After missing a double chance, Bayern Munich coach Alexander Straus defended his goalkeeper Maria Luisa Grohs. “That’s a shot that Mala saves 99 times out of 100,” said the Norwegian after the champions’ 0-2 (0-2) defeat in the DFB Cup final against series winners VfL Wolfsburg.
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The keeper looked bad when Jule Brand’s long-range shot (14th) gave VfL an early lead. “It’s a stupid touchdown, but… Yes, it would be better if I held it,” said the 22-year-old on ZDF.
Bayern keeper Maria Luisa Grohs made a mistake in the cup final against Wolfsburg
Bayern mistake like Neuer’s
The parallel to the drama of the men’s team the day before is almost absurd: Manuel Neuer also made a highly unusual blunder in the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, and Bayern were eliminated.
With the score at 1-0, the captain of the German record champions made a technical error in the 88th minute of the game when he allowed a relatively harmless shot from Vinicius Jr. to bounce forward while attempting to catch it. The dust-up landed on substitute Joselu, who didn’t take long to ask. A little later, the Real joker scored again to make the final score 2-1.
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Neuer said afterwards that he “expected the decisive ball differently”: “It then went a little higher. I didn’t expect that there was a minimal mole in the place. Then Joselu was simply faster, so it will be difficult to defend that. This 1-1 is brutal.”
Coach Thomas Tuchel spoke of a mistake “that won’t happen to Manuel Neuer in 100 years” and, like his women’s colleague Straus, defended the keeper, with very similar words: “Someone just asked me if Manu made one of 100 times Holds 99 times. He holds it 10,000 times out of 10,000. This is 10,001.”
New mistake dismays Thomas Tuchel: “Out of 10,000, he makes it 10,000 times
Consolation from Hainer
Club president Herbert Hainer also gave the Bayern women consolation. Despite the defeat, he was “proud of this team, which defended the German championship just a few days ago.” It “will not be the last final” for the women’s team, said Hainer and congratulated their big rivals from Wolfsburg on the “ “Deserved tenth cup win in a row”.
But Straus was “very disappointed because we didn’t show our best and seemed empty in the first half.” But the further development in his second year in Munich makes him positive: “We are on the right track. We will come back and want to compete for every title. But we need more consistency.”
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National striker Lea Schüller also felt great frustration, “because we deserved to lose, that’s eating at us.” Nevertheless, the “most honest title” still needs to be celebrated at the end of the season, said midfielder Sarah Zadrazil about the championship party that is still to come. The title was already decided five days before the cup final, but because the final in Cologne was approaching, there was no chance of a big party.
2024-05-10 05:26:27
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