It wasn’t FC Bayern’s Saturday afternoon. The Munich team not only lost 3-2 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, but also had to put up with the mockery of the (English-speaking) Gladbach Twitter account after the game.
FC Bayern simply cannot win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. It’s been almost two years since the record German football champions, who are otherwise used to success, last won against the Fohlenelf. Borussia was ahead again this weekend.
In the end it was 3:2 after the Munich team had not gotten more than 1:1 in the first leg because they failed in series at the Gladbach goalkeeper at the time, Yann Sommer.
Although Sommer has been in the Bayern goal since the winter as a substitute for the injured Manuel Neuer, the FCB professionals left the field as losers again. Reason enough for Gladbach’s English-language Twitter account to respond with a sneering post.
“If you buy Sommer but still can’t beat Gladbach”
The @borussia_en account also posted a picture showing Bayern boss Oliver Kahn, angry at the late equalizer to 2-2 against BVB in October 2022, slipping off his seat, garnished with the teasing saying: “When you buy Summer, but still can’t beat Gladbach”. In German: “If you buy Sommer, but still can’t defeat Gladbach.”
Gladbach posting is doing the rounds
The post quickly made the rounds on social media. Around five hours after the final whistle, the swipe had already been displayed more than 2.9 million times and had well over 110,000 “likes” (The original tweet).
“Didn’t do that,” posted a user in response to the tweet with laughing smileys. Others warned Borussia: “Caution, next week the Bayern curse will strike again”. An allusion to the fact that the Fohlenelf often (supposedly) gave away easier games after successes against Bayern Munich.
The summer mentioned in the tweet, for which the record champions transferred eight million euros to the Lower Rhine, spoke after the game of a “setback that we have to swallow. The course of the game was against us today. We have to analyze today and look ahead.”