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Former Bayern player Markus Babbel finds clear words for the stars of FC Bayern - and also takes Thomas Tuchel seriously.
Munich – After the bitter defeat in the top game against Borussia Dortmund, not only a few FC Bayern stars vented their anger. The next day the team also had to endure harsh criticism from former Bayern professional Markus Babbel.
“There is something fundamentally wrong with FC Bayern”: Markus Babbel makes it clear
“The players don’t seem to be registering that they’re not letting the season coast to a halt. Max Eberl is not a stupid person, he sees it too: the alarm bells are certainly ringing for him,” he said in
Sport1
’s one-two – and goes further: “There is something fundamentally wrong with FC Bayern. It’s about virtues that have been missing for a long time.”
If everything were right at FC Bayern, the team wouldn't be 13 points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen. “It’s a scandal for Bayern Munich when you look at the individual players on the pitch against Dortmund, but they simply don’t work as a team because they’re not prepared to go the meters that hurt,” said Babbel in
Sport1
's one-two .
Markus Babbel finds clear words for the stars of FC Bayern. © Noah Wedel/imago
Experts blame Thomas Tuchel for the Bayern crisis
After the 2-0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday evening (March 30th), Thomas Müller and Joshua Kimmich had already clearly criticized their own performances. “I also ask myself how we can have such an attitude. This is inexplicable and frustrating. You had the feeling that it was about nothing, it was a friendly game. That must never happen to us in a home game and against Dortmund,” said Kimmich after FC Bayern’s bitter defeat.
The experts in
Sport1
's one-two also made coach Thomas Tuchel and his work partly responsible for the Bayern crisis. Babbel said: “Thomas Tuchel is always so polarizing and there is always something to talk about afterwards. In my opinion he's not doing himself any favors because he's being very clumsy. They will have a huge problem against Arsenal if they don’t find their normal form in the next few days and weeks.”
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Expert Steffan Effenberg, who wore the FC Bayern jersey for many years, saw it similarly. “We know: Tuchel is leaving. But I don't see that on the pitch. And that is the big difference. That's why I think it's no longer a unity. That’s why they have the problems they have,” he said – and drew the comparison to SC Freiburg. There, the players showed a different reaction after the cancellation was announced in their 3-0 win against Mönchengladbach.
A difficult away trip to FC Heidenheim awaits FC Bayern next weekend before they continue in the Champions League against FC Arsenal. The Munich star ensemble still has a chance of winning the title there, but the championship is rather unlikely after the defeat against Borussia Dortmund. So if there were a misfortune in the Champions League, the catastrophe for the German record champions would be perfect.
(msb)