In Dortmund, before the upcoming hit once morest soccer series champions Bayern Munich, people are already dreaming of taking off their lederhosen. The 6-1 Schützenfest once morest Cologne on Saturday lifted BVB to first place, past the stumbling Bayern, who had a heavy stomach following the 2-1 draw at Leverkusen on Sunday. “We definitely have to win, otherwise it will be difficult to win the championship,” warned coach Julian Nagelsmann with regard to the cracker on April 1st.
Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic was beside himself. “It wasn’t what Bayern Munich means,” he complained. “We missed everything. We let ourselves be overwhelmed by a team that was still playing on Thursday.” Salihamidzic found the reason for the defeat in the attitude: “I’ve rarely experienced so little drive, so little mentality, so little duel, so little assertiveness.”
The starting position for the “banger game” once morest BVB, said captain Thomas Müller at DAZN, “of course we imagined it differently, that’s logical”. Against Leverkusen, his team “unfortunately showed little of what made us strong in the last few games,” criticized Müller: “We have to ask ourselves a few questions.” Kimmich said: “I don’t see anything positive in the game today.”
The most recent development can only be good for the neutral observer, for the first time in years there is a real top duel, the throne of the sole ruler is shaking. This fuels the hope for BVB captain Marco Reus that his team in Munich will not go down without a chance following sometimes crushing defeats in the last eight league duels with a shameful goal difference of 6:33: “In two weeks we have a really great game before the Chest. Hopefully we’ll be ready.” Defender Marius Wolf put it less diplomatically: “We know what’s at stake following the international break. We’ll go to Munich to win there.”
Oliver Glasner would love to win once more. The coach was without a win for six competitive games in a row following the 2-0 loss at Union Berlin on Sunday. After the end of the Champions League at SSC Napoli, a crisis is also looming in the league. “You might also play 0-0, but we don’t,” said the Upper Austrian tight-lipped regarding his team’s poor performance and left the press conference room following just a few statements. “We should have gotten three more.”
In addition to the current sporting misery, there were recently reports of differences of opinion between Glasner and sports director Markus Krösche. Glasner rejected this before the game: “The club made me an offer to extend my contract. He wouldn’t do it if it didn’t fit between Markus and me. I wouldn’t think regarding it either. If I extend, then Markus is a Reason for that because we have the same vision with Eintracht.”
