The title, the 31st in club history, is the second and last for coach Hansi Flick, who will leave his place on the bench to Julian Nagelsmann next season. It will also be the only trophy this season for the Bavarians, eliminated in the German Cup and the Champions League. Dortmund, the last champion team before Bayern in 2012, will probably not boast of having offered a new title to their historic rivals. But this victory was crucial for Borussia, who can continue to hope to finish in extremis in the top 4, qualifying for the next C1. In the absence of the injured scorer Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho scored twice (51st, 87th), after the opening of the scoring by his captain Marco Reus (7th). For Leipzig, who answered by Lukas Klostermann (63rd) and Dani Olmo (77th), this defeat does notis not dramatic, since the RB remains second with four points ahead of Wolfsburg. Dortmund and Leipzig will meet on Thursday evening in Berlin for the German Cup final (8:45 p.m.).
Lewandowski vs. Gerd Müller
Bayern players will watch the final on TV, trying to stay focused on their last two meetings, in Freiburg and then at home against Augsburg. There remains a collective challenge for them to take up: to help Robert Lewandowski to break the all-time record of 40 goals in a Bundesliga season - which everyone in Germany believed to be eternal - established in 1971-72 by the legendary Gerd Müller, under the Same Bayern shirt. The Pole had scored 35 goals in 26 Bundesliga matches, but an injury at the end of March caused him to miss four matches. He scored again on Matchday 31, and now has only three games left to strike at least four times to tie Müller. "Robert is totally focused and hot for this record", assured Hansi Flick,who succeeded in eighteen months on the bench a historic feat: seven titles, and only eight defeats in 83 matches! His basic men were, of course, captain and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, still among the best in the world despite his 34 years, and Lewandowski.
But in midfield, Joshua Kimmich has become at the age of 26 the centerpiece of the Bavarian squad: a very low defensive midfielder, he is both a fierce recuperator and the launching pad for the attack.
His mental ascendancy over his teammates makes him a natural boss, likely destined to become Neuer's retired captain. Flick has also been able to restore to the elders the confidence lost in recent years: Thomas Müller (10 goals and 18 assists in the Bundesliga) and Jérôme Boateng in central defense were pillars of the title. This season, Bayern has also offered one of those star bickering that has earned the nickname FC Hollywood. Flick fell out publicly with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and gave him a resounding "but you're going to shut up!" in March on the team bus. The same Flick then aroused the fury of his executives by announcing himself, live on Sky at the end of a match, his intention to leave the club at the end of the season,without going to the end of his contract in 2023. Since then, the tension has subsided. Flick is in talks with the German Federation to succeed Joachim Löw as manager. And Nagelsmann is preparing to take up the torch with, as a first goal ... a tenth consecutive title in 2022.
For Bayern has a fifth star
Bayern Munich, crowned German champions on Saturday, will be entitled to wear a fifth star on their jersey next season, having won 30 titles since the creation of the modern Bundesliga in 1963/64. Munich already has 31 titles, but the very first dates back to 1932 and is not selected for the award of stars. In 2005, the German League (DFL) introduced regulations that take into account titles won since the 1963/64 season, the first of the Bundesliga in a single pool. This championship succeeded the final tournament between the winners of the Regional Leagues. The winners are authorized to wear stars on their jerseys according to the following scale: Three titles: one star Five titles: two stars Ten titles: three stars Twenty titles: four stars Thirty titles:five stars Behind Bayern, the competitive sky is clearly less bright, as only Dortmund and Mönchengladbach Bremen have achieved the second star, with five titles each in the modern era. This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.the competition sky is clearly bright months, since only Dortmund and Mönchengladbach Bremen have achieved the second star, with five titles each in the modern era. This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.the competition sky is clearly bright months, since only Dortmund and Mönchengladbach Bremen have achieved the second star, with five titles each in the modern era. This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.since only Dortmund and Mönchengladbach Bremen have achieved the second star, with five titles each in the modern era. This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.since only Dortmund and Mönchengladbach Bremen have achieved the second star, with five titles each in the modern era. This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.This rule made the clubs cringe which had won championships before 1964 or which were champions of the Communist GDR, between 1950 and 1991. The German Federation (DFB), which manages the football from the base until the third division, has therefore completed the regulations of the DFL, by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.by authorizing in its competitions the former champions to wear a star, with a number indicating the number of titles in the center of the star. The teams playing in Bundesliga 1 and 2, which depend on the League, are not, however, entitled to wear this historic star.
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