Summary of Bochum's 2:3 victory over Bayern Munich/Sport1
Bayern Munich is in a serious crisis.
After the defeat to Leverkusen in this season's game and the loss against Lazio that complicated them in the round of 16 of the Champions League, today (Sunday) the Bavarians lost 3:2 in Bochum and now the leading Leverkusen leads them by eight points with 12 rounds left to go.
Despite the worst week for the German champions in the last 11 seasons, the club has no intention of firing Thomas Tuchel.
The Bavarians announced the cancellation of Tuchel's press conference at the end of the game, and many thought that this was a sign that the announcement of the dismissal was imminent.
It later turned out that the cancellation was due to the fact that due to the long overtime (14 minutes in the first half and eight in the second) there was a danger that they would miss the flight back to Munich.
A few minutes later, senior German journalist Florian Plettenberg confirmed that Tochel would remain in his post, at least for the time being.
"Horror Movie".
Goretzka with Mueller and Kane/Reuters
Tuchel himself does not intend to resign and throw up his hands, and for him the loss in Bochum was completely different from the previous two: "Such losses are not fair, a lot went against us today. I believe that if we had played this game five more times, we would have won five times."
The coach was also asked about the chances of winning the championship, and drew inspiration from closing the gap from Dortmund last year: "Championship? Right now it's not very realistic, but last season we hoped until the second to last and it worked. That's why we continue to believe even now, but for that we'll have to get back to ourselves."
The team's midfielder Leon Goretzka sounds depressed by the situation: "It feels like a horror movie that won't end, everything is going wrong at the moment. We are making too many personal mistakes. A championship? Right now it's hard to believe. That's not the question we need to answer right now either, we need to get back to the level our".
At the end of the game, there was a nervous conversation on the lawn between the team's midfielder Yozoa Kimish and the assistant coach Jolet Lev, which almost turned into a physical confrontation.
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