Flaming Kahn appeal on banquet speech: Bayern boss reveals grandstand conversation with Brazzo

Oliver Kahn swears FC Bayern to the second leg against Manchester City.

The FCB boss reveals a grandstand conversation with Hasan Salihamidzic.

Manchester – FC Bayern Munich has suffered a severe setback in the premier class.

After the bitter 3-0 defeat in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals at Manchester City, the chances of progressing are negligible.

However, Oliver Kahn has not given up hope for a small miracle.

After the defeat on the banquet, the Bayern boss makes a passionate appeal to his players and swears them to the second leg.

In his speech, Kahn also revealed a grandstand conversation with Hasan Salihamidzic.

Emotional Kahn speech after Bayern bankruptcy

Bayern put in a strong away performance at Manchester City, one of the best teams in Europe at home.

At the end of the day, however, the bare result was 0:3.

In the international press reviews of the bankruptcy in Manchester, one could read about a "Blue Watschn for Bayern".

Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn didn't want to go along with that in his banquet speech, instead "looking at things a bit more differentiated".

"I think we had our chances, we started very, very well, we had chances to take the lead," Kahn recalls the game in the festive Ballroom of the Clocktower Hotel.

"Then we made it 1-0 with a long-range shot, fell behind, then came into play very, very well in the second half and had one or two chances to equalize." However, the equalizer didn't want to fall, instead central defender Dayot Upamecano made a fatal error in the build-up game.

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The Bayern bosses around Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamidzic in the defeat in Manchester.

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Flaming Kahn appeal on banquet speech: Bayern boss reveals grandstand conversation with Salihamidzic

"It's like this: at this level, against a team like that, you can't afford anything, nothing.

No lateness, not a hundredth of a second, no mistakes because they were immediately punished mercilessly, just like what happened to us,” warned Kahn.

"After we made it 2-0, we had big problems and still conceded the 3-0." But Kahn wouldn't be Kahn without his famous "keep on, keep on, keep on" mentality.

"When the score was 2-0 and 3-0, with Hasan always sitting next to me, I said: 'It doesn't matter, come on, let's score another goal somehow, because anything is possible in football'," revealed the 53rd -year-old Bayern boss having a conversation with his neighbor Hasan Salihamidzic in the stands.

"There's no point in lamenting or seeing everything negatively in any way," said Kahn, who referred to the close battle for the championship in the Bundesliga but does not want to write off the Champions League just yet.

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Kahn declares war on Manchester City: "I've experienced incredible things"

"Yeah, it doesn't look so good.

Only, I've experienced incredible things in football, experienced a lot.

And we also have a duty to throw in everything that is possible in this second leg, to try everything,” Kahn promised the club in front of the assembled team for the reunion with Manchester City in Munich next Wednesday (April 19).

Statistically, however, FC Bayern no longer has a chance of reaching the semi-finals.

Bayern have never been able to make up for a defeat with two goals or more in the first leg in a total of ten cases in their European Cup history.

Kahn's speech after Bayern's bankruptcy receives encouraging applause

"To show our fans here, our fans in Munich, but also our fans all over the world, that we are not too disappointed and give up now, but try again to throw everything in in the second leg," Kahn demanded a reaction and earned for his emotional speech encouraging applause.

Among the guests in the ballroom were Thomas Tuchel and Thomas Müller, who provided a special assistant coach moment when Bayern went bankrupt.

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