Bundesliga check: when bad Bavarians become conspiracy theorists

A player who fools his own goalkeeper. A trainer who is not only asked, but also asked, but who is still silent. And an FC Bayern who spends an extremely uncomfortable night in Berlin-Brandenburg. As always wide awake in his review of the game day: the stern-Check.

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That’s how the game day went

All results of the 20th matchday, the table and statistics for reading can be found here in stern-Ticker.

Excitement of the game day

To organize a Club World Cup in Qatar in the deepest pandemic winter and to have the continental champions fly in from all over the world is again such a typically unworldly football circus that you almost want to laugh if it wasn’t so sad. Bayern have to endure the fact that the neutral observer can hardly hold back his smile when he hears how the entourage of the German record champions had to spend a night at the breakdown airport BER in Brandenburg after the awkward 1-0 victory at Hertha because the plane was not allowed to take off for the flight to Doha due to a three-minute (!) delay. It may have taken them a good decade longer than planned to complete their capital city airport – but today they seem to be all the more meticulous about punctuality.

Didn’t find the big-headed people from the Bavarian executive suite funny at all – and vented their anger after an uncomfortable night in the machine through their preferred channels: You feel totally ripped off by the “responsible authorities in Brandenburg politics”, said CEO Karl -Heinz Rummenigge announced via “Bild” newspaper. The departure delayed by several hours is “a slapstick, a ridiculous number that someone has worked on, hopefully now sitting at home and should think about it.” That couldn’t be a coincidence, Rummenigge indicated, that Bayern certainly suspected a conspiracy: “You always had the impression that there was someone in Brandenburg who didn’t like FC Bayern or had any problem with FC Bayern and, accordingly, us Put obstacles in the way. ”

Meanwhile, Uli Hoeneß scolded Bayerischer Rundfunk about a “shield bourgeois prank” and a “scandal without end”. When asked about the role of football as a role model in challenging social days, he pointed to an argument of the privileged professional industry that was repeatedly applied alongside professional practice: “In this difficult time,” sports such as football, basketball, handball or ice hockey are “a great change for people the citizens, “said Hoeneß. “That distracts and helps us all to survive this difficult time.” You couldn’t choose the dates, said the 69-year-old about the long-haul trip during the corona lockdown. Scoffers could add at this point: the departure dates apparently also not.

You should see this gate (again)

We can’t decide on one this weekend – and instead recommend two goals: a nice one and a strange one. The nice thing happened in Augsburg, when the Dutchman Wout Weghorst with his remarkable lifter brought VfL Wolfsburg onto the winning road via goalkeeper Gikiewicz and performed all the qualities of a top-class scorer. “How Wout scores the goal is fantastic,” said his coach Oliver Glasner, who was able to look forward to a 2-0 away win for his “Wolves” at FCA.

The strangest goal of the day, if not the season so far, fell in the second division, at the Böllenfalltor in Darmstadt. But you can read more about this under the “picture of the day” …

Match day winner

The Bayer Leverkusen pros were the idiots of football Germany for a few days after their cup defeat at fourth division Rot-Weiß Essen during the week. VfB Stuttgart therefore had to endure the frustration of this embarrassment at 2: 5 under the Bayer cross. That was good, said double-goal scorer Kerem Demirbay afterwards, but hard work will be rewarded in the end: “We will get where we want to go.” Sounds like an announcement to the competition, which now has to be followed by more constant actions by the team of coach Peter Bosz.

What was strange about the victory against VfB was that a key scene from the game against Essen was practically repeated, only with the opposite sign: On Tuesday, the Leverkusen team was wrongly denied a penalty before RWE scored the winning goal. There was no penalty against Stuttgart despite Fosu-Mensah’s arm play (VfB sporting director Sven Mislintat: “That is the clearest, clearest, clearest hand penalty!”). Instead, Bailey made it 3-1 in return.

Game day loser

It was a used weekend for one of the most sought-after coaches of the hour. Even before the explosive derby against 1. FC Köln, Mönchengladbach’s trainer Marco Rose had to deal with “Sky” calf-biter Ecki Heuser, who was always asking insistently about Rose’s future. After Heuser’s third attempt, the 44-year-old, who is hotly traded at Borussia Dortmund, was silent for seconds. “They are silent,” remarked Heuser aptly, and Rose found the language again: “Yes, Ecki, can we get to football now …” Rose’s team didn’t really get into football in the 90 minutes that followed. Borussia’s 2-1 defeat at home is unlikely to have improved his mood.

For FC, on the other hand, there was finally reason to be happy at the end of a chaotic week. After the embarrassing cup bankruptcy in Regensburg, the quarrel about the media director Fritz Esser, who was recalled on the fly, and the pyro spectacle of some fans when the team bus left, the FC professional Dominick Drexler with “Such Spacken!” commented, coach Markus Gisdol spoke of a “very emotional and very valuable win” after the game on the Bökelberg. But the eff-toe is always emotional.

Picture of the game day

Some free-kick variants – like those of Johannes Geis lying on the ground and his 1. FC Nürnberg – look so strange that you would rather advise the protagonist against it on principle. Even more astonishing than this sight at the second division game in Darmstadt was that it did not even remain the strangest scene of the game: After the 1: 1 equalization of the lilies in the 90th minute with a hand penalty, there was one in the third minute of stoppage time wide tee shot from Nuremberg keeper Mathenia, who Darmstadts Rapp wants to head back to his goalkeeper shoes in his own penalty area – and in the process headed the ball over his advanced goalkeeper into his own net. A classic one “Kacktor”, as you normally only get to see in “Zeigler’s wonderful world of football”. For the Nuremberg trainer Robert Klauß, however, in the end it was a gift that, according to his own statement, he could hardly believe afterwards, but: “In the last few weeks we were often the tree, today we were the dog …”

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