Football-2-2 gives Bayern hope, Dortmund needs a “football miracle”

Thomas Müller often has to tell about how he keeps it with the past as a footballer. So that he does not deal so much with it, but rather with what lies ahead of him and FC Bayern. This has to do not only with the special situation of the oldest-serving Munich player, with the not entirely fine way of the upcoming separation and its loyalty, but also with a football wisdom. The phrase of the next game, which is always the most important thing, would never use Müller, but probably not denied that it is often so.

BVB needs miracles

For FC Bayern, this applies to the quarter-final second leg in the Champions League near Inter Milan next Wednesday, but for Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, after the 0: 4 defeat in the first duel with FC Barcelona, ​​at least not quite as much. For the Westphalia, the game on Saturday was of greater importance than the impending against the Catalans. In the Bundesliga, the chances of a new starting place in the Champions League are still realistic-much more realistic than a semi-finals in the premier class, which would be “the largest football wonder in Borussia Dortmund” for managing director Lars Ricken. For the national season goal, however, the 2-2 was “too little” in the duel with the league leader if we see where we are, “said captain Emre Can.

In the Bundesliga, there have been six from a five points behind in fourth place. But the reaction after the appearance in Barcelona gives the Dortmund hope. Not necessarily for the game on Tuesday evening against Barcelona, ​​but for the rest of the season. Trainer Niko Kovac “found the right words and showed us what went wrong and what the benchmark has to be,” said Can. The scale was the performance against Munich in the second half, in which Maximilian Beier first took the lead and then when the game was over, Waldemar Anton still scored to equalize.

One day less

On the other hand, thanks to the Leverkusen draw against the 1st FC Union Berlin, everything remained in the title fight. And also Müller represents another thesis. FC Bayern had come a little closer to the championship with the point win, he said. Because the pursuer now has one game less for catching up.

The Munich team did not deal so much with the table situation on Saturday, but they targeted what has been creating them for a few weeks: efficiency in front of the goal. And then he was allowed to look back. For the third time in a row, the Munich team had fallen behind after they had previously left the best chances themselves. “We do not reward ourselves and are punished with the opponent’s first action,” said sports director Max Eberl, who, above all, “gives the way we play football”, gives hope for the Champions League, which can still turn 1: 2 from the first leg in Milan.

The better team

As in Augsburg and against Milan, the Munich team also came back against Dortmund – through the goals of Raphael Guerreiro and Serge Gnabry. But in the end they won only one of the three games because they also allow themselves too many negligence in defense. “We are almost always the better team, which annoys me most. We have to become an adult, «said Joshua Kimmich. If this is quick, an early goal in Milan, he is certain, “the game can also run in our direction.” Kimmich knows: “It’s not that we need a miracle.” Unlike Dortmund against Barcelona.