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Bayern, who were nine points ahead of Borussia Dortmund after the championship break due to the World Cup in Qatar, which was extended in Germany for the usual winter break, are missing their eleventh title in a row in the Bundesliga. Today, with one day left, the side of former Julian Nagelsmann and now Thomas Tuchel are two points behind Borussia, who won in Augsburg (0-3), with Ivorian striker Sebastian Haller, who came from Ajax Amsterdam, in the lead. to try to fill the void left by Haaland’s departure, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in his first days at the club. Having passed treatment, Haller is leading a side who saw nothing at stake with a final-day win against Mainz and ended Bayern’s hegemony. In any case, Bayern would miss the salad bowl that distinguishes the champions if they don’t win against Colonia at home in the last game next Saturday at half past three in the afternoon.
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Tomas Koubek, Renato Veiga, Gouweleeuw, Felix Uduokhai, Mads Pedersen (David Colina, min. 45), Elvis Rexhbecaj (Irvin Cardona, min. 61), Niklas Dorsch, Arne Engels, Dion Beljo, Ermedin Demirovic (Arne Maier, min. 84) and Kelvin Yeboah (Maximilian Bauer, Min. 40)
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Gregor Kobel, Julian Ryerson, Hummels (Nico Schlotterbeck, min. 91), Niklas Süle, Marius Wolf, Malen (Gio Reyna, min. 91), Karim Adeyemi (Salih Ozcan, min. 71), Emre Can, Raphael Guerreiro (Marco Reus, 80th minute), Brandt and Sébastian Haller
Goals 0-1 min 58: Sebastian Haller. 0-2 mins 83: Sebastian Haller. 0-3min 93: Brandt.
referee Tobias Welz
Yellow cards Dion Beljo (min. 42), Emre Can (min. 46), Karim Adeyemi (min. 69) and Marius Wolf (min. 73)
Red cards Felix Uduokhai (min. 38)
Borussia seized the option presented to them by Bayern’s defeat by Leipzig this Sunday at the Allianz Arena, an unexpected debacle, especially as the game started with Tuchel’s side ahead. But Leipzig fell behind (1:3) and the Bayern coach still doubts what happened. “I don’t know what’s going on. “I see how the team is training, I’m watching their spirit and I can’t find an explanation for what’s happening,” stressed the coach after the defeat, who joined the team two months ago after several long knives had killed Nagelsmann, who was unpopular with several heavyweights, from the dressing room.
“We thought about it a lot and were convinced that it was the best solution. I wouldn’t say that Tuchel is to blame for what happened, but now we have to face the criticism,” suspects Hasan Salihamidzic, FC Bayern’s embattled sports director. “It has happened to us several times this season that we conceded a goal and everything seems to be collapsing,” reflected Oliver Kahn, the club’s managing director and a great source of criticism, also from the volcanic Lothar Matthäus. The nomenclature of former players at the ever-powerful Bavarian giants has exploded.
Bayern are close to losing to a rival who won their first away game since February 23 this Sunday. Borussia won in Augsburg through tenacity and conviction rather than football. Sebastian Haller saved him on the edge of the game with a maneuver in the penalty area. By this time, Sule and Emre Can had already finished with the stick. Haller has seven minutes to ninety and has an excellent performance with nine goals and five assists in 18 games. In the last three days he has scored five goals.
Haller’s goal relieved Borussia, who played a little over half a game against an opponent outnumbered, but rebelled after conceding the first goal. Swiss goalkeeper Kobel rescued the team from a problem by interfering in a one-on-one against Augsburg midfielder Cardona, a committed side who still need a point to secure their place in Germany’s first division, and was punished for it A late Brandt goal opened the jubilation of the yellow wall moving to Bayern, while 80 kilometers from there Bayern brood over the disaster of a season that could end in white because they were defeated in the Champions League by Manchester City and in the cup were left behind by Freiburg.
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