Augsburg (dpa) – Before Julian Nagelsmann released his football stars, who had been plucked a lot in Augsburg, for a Sunday off, he wanted to torment them again with video images of the bitter derby defeat.
The way in which the first in the Bundesliga played in the 1: 2 (1: 2) against passionate Augsburgers without manager Joshua Kimmich, the coach tremendously upset. The 34-year-old confessed in a bad mood before the short night bus trip back to Munich: “I’m actually really angry with us on the first day as Bayern coach because we have to do a lot better.”
Permanent construction site defensive behavior
The biggest point of criticism was once again the defensive behavior of his team. It is developing into a permanent construction site in Munich, which Nagelsmann challenges as a football teacher. “We’ll get goals the same way this season.” Once again, Nagelsmann complained of careless defending in the goals conceded by Mads Pedersen and André Hahn after conquering the ball with fast Augsburg advances over the left wing.
It’s a daring title game by the Munich series champions. There is sometimes a lack of greed in the collective work against the ball, “if you have the feeling that you can score two, three, four goals every game,” admitted Thomas Müller after his botched 600th competitive game in the Bayern jersey. “If the offensive doesn’t have as much charisma as normal, the defensive just has to be more stable – and it wasn’t,” Nagelsmann complained. The 14th goal of the season by Robert Lewandowski was not enough this time as an attack yield.
“The first half was very bad,” said Müller contrite. Nagelsmann gave urgent advice to his sloppy professionals. “Loving to win is one thing, hating losing is another.”
Müller: “We have more quality”
Müller was annoyed that it was impossible to dictate what would happen against a courageous FCA: “For us, this is a bitter setback in our understanding of how we want to play games.” Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer also reacted pissed off: “We definitely have to win against such a team. We have more quality.”
After the end of the game, Nagelsmann tried to block the Kimmich corona issue as much as possible. The unvaccinated national player is already in quarantine again because of the contact with a person who tested positive in his private sphere. A handicap, even if Nagelsmann’s lack of the key player as an excuse for the “not undeserved” defeat would be “too clumsy”, as he said.
Rather, the coach referred to his classy squad. Other clubs are likely to complain “a lot more if one or two failures occur. We at Bayern Munich shouldn’t do it,” said the 34-year-old.
Weinzierl speaks of a “holiday”
The Augsburgers had to compete in front of 26,000 amazed and enthusiastic fans without the attacking trio Ruben Vargas (Corona), Alfred Finnbogason and Florian Niederlechner. “That’s at least one Kimmich,” said coach Markus Weinzierl, who spoke of a “holiday”. All three FCA victories against FC Bayern came with him as a coach. His players impressed with aggressive, courageous, straightforward Weinzierl football. “That’s how we want to see the team,” he said.
Kimmich’s lack of vaccination remains a problem
Kimmich’s absence, which will continue on Tuesday in the Champions League at Dynamo Kiev, is a dangerous factor two weeks before the league summit in Dortmund, as Nagelsmann also knows. The national player is the flywheel in the Bayern game, the trigger for offensive and defensive team actions. Its importance was also revealed in the unsuccessful appearance of his representative Marcel Sabitzer. And not just because the Austrian let the ball be chased away before the 2-0 draw. “There is much, much more in Sabi,” puzzled Nagelsmann, who has valued Sabitzer very much since their time together in Leipzig.
Kimmich’s lack of vaccination status – like that of other Bayern professionals – remains a problem that the record champions are dragging into a harsh Corona winter. The second defeat of the season, however, only spurs you on like Müller. “Of course we will not let the result throw us off track,” said the spokesman.
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