Kimmich dispute?
He probably refused to play at right-back
Created: 09/21/2022, 05:02
By: Christoph Gschossmann
Wasn't he keen on the right-back position?
Bayern's Joshua Kimmich at the Augsburg game.
© Tom Weller / picture alliance
It's rumbling at FC Bayern: Apparently there was a quarrel between coach Julian Nagelsmann and six Joshua Kimmich in the Augsburg game.
Munich - At Bayern it's cracking.
Four games without a league win, most recently the bitter 0-1 defeat in Augsburg and only fourth place in the table - it was an Oktoberfest weekend to forget for the Reds.
But already during the game in Swabia there should have been discrepancies - around Joshua Kimmich.
In the 62nd minute, coach Julian Nagelsmann brought on offensive Serge Gnabry for right-back Noussair Mazraoui, who had been called up from the start.
Sixer Joshua Kimmich was the "sufferer" of this swap, because the national player was ordered to the right back by his coach.
And Kimmich didn't seem to like that at all.
Kimmich complains "relatively clearly" about the right-back position
As
ran
reports, the 27-year-old complained "relatively clearly" about it - he didn't like being transferred back to the position he had held for years at FC Bayern and in the national team.
Kimmich's objections were promptly answered: Nagelsmann brought Josip Stanisic (for Jamal Musiala) in the 78th.
Stanisic in turn took over Kimmich's full-back position.
The problem: Mathys Tel continued to simmer on the bench as a striker, Nagelsmann had already made four changes, as Marcel Sabitzer and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting had already come.
In the end, Bayern lacked the offensive power to avert the defeat - even Manuel Neuer desperately intervened in the start-up.
If Kimmich had accepted his new short-term role without complaint, Nagelsmann could have sent even more attackers onto the field.
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Sadio Mané cannot yet replace Robert Lewandowski at Bayern Munich. He remained pale against Augsburg - even Manuel Neuer trumped him.
