Sunday April 25, 2021
“You can’t win like that”
FC anemic Munich
With a weak performance, Bayern Munich awards the first championship match point. A grim captain Manuel Neuer then railed about the unimaginative appearance. Was the lack of will to blame? Now even the sofa title threatens.
Bayern Munich had “only” awarded the first of four championship match balls – but this anemic, unimaginative and erratic appearance went against the grain of Manuel Neuer. “You can’t go into this game like that and win,” criticized the captain after the flattering 1: 2 (0: 2) at FSV Mainz 05, after all the record champions had “decided to do much more”. But the absolute will to make the 31st championship clear ahead of time on their own was completely absent from the Bavarians.
Of course, Munich’s fourth bankruptcy of the season did not provide any reason to panic. The lead over rival RB Leipzig is still huge three game days before the end of the season, the ninth championship in a row is just a matter of form – coach Hansi Flick was still pecked at. The possibility of winning the title on the couch on Sunday “really doesn’t interest him”, said the 56-year-old tight-lipped, “I have to digest the defeat first”. But the sofa master doesn’t really want to become a football professional, on the pitch under one’s own steam there is of course a completely different feeling.
Flick now has a long time to digest, Bayern will not have the next title match ball against Borussia Mönchengladbach for two weeks. Despite the break in play, the coach should by no means calm down, because now the decision to terminate his contract in the summer is pending. You have “two weeks without a game and a lot of time,” said CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge of “Bild am Sonntag”, those responsible would sit down with Flick during the break and hold talks.
“Too little commitment”
“One thing has to be clear: if we are to meet Hansi’s request, all parties must work together to find a solution that FC Bayern is also satisfied with,” said Rummenigge. Flick is the favorite to succeed national coach Joachim Löw, who appropriately followed the Bayern bankruptcy in Mainz in the stadium. The German Football Association (DFB) had repeatedly emphasized that it would not approach a coach with an ongoing contract.
Flick himself did not talk about his professional future after the defeat, he already had “enough work” ahead of him with Bayern. Because the sleepy FCB was played against the wall by relegation candidate Mainz in the first half on Saturday and was still well served with the result. “The body language and our commitment to wanting the ball and playing it out from behind were too little,” complained national goalkeeper Neuer, who himself did not cut a good figure in the early Mainz opening goal by Jonathan Burkardt (3rd). Robin Quaison (37th) increased before the break.
World footballer Robert Lewandowski also remained pale on his comeback after his injury break – the fact that he still scored 36 goals in the hunt for the “eternal” goal record by Gerd Müller (40 goals this season) was only a gift from Mainz defender Alexander Hack (90 + 4) thanks. “It was like that he certainly didn’t stand out from this team,” said Flick of the Pole, then turned his gaze to the future: “We have to tick off the game. We have three games left and we need a win. I’m leaving assume that we will get it. “
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