“He mustn’t lose the dressing room” |
Matthew’s warning to Nagelsmann
Bayern messed up a 2-0 lead at Borussia Dortmund and ended up only playing 2-2 in the giants’ summit.
Record national player Lothar Matthäus (61) issues a clear warning to Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann (35) regarding personnel decisions, said on the program “Sky90”: “Something like that is of course observed in the cabin and also discussed. He has to be careful there, Julian. He mustn’t lose the dressing room.”
Matthäus primarily means the new signings Ryan Gravenberch (20/only 115 Bundesliga minutes) and Mathys Tel (17/only 96 Bundesliga minutes), who have not yet been used as hoped. Above all, Matthäus cannot understand the fact that he was without the Frenchman Tel, who had to sit on the bench for 90 minutes in the last three Bundesliga games: “Before the season, Julian says: I expect ten Bundesliga goals from Tel. Then he has to let him play.” Because of his speed, Tel was probably the more interesting player at the league summit. Nagelsmann substituted Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (33) for Sadio Mané (30) for the last eight minutes.
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The 1990 World Champion also criticizes the Bayern team on a general point: “They forgot to score the third goal in the 70 minutes and in the last 20 minutes they just wanted to manage. Bayern let themselves be pushed in at the back, didn’t attack anymore and didn’t get into a duel anymore. That was absolutely not Bayern-like.”
“Not Bayern-like” – that’s exactly how Honorary President Uli Hoeneß (70) described the loss of the 2-0 lead in the top game.
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Matthäus believes he has found a reason why the Bayern pros have only been able to win four out of nine games in the league so far: “Perhaps some players are not as ready this season as they were in previous years. They won everything and are more focused on the Champions League. This torment that Bayern Munich held against it in Augsburg or in Dortmund for the last 20 minutes, that has to go back into the team.”
Is it now fatal for the people of Munich that they have become German champions ten times in a row?
A look at the Bundesliga statistics of the last matches might suggest that. Matthäus: “Six Bundesliga games, one win – that’s not Bayern-like either. I think it’s been more than two decades since a result like this was last given.”
One thing is clear: 16 points (4 wins, 4 draws, one bankruptcy) from nine matchdays is the weakest interim balance for the German record champions in 12 years. At the end of the 2010/11 season, BVB became champions…
