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Even Robert Lewandowski’s 20th season this goal did not help Bayern Munich footballers make a successful start to the retaliatory in the Bundesliga.
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The reigning champion lost in the 18th round of the highest German competition at home with Borussia Mönchengladbach 1: 2 Slovak representative László Bénes entered the guests in the 79th minute.
Bayern had nine players on the covid list, led by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, and coach Julian Nagelsmann had to experiment with the lineup. With 18 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 1 – 0 lead as Florian Neuhaus flipped the ball in after a cross from the right.
After the change of sides, Bayern pushed the opponent, but he did not manage to win even a draw. At the top of the table, he has a nine-point lead over Borussia Dortmund, who has a good match.
Mönchengladbach reaffirmed that he knew at Bayern what the Bavarians were convinced of last year in the German Cup last October, when they suffered a 0: 5 debacle on Borussia. “Gladbach is definitely not one of our favorite opponents. We can prepare well for us and punish our mistakes. It is very difficult to start the second part of the Bundesliga season with a home loss, but we have to mobilize quickly and focus on the next matches,” stressed Thomas Müller.
He did not want to attribute the loss to the fact that Bayern lacked a lot of support. “We have a lot of quality in the team and enough players who are able to replace the stable members of the basic eleven. We have paid for the fact that we did not take many chances and we gave the opponent too much space before our sixteen.” added the German representative, who did not take advantage of two good opportunities in the second half.
Borussia ended the five-match Bundesliga series without winning. “Our game plan worked out perfectly. Bayern lacked a lot of players, but we didn’t let that affect us. We played bravely forward, got into renumbering and ended up with two chances. We defended defensively at the end of the match and didn’t let Bayern into the chance. “Victory is the work of the whole team,” stressed Neuhaus, the equalizer for the visitors.
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