Football – the dark red thread of FC Bayern Munich

The technobeats that have been hammering all Wednesday evening torture Bayern even when moving out of Rotterdam’s stadium de Kuip. While Feyenoord’s players celebrated their fans for the Gabber sound, the Munich trotted after their 0: 3 defeat in the goose march with reduced skipts through the constant rain into the cabin aisle.

The fact that the team of coach Vincent Kompany acted very superiorly and accumulated a total of 30 goal shots and 80 percent possession of the ball made the most likely missed qualification for the round of 16 of the Champions League. “We have to attribute this to ourselves,” goalkeeper Manuel Neuer realized that one was not present, cold -hearted and balium enough on the offensive and defensive in the crucial situations.

Joshua Kimmich’s analysis was even more sharp, especially since he made her calmly and did not let her speak frustration, but facts. The “absolutely deserved” third away defeat after that at Aston Villa and in Barcelona Sage together with table 15 that we are currently not a top team in Europe. ” Kimmich supported his judgment with the record of only twelve points from seven games. “If you make so many mistakes and lose so many games, you are of course not a top team,” the captain of the national team was annoyed. One is “not ripe and ripped off enough” and now “in a very, very bad situation”.

The additional two playoff games in February should hardly be avoided now, despite the almost safe home win against the blatant outsider Bratislava on the last matchday next Wednesday. The Munich team had traveled to Rotterdam with a victory to keep further stress in their tight schedule. Quite apart from the fact that Playoff games can always go wrong, which would destroy the hope of the “title Dahoam” formulated by CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen very early on May 31 in Munich.

Sports board member Max Eberl therefore spoke of a “right blow on the nose” and Kimmich came to the sobering: “We did not pass the exam.” A recurring pattern runs through this season like a dark red thread. Bayern play very dominant, but often generate no or too low yield in important games. That was twice against Leverkusen in the 1-1 in the league and the 0: 1 outlet in the DFB Cup, in Frankfurt (3: 3), in Dortmund (1: 1) and shortly before Christmas even in Mainz (1: 2). “After the two defeats in Birmingham (at Aston Villa, D. Red.) And Barcelona, ​​we gave ourselves on the right track, which was suddenly destroyed today,” said Eberl. Only on Schalke against Schachtar Donetsk did Bavaria achieve an away win in the Champions League.

In Rotterdam, too, the second was not added because Bayern did not exploit their chances. But above all, it was because Feyenoord only played on counterattack from the first second and, with this simple pattern, mercilessly came to his three goals – favored by individual dropouts on the Munich defensive. As so often this season, the familiar principle in Rotterdam was in all three goals: counterattack, mistake, in it.

Before the 0: 1 by Santiago Giménez, the long pass was not prevented before Min-Jae Kim hit the ball (21st). Before the 0: 2 by penalty from Giménez (45.+9), the just substituted Raphaël Guerreiro first caught the ball in order to then imagine it too far and thoughtlessly to put a leg from behind the Calvin Stengs running from the penalty area. Before Ayase Uedas 0: 3 six Bavaria could also be countered by three hosts (89th). Especially in the Champions League, it is about “offering as little mistakes as possible,” said Kimmich, referring to Real Madrid record title. His demand: “We have to develop as a team and everyone individually as soon as possible.”

Kimmich believes that the fundamental debate guided in the first half of the season via the risky way of playing with the very high defense is wrong. Everyone realizes that it was not in the style, he said, and it was even “better that you make an individual mistake than when we question the whole system”. But you can also see it like this: the risk style makes mistakes more likely if the opponents can better exhort their counterattacks and increase the pressure to act on Bavaria’s defensive. If something goes wrong, it may soon be said: counterattack, error, excreted.