Before Champions League duel
Rummenigge: “That stinks of our team until the gone”
02/26/2025 – 07:14 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
FC Bayern will have to go against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League next week. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge commented on this.
The German showdown in the Champions League will be the German showdown next Wednesday, the fifth. FC Bayern is not the role of the outsider – especially not in the premier class. In front of the round of 16 with Bayer Leverkusen, the record champion develops a defiant reaction.
“Do you know what makes me optimistic?” Asked Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on the sidelines of the Premiere of the Prime Video documentary “Thomas Müller-one like none” in Munich. Then he clearly added: “That all Bayer Leverkusen have declared a favorite. I know our team. That stinks to our team until the gone.”
The Munich receives the reigning double winner from Leverkusen for the first leg, a week later the second leg in the Bayarena increases.
Rummenigge expects “that our team plays with full throttle and then with eleven men”. The long-time CEO recalled the DFB Cup duel of both teams when Bayer was outnumbered for a long time after an early red card against Manuel Neuer.
The “Finale Dahoam” in the Allianz Arena would of course be a dream, “said Uli Hoeneß. For this, the team of coach Vincent Kompany has to play “better than last”. However, the 4-0 victory against Eintracht Frankfurt was more optimistic the honorary president.
Hoeneß: “That was FC Bayern, whom I imagine and who is also able to beat every team in the world. I haven’t had the hope of the Champions League final by Saturday afternoon, which has been since Sunday evening But greater. “