“My Bayern” is the name of the column by SPORT BILD reporter legend Raimund Hinko, which deals with the German record champions. Hinko has been with Munich for decades.
Dear Bayern fans,
Of course you don’t have to say goodbye to all your dreams after the embarrassing 4-2 defeat in Bochum. Bayern can still become champions. And theoretically also Champions League winners. However, I now see things more critically. Bayern must be very careful not to go further down the drain against SpVgg Fürth on Saturday. Yes, Fürth suddenly discovered scoring in the second half of the season. And also on Wednesday in Salzburg, which knocked out second-placed Spanish team FC Sevilla, making it into the quarter-finals of the Champions League is by no means a sure-fire success.
Neither Fürth nor Salzburg have to fear the anger of Bayern, who always made their next opponents suffer terribly after defeats. FC Bayern is now sick. Not seriously ill. However, signs of some decay cannot be overlooked. If you lose 0:5 in Gladbach and 1:2 in your own stadium, plus 1:2 each against Augsburg and Frankfurt, that can perhaps still be explained. But if you don’t put up any obvious resistance in Bochum in the second half, even though you still had the full 45 minutes to do so… yes, those are alarm signals. That makes you think. That’s why Joshua Kimmich spoke of mentality problems out of the blue…
Even in the great 70s, not everything was good. But I was there in Bochum in 1976 when Bayern were 4-0 down after 53 minutes. As reigning European Cup winner of the national champions. And then the team coached by Dettmar Cramer, who had been overplayed at the time, rebelled against the eleven of “Tiger” Hermann Gerland, who was playing defender for Bochum at the time. So irresistible that after goals from Uli Hoeneß (2), Gerd Müller (2), Katsche Schwarzenbeck (Süle, Hernandez, please copy!) and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge it was 6:5 for Bayern. After a race to catch up that still holds all records to this day. At Frankfurt Airport, where you had to stop over on the return trip, Sepp Maier and Franz Beckenbauer transformed the cafeteria into a party mile, corks flew, the tap didn’t get a break, manager Robert Schwan, who had to foot the bill, raged. Yes, Bayern were still able to celebrate after three European Cup victories in a row. Although they were only seventh at the end of the season. Or just because of that.
All the pundits who cried out that FC Bayern bought RB Leipzig to pieces need to reconsider their point of view. Dayot Upamecano, costing well over 40 million, cost Bayern not only a lot of money but also a number of points. Marcel Sabitzer is only a shadow of himself so far (why did he come on after 75 minutes for the prolific, dribbling Kingsley Coman?). Leipzig is now playing stronger than ever under new coach Domenico Tedesco. And Julian Nagelsmann?
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Ripe taunts towards Munich
“Mia san Mia – then there are four”
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I’m not a big fan of the former Oliver Kahn competitor Jens Lehmann. But a few remarks on BILD-TV in the show “Die Lage der Liga” gave me a hard time thinking. Lehmann said that the coach was very young at 34, had setbacks in Leipzig and had never played top-class football himself.
So it’s fitting that Nagelsmann, previously surprisingly confident and refreshing as a Bayern coach, admitted to making mistakes in Bochum. It doesn’t matter whether it was a mistake to have switched from a back three to a back four – the constant alternation annoys the team. Joshua Kimmich is better served when he has a second six next to him. If not next to Leon Goretzka, who has been injured for a long time and is missed as badly as Alphonso Davies, who has been ill for a long time (heart muscle inflammation), then rather next to Corentin Tolisso. Leroy Sane, who has already made very good games this season, is too much on the offensive together with Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman, in a team in which Thomas Müller also draws his circles. One just takes up space for the other. Also against Salzburg and Fürth. A defensive player is worth more to the offensive than too many strikers.
Nobody wants to blame substitute goalkeeper Sven Ulreich for mistakes against Gladbach and Bochum. However, the suspicion remains that Bochum would have been less willing to shoot against Manuel Neuer (meniscus operation). And then there is still the suspicion that Borussia Dortmund has succeeded in causing unrest in the already fragile Bayern defense with the transfer of Niklas Süle (on July 1st).
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Bochum – Bayern 4:2
Bochum’s stadium party against Bayern!
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Nagelsmann must make every effort to ensure that sports director Hasan Brazzo Salihamidzic finally finds a right-back after years of searching (that with Benjamin Pavard, and certainly with other solutions, is simply too poor). And possibly also one for the middle.
The bottom line for Julian Nagelsmann is that the season only starts this week. Only six points ahead of BVB. Get out of the cup. And soon also from the Champions League?
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