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Joshua Kimmich: Penalty fault, became champion
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All ten:
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If you haven't miscounted, you've reached ten titles that Bayern have now won in a row.
They celebrated the anniversary championship in a duel with their so-called rivals, Borussia Dortmund.
More symbolism is hardly possible.
The result:
Bayern won 3-1 (2-0).
This is a game report.
The champion and the celebration:
Championships are routine for Bayern, but for their coach the first beer shower of his professional career was on the agenda.
Julian Nagelsmann got it from Benjamin Pavard, and he landed a direct hit.
Shortly thereafter, the celebration T-shirts appeared, the fans sang, the players danced, and new beer tankards were constantly being delivered.
You don't have to spoil Bayern's happiness, they deserve it.
But in the meantime one is too used to these pictures.
The first half:
BVB was unscathed for a quarter of an hour, then Serge Gnabry scored.
Robert Lewandowski made it 2-0 after Joshua Kimmich had won the ball while pressing.
Lewandowski later shot wide of the goal (44th).
And Dortmund?
Came his only chance in the 27th minute, but Erling Haaland didn't hit the ball fully after Julian Brandt's preparatory work.
A Gnabry is enough:
During the week Michael Zorc described the financial deficit to Bayern.
"As far as salaries are concerned, FC Bayern can afford about ten Gnabrys more than we can," said the BVB sports director.
In Munich that Gnabry made the difference in half one.
After a corner, Leon Goretzka headed the ball in his direction, on the edge of the area Gnabry dropped the ball onto his thigh and volleyed it into the goal (15th minute).
And before the 2-0 he put BVB defender Dan-Axel Zagadou under decisive pressure.
Score a goal and drink tea:
After he was substituted, the TV cameras showed Gnabry on the Bayern bench.
The master beer had to wait there.
Gnabry had apparently made himself comfortable, including a cup of tea in his hand.
The second half:
Joshua Kimmich caused a bit of tension by fouling BVB captain Marco Reus in his own penalty area without there being any concrete danger.
Emre Can converted the penalty confidently (52nd).
Shortly afterwards, Reus failed from an acute angle at Manuel Neuer (54th), later Haaland shot just over the goal (81st).
FC Bayern still had more chances.
Lewandowski first missed the far post (58') and then couldn't get past goalkeeper Marwin Hitz (69').
And then substitute Jamal Musiala decided the game (83rd).
You could tell Bayern wanted to win the title
today
:
you could feel that in the second half.
It seemed as if Dortmund had tickled Bayern with their goal.
“There has been a lot of frustration lately.
We were able to get that off our chests today," Thomas Müller then put it on Sky.
Bayern were eliminated from the cup and European Cup, but this game against BVB still had a bit of a knockout character.
Dortmund's demands:
"Out of the cup, out of the Champions League, the fans only got to the stadium late - all in all, it's been a less than satisfactory season for us," summed up Marco Rose.
One reason was the many individual mistakes before goals were conceded.
Zagadou made one today before the 2-0.
"It's our claim that there's more in it," said Rose.
The most one-sided competition in Europe:
"Oh, how nice, it's been a long time since you've seen anything like that!" sang the Bayern fans shortly before the end of the game.
What a subtle irony, after all, they see it year after year.
There have never been ten titles in a row in any of the five major football leagues.
Never.
For series like this you really have to look to Georgia or Moldova.
Or the current Bundesliga.
And when will there be another exciting title fight?
There are good reasons to assume that Bayern will play better next season than this one.
When the team has internalized the demanding trainer specifications even better.
The same could be said about BVB and coach Marco Rose.
Only Borussia will most likely lose Haaland.
Although Niklas Süle comes for the defense and probably top talent Karim Adeyemi for the attack.
But Haaland averaged 1.4 goals per 90 minutes during his time in Dortmund.
You really can't replace something like that.
In a year's time you will most likely read the following sentence: Bayern Munich are German champions are German champions are German champions...