The French Benjamin Pavard after the defeat of Bayern Munich against RB Leipzig.
Photo: Anna Szilagyi / EFE
The super powerful Bayern Munich fell this Saturday 1-3 against RB Leipzig and remains disoriented in the current Bundesliga season. Although he is still first with two games to go in the league, Borussia Dortmund is closely following him and depends on himself to snatch the league title from the Munich team.
Just one point from Bayern, Dortmund will decide their future with a last chance against Augsburg to win the league and give the final KO to a Bavarian team that has unquestionably dominated German football for just over 10 years.
However, the current institutional situation of the team led by the German Thomas Tuchel, who arrived in March to replace his compatriot Julian Nagelsmann, does not disturb captain Thomas Müller, who reminded the German press that the league is not over until it is over. just
“We have one game left and we have to focus on winning. If we win it, Dortmund will have to win both of their games. I’d like to see if they hold up to the pressure. If they succeed then I will congratulate them,” Müller told Sky. The captain, along with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, are the only ones in the squad to have gone a titleless season before the team became the crushing German soccer powerhouse it is today.
The rebirth of the Bavarian giant
This thirst for titles dates back to the 2009 season when the Dutchman Louis van Gaal took the reins of Bayern to sweep the Bundesliga in his first season and reaching the 2010 Champions League final that he lost to Inter Milan in Jose Mourinho
Subsequently, the reds had two consecutive seasons without titles due in large part to Jürgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund that surprised Europe and the Bundesliga. A humiliating 5-2 defeat by Dortmund against Bayern in the 2012 German Cup was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the board, then chaired by Karlheinz Rummenigge. The following season, Bayern Munich hired the Spaniard Pep Guardiola, won the treble and the rest is history.
The streak of ten consecutive seasons winning the Bundesliga could end this year if
Tuchel, who arrived after the dismissal of Julian Nagelsmann due to poor results, does not get his act together. The manager admitted to Sky that he had no explanation for what had happened: “It’s not that Leipzig ran over us, what happened was that we gave up the game and I can’t explain why.”
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