FC Bayern – Schludrig, piqued, plagued: The big problems after the cracker against Borussia Dortmund

Andreas Morbach reports from the Signal Iduna Park

It was cheerful singing that sounded into the night from the beer and sausage stands in front of the Dortmund Arena at just after half past nine on Saturday evening.

And at the same time he made sure that the people of Munich drove to the airport under the almost full moon with a bag full of problems.

The Bavarians have lost their famous winning gene more often this season, but the fatal final in Dortmund was particularly painful for them.

Goretzka struggles after a draw: “It’s annoying”

“When Bayern lead 2-0, they usually score the third, fourth and fifth goal – that didn’t happen today,” Borussia coach Edin Terzic put his finger deep into the Munich wound. Because one’s own usury of chances is a flaw, which the serial champion of the past decade still hasn’t taken halfway through the preliminary round.

“Yes, it’s possible that we were too sure. But a 2-0 lead is a dangerous one, you actually know that. And we didn’t play against just any team,” complained midfielder Leon Goretzka.

The former Schalke player, who gave the guests a somewhat flattering lead before the break, “couldn’t put his anger into words” – and therefore only said: “It’s annoying.”

Central defender problem threatens Bayern

Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer got to the bottom of the matter a little more, described the Munich offensive as “simply too sloppy”, “not goal-oriented enough in the end” – and groaned in despair: “I don’t understand how we could give it away. They were quite clear two lost points.” And that’s not all. Because there was also bad news from the FCB defensive department.

Left-back Alphonso Davies, hit in the face “full pot” (Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann) by Borussia’s mega-talent Jude Bellingham shortly before the break, had to be taken to the hospital with suspected concussion. Another bad news for the defending champion – it was recently unclear how long Frenchman Lucas Hernández will be missing in the defense headquarters.

The 2018 World Champion tore a muscle bundle in the adductor area of ​​his left thigh in mid-September in the Champions League game against FC Barcelona. “It’s a stupid place where the healing process takes a while,” reported Nagelsmann before the business trip to Dortmund – where he then took central defender Matthijs de Ligt off after just over an hour.

He later reported that the Dutchman had slight problems in the adductor area. So De Ligt’s substitution was also a precautionary measure. Because, according to Nagelsmann: “We don’t have that many central defenders at the moment. If another one gets injured, I don’t have one anymore.”

Angry CEO

Bayern have only won one of their last six Bundesliga games. “We have to get going quickly now,” Kahn demanded accordingly. An unmistakable appeal to the team and its coach, who were negligent in scoring and preventing goals – who was also asked about the recent comments by Kahn’s predecessor Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in Dortmund .

Nagelsmann had described last week as a “great coaching talent” – and as a “very young” coach who “of course also had to gain experience”. In his eyes, such and similar comments made “definitely too many” at the moment, the 35-year-old trainer now clearly piqued. How does he intend to deal with it? “Just like in the last few months,” smiled Julian Nagelsmann – and followed it slightly snippy: “My life has even more components.”