Julian Nagelsmann is threatened with Bayern Munich’s end in the Champions League.
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It would be wrong if the FC Bayern coach had to fear ultimate consequences after being eliminated from the Champions League. But a failure against Villarreal could change the way he is viewed.
An Saturday evening, 72 hours before his most important game as FC Bayern Munich football coach, Julian Nagelsmann said a sentence that actually contradicts his ideal: “We’re in the phase of the season where you don’t have to shine, but win.”
That’s not how Nagelsmann speaks, who also has aesthetics as a requirement, who wants to entertain people with his team, right? No, but that’s how Nagelsmann speaks, who previously only won 1-0 in the Bundesliga against the fourteenth; the Nagelsmann, who could now fail in the Champions League against the seventh in the Spanish league; the Nagelsmann, who has been working for a club since summer 2021 in which experience has shown that coaches have to fear the ultimate consequences: not to shine – and not to win.
