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Again and again he has his fingers in the game: Gladbach's Yann Sommer
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The man of the game:
Yann Sommer already jumped into the right corner, but the Gladbach keeper saved Sadio Mané's shot from very short range with his feet.
Even with the margin, Munich's summer addition could not outwit Gladbach's number one.
There seemed to be no getting past the outstanding summer, not before, not with Mané's shots (61st minute), and not for a long time afterwards either.
The way was blocked.
Shortly after Mané's shots, a Gladbach player was on the ground, Joshua Kimmich shot the ball away and discussed.
He saw yellow.
Bayern were annoyed.
The Redeemer:
But Bayern didn't despair and were rewarded with a point.
In the 83rd minute, Leroy Sané was a player who was able to overcome Sommer that evening.
Result of the game:
The statistics counted 33:5 shots on goal at the end, 14:1 to corners, Bayern Munich was clearly superior and missed the fourth victory on the fourth day of the Bundesliga.
The home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach ended 1:1.
Here is the match report.
Bayern dominance from the first minute:
It was less than 60 seconds before Dayot Upamecano almost gifted the Munich south curve, which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a great choreography, with an early goal.
But Gladbach's goalkeeper Sommer was in witcher mode right from the start and fended off the Bayern professional's dangerous header with a strong reflex.
The Munich team remained dominant: Kingsley Coman on the right kept driving with his runs;
Leory Sané had good chances to take the lead in the 30th and 33rd minutes;
This was followed by two offside goals from Sadio Mané (34th and 39th minutes).
A 0-0 at half time would have been a small miracle.
It didn't happen that way.
Surprise!
The 43rd minute: Gladbach throw in in their own half, long pass (or rather a liberating blow) from Christoph Kramer, Upamecano unluckily slipped the ball through, suddenly Marcus Thuram ran alone to Manuel Neuer and suddenly the game was turned upside down .
Until then, Gladbach hadn't had a single shot on goal, they hadn't even thought about daring a shot on goal - they were too busy with defensive work.
But then Thuram, somehow, got a shot and the guests led 1-0 at the break.
Post and on the post:
In the 18th minute, several activists stormed the pitch.
The three people on the pitch tried to tie themselves to the goalposts.
The audience reacted with whistles - and cheered loudly when the action failed, the security service was quicker and led the activists from the square.
The people were apparently climate activists.
Their shirts read Stop the Fossil Madness.
The learner:
"Less tactical content, more leadership," is how coach Julian Nagelsmann described the change he claims to have gone through in comparison to his first Bayern season before kick-off.
At half-time, leader Nagelsmann showed tact when he left Upamecano on the field after his buck.
After all, there was a certain Matthijs de Ligt on the Munich bench, who came to Bayern Munich in the summer for a fee of 67 million euros.
The young and the old:
With Joe Scally and Luca Netz, Gladbach coach Daniel Farke ordered two extremely young wing players into his back four.
Both are 19 – and of course they struggled against the top stars in Munich.
But they didn't make such an obvious mistake as Upamecano's before the 1-0.
A veteran helped out at her side.
Goalkeeper Sommer, 33, kept getting the ball, he ended up making 19 saves – and that was on a special day for him.
The keeper is now the Swiss record player in the Bundesliga.
With his 266th appearance in Germany's top division, he replaced the previous record holder Ciriaco Sforza.
The second half in rapid succession:
Müller header from close range (48'), double chance for Mané from a few meters (61'), Sané fails after a dream pass from Benjamin Pavard (65'), Sané's low shot (68'), Müller's header (71'). .), summer, summer, summer, always summer, outside post in a corner by Kimmich.
But then the ball was still in the goal after a low shot by Sané in the penalty area.
Crowbar:
You could see how badly Bayern wanted to win this game when de Ligt came on.
The 1.89 meter tall defender came on in the 85th minute with a score of 1: 1 and positioned himself in the top striker, where Robert Lewandowski would have been in the past.
The substitution was more reminiscent of the times of the even bigger defender Daniel van Buyten, who once also helped out as a Munich striker in the final phases.
This measure almost worked: In the 90th minute, de Ligt failed with a powerful shot.
Of course in summer.
Outlook:
Bayern Munich and Union Berlin are tied at the top of the table on points, Dortmund has moved up one point, Gladbach is sixth and two points behind.
However, one should not hope for too much tension in the Bundesliga championship fight.
The Munich team doesn't waste as many scoring chances in every game and there won't always be a goalkeeper who is as outstanding as Yann Sommer did that evening.