Gladbach succeeds almost everything: FC Bayern conceded the highest cup defeat in its history

Wednesday October 27, 2021

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Gladbach succeeds almost everything
FC Bayern conceded the highest cup defeat in its history

FC Bayern falls apart early and dramatically in the second round of the DFB Cup. In the away game at Borussia Mönchengladbach, the record champions and record cup winners historically go under. It’s the biggest defeat in decades.

Sloppy, sleepy, dreadful: Bayern Munich flew out of the DFB Cup after a horrific performance at Borussia Mönchengladbach with 0: 5 (0: 3). In the middle of the heated vaccination debate about Joshua Kimmich, the desolate record title holder received the highest cup defeat in his history and, like last year, retired in the second round. “That’s shocking. We weren’t there, didn’t win a duel in the first half. We let the guts buy off. It was a collective blackout. For me that’s inexplicable,” said Bayern’s sports director Hasan Salihamidzic on ARD.

Manu Kone (2nd) and Ramy Bensebaini (15th / 21st, penalty kick) ensured a quick 3-0 for the Gladbachers, who started as unleashed, who threw their old rivals out of the cup for the first time in a seventh attempt. “You dream of something like that from time to time. But you don’t believe that something like this will become reality. That was a great achievement,” said Gladbach’s sports director Max Eberl. Breel Embolo (51./57.) Added a brace after the break. Previously, the 1: 5 in the quarter-finals in 1971/72 against Cologne was Bavaria’s biggest defeat in the cup. Across all competitions, it is the clearest defeat since the 7-1 in the Bundesliga game at Fortuna Düsseldorf in December 1978.

In front of 48,500 spectators in the Hexenkessel Borussia-Park, the Munich team appeared frighteningly harmless, especially before the break, and dropped out completely deservedly. The last two rounds of 16 in a row without Munich were in 1994 and 1995.

Borussia earned the victory in a memorable cup fight through a playfully strong performance and an outstanding Bensebaini. In the end, a furious success was achieved against Bayern, who had to do without Julian Nagelsmann again. The head coach pulled the strings from his corona quarantine and was represented on the Lower Rhine by Dino Toppmöller.

The 3-0 at halftime was still gracious, says Schweinsteiger

Nagelsmann had warned of the “most difficult task there can be in this cup round” before the kick-off from domestic isolation. And he was right: just 80 seconds were played when the only 20-year-old Kone intercepted a sloppy pass from Alphonso Davies, came back to the ball after teaming up with Embolo and deliberately took the lead. For the French it was the first goal in the Gladbach dress.

And Borussia’s assault continued. While the Bavarians hardly knew what was happening to them and looked like a pile of chickens in defense, the Hütter-Elf earned one chance after the other. When Bensebaini completed an attack like from the lesson about Embolo and national player Jonas Hofmann against the direction of Manuel Neuer to 2-0, the faces froze on the Bayern bank at Toppmöller and Co.

And that’s not all. Lucas Hernández, who had a few hours before kick-off with an appeal against his impending prison sentence, fouled Embolo in the penalty area, Bensebaini easily converts the penalty. For the first time in their history, Bayern were so far behind in the DFB Cup so early. “It could also be 4-0 or 5-0,” said ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger during the break.

After the change, Borussia, which had won three of the last five home games against Bayern in the Bundesliga, even scored four and five goals through Embolo. With that, the last tender Bayern hopes burst on a memorable evening.