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Joshua Kimmich stunned after another goal
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An almost empty FC Bayern fan block, although the game is not over yet: When did that happen before?
"We're the ones who always celebrate," they like to sing, and mostly for good reason.
But there is also a "pitch black day", as Dino Toppmöller said, who represented the head coach Julian Nagelsmann, who was infected with the corona virus, again at the Munich bank on Tuesday evening in Mönchengladbach.
Thomas Müller said on the pay TV broadcaster Sky: "I've never seen a collective failure of a Bayern team in such an important game myself, that's why it's difficult to grasp at first." the record cup winner said goodbye to the competition.
Most recently, the Munich team was presented as a shining example when Borussia Dortmund was shown in the Champions League 0: 4 at Ajax Amsterdam.
That would certainly not happen to FC Bayern with Joshua Kimmich as spokesman.
A week later, however, it happened to Bayern.
The photo of the scoreboard showing Borussia Mönchengladbach's 5-0 victory against Bayern should soon appear as the background for many Gladbach fans.
"It was an almost perfect game for us," enthused coach Adi Hütter: "I can't remember seeing something as good as in the first 20 minutes from one of my teams."
Gladbach striker Breel Embolo scored two goals and was involved in the other three.
He presented Bayern, especially the two central defenders Dayot Upamecano and Lucas Hernández.
"The whole thing took on a dynamic in the course of the game," said Toppmöller when asked about the duo. Their performance was miserable, for the substitute coach it was "not so easy to explain".
In the case of Hernández, however, one suspicion was obvious.
The morning before the game it became known that the French world champions had success in an appeal process.
As previously ordered by a court, he does not have to go to jail for six months for disregarding justice.
The sentence was suspended for four years and he also has to pay a comparatively small sum of money.
Did the trial have any impact on Hernández and the team?
And also Joshua Kimmich's refusal to vaccinate, which has recently been much discussed?
Even the former club bosses, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeneß, got involved in the subject.
In the ARD interview after the final whistle, sports director Hasan Salihamidžić denied a connection.
Hernández was signed by FC Bayern in 2019.
The transfer fee of 80 million euros to be paid to Atlético Madrid at the time is the highest that a Bundesliga club has ever shelled out.
With the evening of Gladbach one has to doubt whether he will ever do justice to this sum.
Hernández lost tackles like a lower-class professional, some he avoided, sometimes he was too low, sometimes too far away from the opponent.
This also applied to Upamecano, where downward swings could be observed more frequently.
His achievements alternated with those, because of which he was also called "Supermecano".
The defense was particularly in focus that evening - in the end it was the offensive that seemed to solve every problem Bayern had immediately.
Robert Lewandowski and Co. scored 33 goals in nine Bundesliga games, a record, but that evening the attackers were signed off.
Can you attack them?
And so it turned out to be an evening of defense, and she failed the test.
In Gladbach, Upamecano was taken off the field after 55 minutes, while Hernández was moved to the left end of the back four in the course of the second half.
Evenings like this raise the question of whether Bayern can be dealt with in the Bundesliga after all, as it was after the 1: 2 against Eintracht Frankfurt at the beginning of October.
This was followed by a 5: 1 at Bayer Leverkusen, a 4: 0 in the Champions League at Benfica and a 4: 0 against TSG Hoffenheim.
One cannot speak of a sporting crisis.
The Bayern in the DFB Cup, as in the previous season (at that time with the second division Holstein Kiel on penalties) in the second round, could be rather bad for the competition in the league.
More rest, more training, more time for tactical preparation - the Munich team will not have wanted that, but will probably use it in their favor.
There is little time until the next game on Saturday against 1. FC Union Berlin, but Dino Toppmöller has already announced: "We have to show a reaction and it will certainly come."
