Although Bayern have become champions again, there is hope that the dominance is finally crumbling. SC Freiburg, on the other hand, makes life unnecessarily difficult for themselves, and love reigns again in Berlin. Of the star-Bundesliga check.
This is how the 33rd Bundesliga matchday went
Matchday Winner
Of course, FC Bayern Munich. Congratulations on your 32nd championship title overall and your 10th in a row. From the outside, looks can be deceiving, but some players seemed to celebrate the presentation of the trophy with more irony than enthusiasm. But maybe they were just touched by their rather meager performance against the combative VfB Stuttgart. The FCB may be champions, and yet the worm is unmistakably in there. The defense is weak, the nerves are weak (Kingsley Coman receives a red card in added time), the title yield for the claims is meager, the last few appearances are not very convincing. And the club’s leadership, which used to be so self-confident that it could hardly walk, seems bloodless. Now Bayern Munich will certainly also make the championships 33 and 34 clear, but there is finally justified hope that this will not be next year or the year after.
Puzzle of the game day
BVB may not be satisfied with the status of “Vice Custodian of the Heart”. For the eighth time, Dortmund ended a season in second place, more is simply not possible (for years). So can coach Marco Rose be credited with being second in the championship again? Somehow it sounded like that on Saturday after the 3-1 win against Greuther Fürth. Sports director Sebastian Kehl was asked twice whether Rose would still be a coach next season, and Kehl answered twice: “I assume so.” This formulation naturally invited spontaneous speculation. Because, of course, BVB is number two again, but they have also been eliminated from all cup competitions without a hitch. Kehl then wanted to solve things on Sunday: “I can clearly say that I’m planning the coming season with Marco,” he said in the Sport1 “double pass” and nevertheless pushed a little darkly that he “had a few more things with the trainer to discuss”.
Game day reconciliation
Last home game, spring kindly looked down into the Olympic Stadium, against Mainz 05 there were three points and thus the final rescue. When, if not now, would be the right time for the great reconciliation between the team and the fans? And this is how it happened: After warming up, just before kick-off, the Hertha players linked arms in front of the curve and thus buried their fan boycott. A goosebump moment even for the Sky reporters. Herthan had denied their supporters the usual walk into the fan curve for three games because of the jersey humiliation. “One argues in the family, one is angry with the others, then one makes up again and loves one another again,” said Kevin-Prince Boateng in his usual laconic and wise manner.
Missed chance(s) of the day.
In league two, it will only be decided on the last matchday who will be promoted together with Schalke 04 and who can or must be relegated. Only autumn champions FC St. Pauli could not use their very last chance and said goodbye to the promotion race. One floor up, Hertha BSC could have finally secured the class, but preferred to give Mainz 05 the three points. Because VfB Stuttgart did not want to admit defeat in Munich, there will be a showdown next Saturday between the ex-Big City team Club, the Swabians and Arminia Bielefeld, who already seemed pretty lost in Bochum. Freiburg, the surprise team of the season, is still holding back when it comes to the Champions League. Due to the home defeat against Union Berlin, the Badeners could still be passed through to the Conference League if things go really badly.
You should see this gate (again).
Not only did Patrick Schick score two of the four goals against TSG Hoffenheim, his second goal to make it 3-2 for Leverkusen in the 76th minute was particularly worth seeing: Bayer is on the left and dances out the opponent in a very small space. Then Charles Aranguiz passes to the starting Schick, who falls down briefly, stands up again, lets goalkeeper Oliver Baumann get out, drifts almost to the baseline and scores his second goal from there. Leverkusen will be happy with the Czech for a long time to come.
Game day picture
Source: Stern
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