FC Bayern interprets the 1-0 win at Manchester United as a successful reaction to the 1-5 loss in Frankfurt. Some of the professionals who particularly needed it after the debacle at the weekend also received praise.
If you read it correctly from a distance, Harry Kane looked a little confused. But who could blame him? The captain of the English national team had returned to his home country for the first time as a footballer for FC Bayern, to the venerable Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, and now he was jumping around in front of the visitors’ block, probably humming along to songs that he was probably not that familiar with are. “Europapokaaal,” sang the Munich fans, “P” and vowels alternating as quickly as Franz Beckenbauer used to when he pronounced “Jean-Pierre Papin” like “Schapapapa.” The fans also chanted: “We want red and white jerseys!” Kane clapped and jumped along.