No real chance to score, 18 touches of the ball for Harry Kane – and no one who wants to “gamble” football: FC Bayern looks like a team that has forgotten the core of the game after losing 3-0 in Leverkusen.
Maybe Eric Dier briefly wondered what he had gotten himself into. The last minutes of the first half of this memorable game between FC Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen were underway when the English central defender, who moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Munich in the winter, took the ball in his own half. Dier, the central man in a three-man chain on Saturday evening, and thus a sometimes pitiful representative for the game structure, was looking for a play station. He searched. And waited. Until at some point, what felt like only a few seconds, someone offered to take a random pass.