Bochum flop after XXL rotation: Bavaria passes the smile: “Lessons” in front of Leverkusen

Not only in Müller was the weekend-mood that was pretty bad after the totally unnecessary and self-indebted Bochum flop. “We won’t be sitting on the couch tonight,” Thomas Müller granted after the sensational 2: 3 (2: 1) of FC Bayern when leaving the stadium.

After the XXL rotation by coach Vincent Kompany, which was not successful through the impetuous red card for midfielder João Palhinha, the trouble at Bayern was great. The fact that the league league has been able to get the first home defeat against Bochum since 1991 because the eight-point lead over the pursuer Bayer Leverkusen did not shrank, the disappointment hardly loved. “I don’t care that Leverkusen also lost,” said Kompany, too.

Müller: “From tomorrow full on Leverkusen”

Bayern would not be Bayern – and Thomas Müller would not be Thomas Müller – if the negative experience at the same time had not provoked a combative message. “From tomorrow we will go full of Tuesday and Leverkusen,” said Müller. Especially now! Anyone who believes that Bayern are now unsettled and would go into the much more important Champions League second leg against Bayer with self-doubt.

“Every time we have lost this season, we went into the next game with a lot of fire and determination,” said striker Harry Kane. The Englishman was one of ten 3-0 winners of the round of 16 first leg, which Kompany had rotated from his starting eleven to protect them for part two of the tightly tied and strenuous Leverkusen duel.

Company immediately suspected that his measure, after the lightly playful 2-0 lead after the double pack by temporary striker Raphaël Guerreiro, would lead to discussions. He has to “accept” that. The Belgian might accept “no excuses”, not for him, but also not for his players.

VfL coach Hecking “blissful”

“We also have to be entitled to not lose with ten players,” he noticed for the long outnumbered to Palhinhas, but not intended, but nevertheless brisk step on the leg of the Bochumer Georgios Masouras. The majority initially converted a submissive guests into brave. Javko Medic had shortened to 1-2 before the dismissal. Ibrahima Sissoko and Matus Bero then turned the events in the Allianz Arena upside down. VfL coach Dieter Hecking was “blissful”, a rescue of VfL within reach.

Bayern think in higher spheres. Sports board member Max Eberl spoke of “two lessons that we have learned. You should avoid to be so to be so careful in duels that the referee has the chance to show red. And if we are less, then we have to run for those more.”

Eberl expects “very heated” second leg

In Leverkusen, which is not only clocked to the KO evening because of the injury to top star Florian Wirtz, there will certainly be no willingness to work. And Kompany will again rotate all the stars such as Kane, Kimmich and Musiala on the lawn.

“I think it will be very, very heated and emotional”, predicted Eberl. Rotity like against Bochum and exuberant big opportunities as with Serge Gnabry’s penalty on the posts, Bayern must not allow themselves again.

After all: Urbig does not wobble

“Leverkusen will try to score goals with all his might. And from your point of view, we prefer to go on an early goal. We have to appear extremely manly from the start,” Eberl warned. As a ray of hope, the sports director made the young goalkeeper Jonas Urbig before Leverkusen at the first 90-minute mission as a new representative “with flying colors and sovereignty”. The three goals and the defeat could not be blamed on Urbig.

Eberl recommends for the guest performance in Leverkusen activity instead of passivity. “It is not in the Bayern DNA to manage a lead. In the best case, we also score a goal,” he said. And when the Champions League quarter-finals are booked in the BayArena on Tuesday evening, Müller and Co. will then be sitting on the hotel couch again with a smile.