Monday, November 8th, 2021
Rummenigge pokes at BVB
Bavaria should “dust off the championship trophy”
After the 11th game day of the Bundesliga, FC Bayern has long been at the top again – and since the weekend the competition has not even been within striking distance. In Munich there is already great conviction that you can slowly prepare for the tenth championship celebration in a row.
For Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the tenth championship of Bayern Munich in a row is already in sight. “Dortmund has lost again, now we can slowly dust off the championship trophy,” said the long-time chief executive of the German soccer record champions of the “Bild” newspaper.
After the 1: 2 in Leipzig, BVB are four points behind Bayern. Borussia are also hungry for the title, said Rummenigge, but the decisive factor is “always the quality on the pitch, and Bavaria is simply one step ahead at the moment. And the coach is also a great fit for Bayern.”
In fact, the numbers speak in favor of Julian Nagelsmann’s team: The Munich team last gambled away such a lead in the 2011/12 season – Dortmund won the championship for the last time so far. Rummenigge calls the dominance of Munich “not very refreshing, especially for non-Bayern fans”. But he also emphasized: “Our job is still to become champions.”
At Borussia Dortmund, since the bankruptcy in Leipzig, no-longer-quite-so-pursuer of FC Bayern, the emotional situation is actually as expected from Rummenigge: “We didn’t manage to be on an equal footing. In the aggressiveness, in the game opening. Overall that was too little, “scolded BVB captain Marco Reus after the defeat at Sky. He was not disillusioned, emphasized the angry attacking player, no: His statements were “the truth. We just don’t deserve it.” In any case, the team, plagued by numerous failures, is currently not ready for the title.
After all: They have the DFB Cup in Dortmund and, unlike FC Bayern, they are still represented in the competition. After the second second round in a row (in 2020 the record cup winner flew out against the second division Holstein Kiel, most recently there was a historic 0-5 swat against Borussia Mönchengladbach), the trophy remains unattainable for the FC Bayern cleaning teams.