FC Bayern narrowly missed the sporty catastrophe against Glasgow. The Munich people puzzle about the reasons for their shape crash. The trainer also has his share in it.
Vincent Kompany had no time to lose. Finally, his team was 0-1 in the playoff secondary against Celtic Glasgow. At this score, FC Bayern threatened the extension after the 2-1 win in the first leg last week in Scotland.
So Kompany stepped onto the field from his coaching zone. When trying to catch the ball that joined him, so that Bavaria could not lose time and can continue to play quickly, the Belgian slipped on the wet lawn. He just passed the ball, stumbled and landed on the floor with his butt. (Read more about this curious campaign here.)
A scene with a symbolic character. No, FC Bayern really didn’t want to succeed that evening. Anyone who needed a final document was delivered to it at the latest.
With the late goal in the last minute of stoppage time to 1-1, substitute Alphonso Davies saved Bayern before the extension. The many problems with which Bayern is currently struggling with were simply no longer overlooked.
“It was important that we got on,” said sports director Christoph Freund afterwards exclusively at T-Online. “Of course we can play football better. It was not an easy game, at the end of the day a little happy with the goal in the last minute, but very, very important.” Freund also admittedly admitted: “There are some things to work up.” (Read the complete exclusive discussion with friend here.)
Sports board member Max Eberl did not see it any other way. The last two games were “no revelation”. It is not the case that “we now sit there and say: we are in top form, everything fantastic,” said Eberl. “It is not at the moment. Everything is a bit heavier.”
But he stated: “But we are through. This is the most important thing. We kept Leverkusen at a distance. That was the second most important. Now we have to learn a few things from it.” Through the 1-1 win against Celtic, FC Bayern stands in the round of 16 of the Champions League. In the Bundesliga, the German record champion is still eight points in front of his great master rival after the 0-0 on Saturday in Leverkusen.
Thomas Müller summarized things when leaving the arena in conversation with T-Online: “It is so different, but it continues.”
However, the way Bayern presented in these two games gives those responsible to think. In Leverkusen, the Munich team was completely inferior and saved a goalless draw with a lot of luck and, among other things, after two slatted hits. Against the supposed outsiders from Glasgow, the punch on the offensive was again missing.
There was nothing left of the dominant game approach, the pressing and the ball possession, which Kompany actually wants to show with his team and also practiced successfully in the first half of the season. This negative trend has been since the winter break and the games against Holstein Kiel (4: 3), Wolfsburg (3: 2), in Rotterdam (0: 3), Glasgow (2: 1) and especially in Leverkusen (0: 0) to observe.
“There were now two games that were a little different,” said Freund. The lost football line is by no means wanted. “No, no. We actually want to continue to appear dominant.”