arena. A few seconds before the end, Alphonso Davies poked the ball over the line for acclaimed compensation.
Bavaria’s sports director Max Eberl answered the questions of journalists after the game in the mixed zone of the arena. After the 0-0 on Saturday in Leverkusen, in which the Munich team had not completely convinced and against Celtic, the 51-year-old admitted: “We are not there now and say: We are in top form, everything is fantastic at the moment. Not.
Then, however, he emphasized the success of the evening and the past weekend: “But we are through. This is the most important thing. We kept Leverkusen at a distance. That was the second most important.” Because: Due to the victory against Celtic, FC Bayern stands in the round of 16 of the Champions League. In the Bundesliga, the German record champion continues to stand eight points ahead of Leverkusen in the table.
Similar to Eberl, Thomas Müller, meanwhile, analyzed the game against Celtic. “Sovereign is different, but it continues,” the veteran diplomatic said after the game towards T-Online.
Joshua Kimmich did not want to speak of luck despite Davies’s late hit: “I don’t think we had Dusel,” said the DFB captain. Bavaria’s midfield chief actually saw his team against Celtic superior. He made the problem against the Scots in the high susceptibility of Munich. “We already checked in the second half,” said Kimmich. “In the first half we invited you with mistakes. I think we have to turn it off, we have to get that under control.”
The 30-year-old was also happy that Bayern fulfilled their targets in the end. “The week was very important. If you now look in where we are, we are out of the cup, unfortunately that can no longer be changed. In the Bundesliga we have preserved the distance. We moved into the round of 16, “said Kimmich.
“We have to screw a bit in the way we designed the games.” But in the end, as well as all other participants, the relief and satisfaction of what had been achieved prevailed, regardless of the establishment.