Modeste scores with the final whistle
FC Bayern dramatically handed over the classic victory
10/08/2022, 8:29 p.m
For a long time, almost until the final whistle, FC Bayern looks like the winner of the top game of the 9th match day of the Bundesliga against Borussia Dortmund. Then a wild final phase begins, whose main actor Anthony Modeste will not forget this evening: First the striker forgives in front of the empty goal, but then he still scores.
Oliver Kahn angrily threw his arms back in the stands and pounded on the barrier when Anthony Modeste finally managed to pull off the bang after a difficult few weeks in the BVB jersey. The ex-Cologne player, who had done so little since moving, shocked FC Bayern Munich with his equalizing goal to make it 2-2 (0-1) in the very last second. “Modeste, Modeste, Anthony Modeste” rang out from the Dortmund ranks like in FC times, and the Frenchman celebrated his best BVB performance with his children on the pitch. With the unexpected comeback in the league hit, BVB messed up the at least temporary jump to the top of the table for their big rival from Munich.
“I’m here, a big club. We play in the Champions League. Everything is positive for me. Of course, my move was very, very difficult. I got a lot on the cover. (…) But I have to be positive stay and think of me,” said Modeste on the Sky TV channel and received extra praise from coach Edin Terzic: “Tony was also instrumental in the first goal. That was excellent. Not only Tony was happy, the whole team, the whole stadium gave it to him.”
Nagelsmann quarrels with the referee
The only 17-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko (74) brought BVB back into play on a template from Modeste. Then the Frenchman was there (90+5). BVB thus averted the eighth league defeat in a row against the series champion. With goals from Leon Goretzka (33rd) and Leroy Sané (53rd), he had already looked like the sure winner. Curious: Both scorers were born in the Ruhr area, as a former Schalke player, games against Dortmund have always been special for them.
“In the end it’s a fair result. We didn’t put enough pressure on it once. It hurts, of course, but it’s not completely unfair,” said Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann, who was upset that Dortmund’s Jew Bellingham was kicked against Alphonso Davies didn’t see a red card to his head. “There’s not much to discuss about that. He kicks him in the face full cannon. That’s not yellow, that’s a red card.” Referee Deniz Aytekin had rated the action as unintentional. Davies was taken to hospital with a suspected concussion. In addition, Matthijs de Ligt, who grabbed his thigh, had to be replaced injured. Nagelsmann spoke of adductor problems. Kingsley Coman, who saw the yellow and red card in the final minute (90th) for repeated foul play, will certainly be out in the next game.
As expected, Mats Hummels was fit after his cold and was also in Dortmund’s starting XI, but none of the national defenders Nico Schlotterbeck and Niklas Süle had to give way for him. BVB played with a back four, Süle, who came from Munich in the summer, played right-back. At Bayern, Joshua Kimmich made it into the squad after surviving the corona infection, but not into the starting XI. Then he came to the break.
Referee Aytekin, who comes from the state of Bavaria, but more precisely from Franconia, and who has also refereed a few Bayern games before, tried to nip all the typical nicknames of this duel in the bud. Contrary to his otherwise rather generous and communicative manner, he showed the first yellow card against Marcel Sabitzer from Munich after just 85 seconds. But the referee put himself under pressure. After 13 minutes he had already issued three warnings. But that’s not the only reason why the game got off to a bad start in front of 81,365 spectators.
decision at the last second
Both teams seemed nervous, or at least tense. The game was intense, but both teams didn’t take too many risks and often played too imprecisely at crucial moments. Bayern got their first corner kick after 17 minutes, and Dortmund’s Donyell Malen got the first shot on goal four minutes later. Raphael Guerreiro had the first chance for BVB, whose diagonal shot from 18 meters out was saved by Manuel Neuer (30′). Then the people of Munich had their first one – and used it cold. Malen and Salih Özcan attacked Goretzka too timidly and hit the target with a well-placed low shot from 18 meters.
At the break, Terzic ended the experiment with the three regular central defenders. Hummels left the field, Marius Wolf was at least a practiced right-back who also had BVB’s best chance up to that point (47′). Bayern coach Nagelsmann made three changes at the break, taking out the hapless striker Serge Gnabry and ordering Sadio Mané right up front. The Senegalese also had a huge chance, but headed wide of the empty goal from eight yards out (49′). Two minutes later, the strong Sané made it 2-0. This clarified the balance of power.
But BVB didn’t give up. Terzic brought on striker Modeste, which paid off. The ex-Cologne player played the ball to Moukoko just five minutes after being brought in, who gave Neuer no chance with a well-placed shot. And shortly afterwards Modeste had a huge chance to equalize when he didn’t hit the ball properly from close range (83′). But he did it better in the very last action with his head.