Thursday, October 28, 2021
“Collective Blackout”
Salihamidzic makes Bayern bankrupt at a loss
With an embarrassing 0: 5, FC Bayern said goodbye to the DFB Cup. What was it? Bayern sports director Salihamdzic finds no explanation. Neither the fuss about Kimmich’s vaccination, nor the Hernández case or the absence of coach Nagelsmann, he accepts.
After the 0-5 defeat in the DFB Cup, Bayern Munich’s sports director Hasan Salihamidzic looked in vain for an explanation. In the ARD, he said he did not want the fuss about national player Joshua Kimmich and world champion Lucas Hernández as an excuse for the historic cup bankruptcy at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Of course there were a lot of stories, said Salihamidzic, but emphasized: “We coped with that in the last few games and performed very well.” In the past few days, Kimmich had been at the center of a heated debate in Germany because he has not yet wanted to be vaccinated against the corona virus. “I can’t associate the vaccination with the fact that we don’t go into one-on-one battles and don’t switch. That has nothing to do with that,” said the sports director.
The Hernández case also had no decisive influence. “With Hernández we hoped and he also knew a little that it wasn’t going to be that bad. That’s why it didn’t bother him. Neither did the whole team,” said Salihamidzic. Hernandez had received good news from Spain that morning. The world champion does not have to go to jail, the Spanish judiciary granted an appeal by the 25-year-old. The six-month prison sentence for domestic violence had already been imposed by a criminal court in Madrid in 2019.
The absence of the coach Julian Nagelsmann, who tested positive for Corona, also did not serve as an explanation for Salihamidzic. “Of course we want the coach to be there. But I think that today had little to do with Dino (Toppmöller). Everything went wrong that could go wrong.” Rather, the Bosnian spoke of a “collective blackout”.
Thomas Müller was also stunned. “I’ve never seen such a collective failure by a Bayern team in such an important game myself, so it’s a bit difficult to grasp at first,” said the German national soccer player on Sky after Munich’s biggest defeat at the DFB Cup. “Throughout the game, we haven’t found the point where Bayern’s anger motor starts.”