Thomas Müller was clearly struggling to maintain composure: The 2014 world champion is actually used to success and has won the most important trophies in his career. For the time being, there will be no further triumph in the DFB Cup for the star of FC Bayern Munich after his team’s 5-0 debacle at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The otherwise dominant FCB was played against the wall by the hosts on Wednesday evening and was eliminated in the second round. A shock for the Bayern professionals – and especially for Müller: “Such a collective failure by a Bayern team in such an important game, I have never seen a knockout game,” said the 32-year-old after the game at Sky firmly – and, as before, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic spoke relentlessly plain text.
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“Difficult to grasp” is the highest cup defeat in the history of FC Bayern’s club, admitted Müller and at the same time gave all critics a carte blanche: “You can start as you want! We have no argument at all. You can take anything you want. We have to face it. You can question everything today and you are always right”. The record cup winners Bayern had no chance from the start and deservedly had to admit defeat to their old rivals for the first time in the national cup. “If you except Manu (Neuer), whom we left alone, it was a catastrophic performance from everyone involved who played today,” said Müller.
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Basically, said Müller, the team was disappointed with their own performance: “We can only apologize to the fans who were here and crossed our fingers in front of the television screens.” At the same time, the Bayern leader looked ahead. “We have to tick that off. We don’t have much time, it will continue on Saturday in Berlin. But I haven’t had a situation like this either.” Müller also responded to the debacle in Gladbach shortly after midnight via Instagram. The international wrote: “I’m still speechless. That was definitely not ‘Bavarian-like’. We have to apologize to all of our fans and supporters. Even so, we have to take it as professionally as possible and get all that negative stuff out of our heads by Saturday. Congratulations to Gladbach. “The people of Munich will compete on Saturday (3:30 p.m., Sky) in the Bundesliga at 1. FC Union Berlin.
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