This is a comb they won’t soon forget. Traveling on the pitch of Eintracht Frankfurt, the Bayern Munich players sank as rarely on Saturday afternoon, beaten 5 goals to 1 during the 14th day, thus conceding their first defeat of the season in the championship. Germany, the heaviest in the Bundesliga for more than four years. The former Paris Saint-Germain player, Junior Dina Ebimbe, particularly showed his advantage by scoring a double.
With 32 points in 13 matches played, Thomas Tuchel’s men are three points behind Bayer Leverkusen, Bundesliga leader who travels to Stuttgart on Sunday (3:30 p.m.). Only Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen remains undefeated in the Bundesliga this season. The “Werkself” (the “factory eleven”, nickname of the club team founded in 1904 by the chemist Bayer) has the opportunity to escape with a six-point lead in the event of a victory on Sunday against the Swabian club.
A bad habit against Frankfurt
It’s been more than four years since Bayern suffered such a heavy defeat in the German championship. On November 2, 2019, Bayern lost 5 to 1, and the time was already in Frankfurt. At the end of October 2021, Bayern left the German Cup in the round of 16, corrected 5-0 by Borussia Mönchengladbach.