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FC Bayern’s first Bundesliga defeat of the season was memorable. Eintracht Frankfurt dealt the Munich team an unparalleled disgrace. Bayern professional Leon Goertzka finds an approach to the reason – which Lothar Matthäus also supports.
The embarrassment of FC Bayern demands answers and lo and behold, a remarkable strand is emerging. The story goes something like this: The long break after the game against Union Berlin was canceled last weekend did not do the Munich team any good.
This is surprising at first, because relaxation sounds good at first, but it is supported by two intimate experts at FC Bayern: Lothar Matthäus and Leon Goretzka. The midfielder sat in the ZDF “Sportstudio” after the 5-1 disgrace at Eintracht Frankfurt. Goretzka was asked by presenter Katrin Müller-Hohenstein what the reason for the first Bundesliga defeat was, especially at this level. There are many explanations, he replied, “Losing 1:5 is modest. When you then realize in the cabin that you can still go to the gym, it doesn’t necessarily make it any better.”
Because Bayern now have their last competitive game on November 29th. Müller-Hohenstein wanted to know whether Bayern might have lost their rhythm as a result. “That is certainly an answer,” said Goretzka, “even if that certainly cannot be seen as an excuse. But it’s very unusual for us not to play for ten days. We usually play every three days.”
Leon Goretzka on Saturday evening in the ZDF “Sportstudio”.
Those: zdf.de/Sportstudio
Although the team had trained well, he reported, “you couldn’t tell during training that we had fallen into a hole.” But “with the kick-off today it looked like it would.” In any case, Frankfurt won 52 percent of the duels and ran around ten kilometers more than Munich. In addition, Bayern made an absurd series of individual mistakes around goalscorer Joshua Kimmich.
Absurd series of individual mistakes by FC Bayern
But for football expert Matthäus it was explainable; shortly after the final whistle on Sky he gave a similar explanation as Goretzka later. Matthäus said he heard the interim results on the radio, “I thought he mixed up the names.”
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The former Bayern professional said that the “bang in the Bundesliga” was explainable for him. Matthäus said that the defending champion’s slightly longer break from play was poison for their preparation: “It’s not good for Bayern if they don’t have a rhythm. “
Bayern had only lost three times in this millennium by a four-goal difference in the Bundesliga: in 2002 under Ottmar Hitzfeld with 1:5 at Schalke, twice – in 2009 (1:5 in Wolfsburg) by Jürgen Klinsmann and in 2019 (1:5 in Frankfurt) by Niko Kovac – the Bayern coach lost his job at Säbener Straße a short time later. That doesn’t threaten Tuchel this time, but with Frankfurt’s total loss, at least the importance of the year-end spurt against VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg has increased. Another mistake and Bayern could already fall behind in the duel with Leverkusen.
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The Champions League game at Manchester United on Tuesday (9 p.m., in the WELT sports ticker) is actually meaningless in terms of sport for the Munich group winners. But it now offers a quick chance for rehabilitation. “That’s the beauty of football. We’ll continue next week to find a reaction to the game in Frankfurt. That is our focus now. Now it’s time to show a different face and gain self-confidence,” said Goretzka.
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