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The eleventh consecutive title in the Bundesliga escapes Bayern, which when the championship went to the break for the World Cup in Qatar, prolonged in Germany by the usual winter break, was nine points ahead of Borussia Dortmund. Today, a day from the end, the team formerly led by Julian Nagelsmann and now by Thomas Tuchel is two points behind Borussia, which won in Augsburg (0-3) with Sebastian Haller, the Ivorian striker who arrived from Ajax to try to fill the void left by Haaland's departure and who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in his first days at the club. After overcoming the treatment, Haller leads a team that if it beats Mainz on the last day, which nothing is played, will have ended the hegemony of Bayern. In any case, the Bavarians would be left without the salad bowl that distinguishes the champion if they do not overcome the Cologne at home in that last act scheduled for next Saturday from three thirty in the afternoon.
AUSAugsburg
0
Tomas Koubek, Renato Veiga, Gouweleeuw, Felix Uduokhai, Mads Pedersen (David Colina, min. 45), Elvis Rexhbecaj (Irvin Cardona, min. 61), Niklas Dorsch, Arne Engels, Dion Beljo, Ermedin Demirovic (Arne Maier, min. 84) and Kelvin Yeboah (Maximilian Bauer, min. 40)
BDO B. Dortmund
3
Gregor Kobel, Julian Ryerson, Hummels (Nico Schlotterbeck, min. 91), Niklas Süle, Marius Wolf, Malen (Gio Reyna, min. 91), Karim Adeyemi (Salih Ozcan, min. 71), Emre Can, Raphael Guerreiro (Marco Reus, min. 80), Brandt and Sébastian Haller
Goals 0-1 min. 58: Sébastian Haller. 0-2 min. 83: Sébastian Haller. 0-3 min. 93: Brandt.
Arbitrator Tobias Welz
Yellow cards Dion Beljo (min. 42), Emre Can (min. 46), Karim Adeyemi (min. 69) and Marius Wolf (min. 73)
Red cards Felix Uduokhai (min. 38)
Borussia took advantage of this Sunday the option that opened the defeat of Bayern against Leipzig at the Allianz Arena, an unexpected debacle and more because the game started with advantage of the team that trains Tuchel. But Leipzig came back (1-3) and the Bayern coach still questions what happened. "I don't know what's going on. I see the team training, I observe its spirit and I can't find an explanation for what happens," said the coach after the defeat, who two months ago joined the team after several long knives liquidated Nagelsmann, unloved by several heavyweights of the locker room.
"We thought about it a lot and believed it was the best solution. Nor would I say that Tuchel is to blame for what happens, but now we have to face criticism," said Hasan Salihamidzic, Bayern's answering sporting director. "Several times this season we have conceded a goal and everything seems to collapse," reflected Oliver Kahn, the club's chief executive and a major critic of criticism, including from volcanic Lothar Matthaus. The nomenclature of former players of the Bavarian giant, always powerful, has erupted.
Bayern are about to fall to an opponent who on Sunday won their first away game since February 23. He beat Borussia in Augsburg more for tenacity and conviction than for football. Sebastian Haller rescued him with a manoeuvre in the area on the edge of the hour mark. By then Sule and Emre Can had already finished off the stick. Haller scored seven minutes from ninety and has an excellent service record with nine goals and five goal passes in 18 games. In the last three days he has five goals.
Haller's aim relieved Borussia, who played for just over half a game against an opponent in numerical inferiority, but who rebelled after conceding the first goal. The Swiss goal Kobel rescued the team from a problem by disrupting a one-on-one against Cardona, half tip of Augsburg, a selfless team that must still add a point to guarantee its permanence in the German first division and that ended up punished by a late goal from Brandt that opened the celebrations of the yellow wall displaced to Bavaria, while 80 kilometers from there Bayern ruminates the disaster of a campaign that can end in white because in the Champions League he left behind Manchester City and in the Cup Freiburg.
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