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Without a word, Robert Lewandowski stomped out of the cabin to the crew bus. When does this slump finally come to an end? The striker of Bayern just does not meet, now for 85 minutes.
Hasan Salihamidzic would probably have started a text about the cup match that Bayern had won in the second division VfL Bochum only in the final sequences (2: 1). Finally, the sports director of the Munich after the game said that an analysis "without irony is not today". Sarcasm but it hit better. We played it, was good, really good, "Salihamidzic etched against a team that had actually done a lot wrong, but in the end still had turned the game.
Without Lewandowski it is not even against Bochum
Without irony Bayern had to realize that it is not possible without Lewandowski. Not even against VfL Bochum, the table-16. the second league. Niko Kovac had attempted to put the striker on the bench, who had previously scored 19 goals in 13 competitive games, in each case at least one. At the break, however, the Bayern coach had become so queasy because of the backlog and the playful poverty that he broke off the experiment. Although Lewandowski did not score a goal, the Pole showed that he has much more value for a team than scoring in the penalty area.
Lewandowski is one that is also needed for combinations, for ball security, for time gains, so that the colleagues can move up. In the 83rd minute, he moved from the top back to the position of the tenth. There he took a sharp flat pass from Jérôme Boateng, recognized the large room on the right. From there came also the cross of Joshua Kimmich, Serge Gnabry used to 1: 1.
Thomas Müller, also a substitute, scored against terribly tired and decimated after a red card Bochum still in rule time the 2: 1. At least Bayern could have smiled tiredly. But the departure of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeneß from the grandstand already revealed that there would be a frosty gleaning.
Neither the chairman of the board nor the president spoke, but other protagonists scourged each other. "It was not in the first half as it is in the Cup," said Manuel Neuer. The goalkeeper and captain had already during the laborious 2: 1 against the 1st FC Union Berlin publicly impacted the colleagues together. In the frustration, but also bewildered mingled: "We just have to bring better performance," said Neuer.
Leon Goretzka answered the question, whether it was "Bayern-dumb or ultimately only embarrassing": "both". Born in Bochum spoke of a "slick performance", "an incredible number of mistakes in passing game" and that "we have a certain hardness in the duel have miss."
Kovac criticizes the attitude
Relentless was also the criticism of Kovac. The coach complained of a "failing passfestival": "We did a lot of things wrong in the first 60 to 70 minutes, after all everyone played like we do not actually play."
It was not so easy to spot Kovac as Hasan Salihamidzic, if he too was irony. Following the praise of coach Thomas Reis, who built VfL "uniquely" after their bad performance at Kiel in 1: 2, Kovac added: "You can see that it works when everyone does what the coach says . "
This probably implied that his players had disobeyed his instructions. The warning that an opponent, who has little more than passion to offer, is to oppose passion, defeated the pros of Bayern in any case in the wind. This happened more often this season. Coupled with the honest and pragmatic football, there are therefore latent doubts as to whether Niko Kovac is the right coach for the champion.
"This has nothing to do with tactics, but with the attitude," Kovac said about his team's weak play. That was a clearly worded reproach to his players. On Saturday, the schedule brings a reunion with his former club Eintracht Frankfurt. Kovac said, "It's going to be a tough game, they're the best fans in the league, you have to be very clear about that." Not everyone likes to hear that at Bayern.
VfL Bochum - Bayern Munich 1: 2 (1: 0)
1: 0 Davies (36th, own goal)
1: 1 Gnabry (83.)
1: 2 T. Müller (89.)
Bochum: Riemann - Celozzi, Decarli, Bella Kotchap, Danilo - Losilla, Tesche, Zoller (78th Osei Tutu), Lee (66th Wintzheimer), Blum - Ganvoula
Munich: New - Kimmich, Pavard, Boateng, Davies - Tolisso (65th T. Müller), Goretzka (57th Coutinho), Thiago, Coman, Perisic (46th Lewandowski) - Gnabry
Referee: Schröder
Yellow cards: Lee, Losilla
Red card: - / Bella-Kotchap
Spectators: 26,600 (sold out)