As of: February 29, 2024, 7:18 a.m
By: Korbinian Kothny
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FC Bayern can still win.
After their successful DFL protest, the fans are once again dedicating themselves to their favorite enemy.
The arena whispers about the Leipzig game.
Munich – So there they were again, the Dusel Bayern.
After three games in which everything that could go wrong went wrong, the widespread football myth struck again.
“Finally,” many FC Bayern Munich fans groaned, while the ousted Thomas Tuchel said: “We deserved that.”
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The Bayern coach was probably not entirely wrong.
Not only was it Bayern's first point-scoring late goal since the 2-1 win in Gladbach on Matchday 3, but Tuchel feels like he has been struggling with an injury misery that doesn't seem to end since the start of the season.
Against Leipzig, the starting eleven again lined up almost by themselves.
In view of his impending departure, Tuchel had threatened that he would no longer have to take the sensitivities of his stars into account, but he had no choice but to send all of his fit players onto the pitch.
More Bayern stars in the stands or on the pitch?
While Joshua Kimmich, for example, had to slide to the right back because of this, the star crowd in the stands of the Allianz Arena was almost as big as on the pitch.
After referee Sascha Stegemann had blown the whistle for the top game, Alphonso Davies (strained medial ligament), Kingsley Coman (torn medial ligament), Daniel Peretz (torn medial ligament), Bouna Sarr (torn cruciate ligament) and Dayot Upamecano (torn hamstring) all went to their stands one after the other.
The latter two used their involuntary break to look after their offspring.
So once again there was one place left on the Bayern bench, or rather two, after Thomas Tuchel spent most of the game with his suitcase packed.
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No crosshairs, no tennis balls, no toy cars – just 90 minutes of football
The injured quintet and Tuchel witnessed a spectacle that had not been seen for a long time.
And no, for once that didn't mean Bayern's first victory after three defeats in a row.
Rather, the game against Leipzig was one of the few and first Bayern or Bundesliga games in recent weeks that did not have to be interrupted due to fan protests.
No crosshairs, no tennis balls, no toy cars – just 90 minutes plus x Bundesliga.
Also nice.
But it didn't go completely without protest.
“People who go to the stadium have made football great.
People who go to the stadium will keep football alive,” said one banner.
Only it didn't come from the south curve as usual, but suddenly appeared in the main stand at the beginning of the second half.
You don't see that often either.
After the successful protest against the DFL and the planned investor entry, the die-hard Bayern fans had once again turned their attention to their other favorite enemy.
LawnBallsport Leipzig.
Pretty best friends or enemy number one?
Leipzig coach Marco Rose and Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund get along great, while the FCB fans don't think much of their opponent.
© Image montage @ IMAGO / Sven Simon / tz
RB Leipzig as an enemy of FC Bayern?
Probably pretty best friends
For almost the entire season, the relatively simple, but not misinterpretable, banner hung in the south curve with the following content: “FUCK RB”.
A guiding principle that many FCB employees probably see completely differently than their supporters.
On the pitch were two Bayern stars with RB past, Joshua Kimmich and later Konrad Laimer.
Dayot Upamecano probably wouldn't sign the banner in the stands either.
And thanks to Christoph Freund, there was a certain RB flair on the Bayern bench, which will be bigger rather than smaller on Säbener Straße in the future with the appointment of Max Eberl as sports director.
The mutual bond was also evident later in the catacombs of the Allianz Arena.
Despite the last-minute defeat, RB professional Christoph Baumgartner came out of the dressing room arm in arm with a member of the Bayern staff, and even Leipzig coach Marco Rose said goodbye with praise for an FCB employee as he left the Munich stadium.
“Christoph is a top man from Salzburg.
Top man,” the RB coach interrupted the interview with the waiting Bayern journalists – and of course he meant Christoph Freund.
“Fuck RB”?
Probably pretty best friends.
Korbinian Kothny reported from the Allianz Arena.