Bundesliga top game: Leverkusen dominates: Bavaria’s masterpiece with flaws

This memo was on the way to the 34th German Championship. The title comeback in the Bundesliga in the Bundesliga is hard to take FC Bayern Munich after the happy 0-0 at the stronger Bayer Leverkusen. But with a view to the way to the Champions League final “Dahoam”, the record champion is growing a new “Bestia Negra” (black bea).

Bayern were once baptized in Spain as a highly uncomfortable opponent for Real Madrid. The former real and Bayern professional Xabi Alonso is now nothing else with his team for the Munich. The master coach remained undefeated in the sixth game as a Bayer coach against Bayern. Even more. His protégés demonstrated impressively on Saturday evening in the Bundesliga summit who is currently the most powerful German team.

Despite the eight points ahead of the table, Bayern are not in the table. “Leverkusen was there at the point, they were really, really intense and they were very, very well done,” groan Munich sports director Christoph Freund after a game in which Bayern was historically inferior. And in a good two weeks there could be a meeting again in the Champions League round of 16.

A half completely without a shot, the first shot only after more than 70 minutes – that should not have been possible since the corresponding data collection more than 30 years ago. “It may be happy today,” known goalkeeper Manuel Neuer at the Sky microphone. “It was important not to lose this game. Of course it would have been better to win. But we didn’t deserve that today either.”

Müller speaks of “wonderful point”

With regard to the championship, Bayern could do something despite. The lead against the rest of the national competition remained. Never before, a team in the league played a lead of eight points at that time. “We took a good result home and will continue,” insisted Thomas Müller. “That’s why it was a wonderful point for us. It continues.”

Coach Vincent Kompany, who stands in front of his masterpiece in the premiere season, also reacted almost a little in the field to the balance of power on the pitch. “We scored almost 100 goals,” said the Belgian with a view to all previous competitive games below him. “We were always dominant in almost every game. Today we take this point with us and defended well.”

But he was also unable to crack Alonsos Leverkusener. Even in the sixth duel as a Bayer coach, the Bask had come up with something against the Munich team. Without a nominal lace – the strikers Patrik Schick and Victor Boniface stayed surprisingly on the bench – Bayer had more dominance in midfield. In addition, Alonso’s team pressed very high and central defender Jonathan Tah was top star Jamal Musiala, sometimes far beyond the center line.

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“So we have to win the game very clearly. That was obviously with the way we played, with the dominance, as we played,” said Tah after the absurd result in view of 16: 2 Gate shots. The restored Werkself brought significantly more energy to the pitch than the Bavaria, which had been 2-1 at Celtic Glasgow on Wednesday in the Champions League.

As the best German team of the Champions League preliminary round, Leverkusen was spared the round of 16 playoffs. Already in a good two weeks in the premier class in the round of the last 16, both teams meet again. For Bayern, who absolutely want to complete the final at home in the Allianz Arena on May 31, this is currently anything but attractive.