Werder Bremen took advantage of their mini-opportunity and can continue to hope for the Bundesliga stay via the detour. The North Germans still have two games to play after the season finale, so there was only a short cheer after the jump to 16th place.
At Fortuna Düsseldorf, however, the work-up of the messed-up season after the sixth relegation to the Bundesliga should take even longer. There was reason to be happy on the 34th matchday of the Bundesliga for Gladbach, Bavaria, Hoffenheim – and DFL boss Christian Seifert.
WERDER WONDER: Florian Kohfeldt’s wife suspected it. The morning before the game against 1. FC Köln, she texted her husband that Werder Bremen would win 6-1. Few would have bet that it would ultimately come to pass and that Kohfeldt’s team would really save themselves in the relegation with their second home win of the season.
“Now the door is open again, I am very optimistic that we can do it. But it is still a mega tension,” said Werder’s supervisory board boss Marco Bode, who expressly prohibited the team from prematurely celebrating. 1. FC Heidenheim could wait in the relegation – or archrival Hamburger SV. Coach Kohfeldt is definitely back on his wife as a lucky charm. “I hope she writes me some good numbers again on Thursday and Monday,” said the 37-year-old.
DÜSSELDORFER DRAMA: Two points and four goals ahead were not enough: Fortuna Düsseldorf relegated from the Bundesliga despite the better starting position. The 0: 3 at Union Berlin sealed the bitter end of the season for the Rhinelander. “It is an uncanny emptiness for all of us,” said coach Uwe Rösler, for whom 15 points have not been enough since taking office in late January. The 51-year-old now wants the Fortuna to start again in league two: “I am looking forward to the task of being able to make up for it,” he announced.
SPIRIT MASTER: The Bayern bosses had their first beer in the stands shortly before the final whistle. Rightly so: the record champion ended an impressive season in an impressive manner. Since the change of coach from Niko Kovac to Hansi Flick last autumn, things have only gone uphill, and even the Corona break did not slow the record champion on the way to the 30th title. Thanks to the 4-0 win in Wolfsburg, even the best second half of the Bundesliga was successful with 16 wins, a draw and 54:10 goals. Thomas Müller ensured that a Bayern team scored 100 goals in one season for the second time.
“Autumn was not easy, both for the club and for me personally. Accordingly, besides my first championship, it is perhaps the most special, the most intense, the most emotional,” said Müller after his ninth.
EUROPE END SPURT: A year ago, the Gladbachers gambled away the premier class on the last match day – the story didn’t repeat itself. After the 2-1 win against Hertha BSC, Borussia will be in the Champions League next season. “The Champions League is now an exclamation point,” said sports director Max Eberl. Leverkusen – who only remains fifth despite a 1-0 win over Mainz – consoled themselves with the cup final against Bayern Munich next Saturday. “We want to deliver a big fight,” said sports director Rudi Völler. The Werkself are accompanied in the Europa League by TSG Hoffenheim, who celebrated four-goal scorer Andrej Kramaric after the 4-0 win in Dortmund. Wolfsburg must be seventh in the qualification.
FINAL POINT: RB Leipzig’s Timo Werner said goodbye with a double pack and a record from the Bundesliga, Dortmund’s Mario Götze went quietly and quietly: The end of the Corona season also means the end of their Bundesliga time for some stars. Werner scored his away goals 16 and 17 this season before moving to Chelsea at 2-1 in Augsburg – previously only Jupp Heynckes 1973/74 had managed that, according to the league. “The time in Leipzig was the best in my career so far,” said the striker. Götze, however, was not in the squad at BVB. “In total, it was many years that I spent in Dortmund that were filled with many positive and negative feelings,” said Götze. Bavaria’s Philippe Coutinho and Gladbach’s Raffael also said goodbye – Bremen’s oldie Claudio Pizarro, on the other hand, could celebrate the personal happy ending of his Bundesliga time in the relegation with Werder.
GRATEFUL DFL CHEF: Christian Seifert congratulated not only FC Bayern at the strange championship ceremony in the empty Wolfsburg stadium, but also all players of the Bundesliga and the 2nd league, the authorities and the fans. The managing director of the German Football League was relieved to find that Germany was the first country in Corona times to still be able to complete its championship regularly.
“It looks different, it sounds different, and it feels different. But that was the only Bundesliga that was possible,” said Seifert – and prepared the fans that it was still at the beginning of the new season will not go on normally.
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