Goretzka has to go down, but …: Kimmich pissed off junk trading


Goretzka has to go down, but …
Junk swapping makes Kimmich pissed off

Joshua Kimmich is not a quiet representative on the football field. But you rarely see the Bayern professional in such a rage. Leon Goretzka has to be replaced with an injury in the game against Paris St. Germain, but that is going far too slowly for his colleague and he loudly makes his anger heard.

Joshua Kimmich was in a rage: For Bayern, things didn’t go according to plan in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Paris St. Germain. After 28 minutes it was already 0-2 thanks to goals from Kylian Mbappé (3rd) and Marquinhos. Reason enough actually to be extremely upset about your own team.

But Kimmich had something else to complain about. Before a corner kick from Paris, Leon Goretzka discreetly drew his coach Hansi Flick’s attention to the fact that he had to be replaced. The midfielder was injured – apparently on the groin. But then many minutes passed, too many for Kimmich’s taste.

Minutes in which Jérôme Boateng warmed himself up, because it was too cold in the snow-covered Allianz Arena for a spontaneous substitution. Then Boateng got dressed again. Flick had changed his mind and wanted to bring Alphonso Davies instead.

“We’ve been playing with one less for five minutes, man!”, Kimmich complained loudly in the direction of the bank and then pushed after him: “I don’t think so, honestly.” Only in the 33rd minute was there a substitution. Too long a back and forth for the national player.

Flick justifies delay

But Flick said after the game: “The reaction was not late. The point is that you also have to warm up. We wanted to bring Jérôme in first, then we decided on Alphonso Davies. Alphonso was ready relatively quickly, that’s why we get the change over the stage a little faster. It was a consideration to have speed on the wing again. That was positive for us. “

With the substitution of Davies, Lucas Hernández dodged inside, Alaba was ordered into defensive midfield and Kimmich continued to be the game designer. And preparer for the 1: 2 goal from Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting just four minutes after the substitution hiccup (37th). But even the drive of the leader was not enough. The game ended – with the painful absence of Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry, who tested positive for Corona – with a ludicrous 2: 3 bankruptcy. “We have to make more goals,” complained Thomas Müller at Sky. “That’s the way it is now, now we have to run after the deficit.”

A deficit that they will have to turn around without Lewandowski (and probably without Gnabry). Because the Polish top scorer will also be missing in the second leg: “No, that’s still too early,” said the striker on Sky about the game on April 13th. It is also questionable whether Goretzka can be in the second leg. After the final whistle, Flick reported “muscular problems” with the 26-year-old as well as with defender Niklas Süle, who was also injured. He does not yet know “how long they will be out”.

Kimmich won’t like that.

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