Hertha’s declaration of bankruptcy – when the opponent is angry about a 4:1
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It is only thanks to Munich’s usury of chances that Hertha BSC does not go down in double digits against FC Bayern. The passivity and error rate of the Berliners are so frightening that Thomas Müller just has to say it openly.
Sthey were dissatisfied. Manuel Neuer scolded and got angry, just before that Robert Lewandowski had trudged annoyed into the catacombs of the Berlin Olympic Stadium. FC Bayern had lost. Not the game, that was won with a 4-1 away win at Hertha BSC, but against his own claims.
An unnecessary goal on the one hand and missed chances on the other hand caused resentment. “If he has two situations where he needs to get the ball, he scores two goals. Once the ball was taken away from him – in quotation marks,” Julian Nagelsmann jumped to the side of his goalless attacker Lewandowski and explained: “Then he’s a bit stinky. But that is what sets him apart. He has that ambition. And that’s why he’s one of the best players and the best striker in the world every year – because he’s who he is.”
The Munich coach, who applauded goals 99 to 102 in his 29th competitive game, was also not satisfied: “In the end, the goal bothers me more than the missed chances. That annoys me. It is totally redundant, an unnecessary action.”
Statements that document the hunger and ambition with which the Munich team are striving for their tenth championship in a row. But also words that underlined the insignificance of the opponent.
30:5 shots on goal
What was happening on the field had something of a training game against your own B youth. The guests combined effortlessly across the field. Hard duels, dynamics, speed, sophistication – the difference in quality between the two opponents was huge.
Corentin Tolisso’s goal should have been followed by many more: in the end, the Berliners were well served with 1:4
Which: REUTERS
A normal quota in terms of chance conversion would have been enough to screw the amount of the win against the completely overwhelmed Berliners into the double-digit range. The league leaders needed less than five minutes for the first five shots on the Hertha goal. The score at the end was 30:5.
“We rode one wave after the other,” said Thomas Müller enthusiastically after the game, but he was also quite self-critical. Because the fact that it was only four Munich goals, two more were revoked by the VAR, was also his fault. “I found the magnet in the goalkeeper’s gloves two or three times,” joked the international.
However, he managed one goal. And Müller could only wonder about this. He had at least made it 2-0 for Bayern shortly before the break and was amazed that there had been no attempts to prevent him.
After a free kick by Joshua Kimmich, he had as much space in Hertha’s penalty area as if he were about to take a penalty. Müller extended the ball into the far corner with the sole. A possible irritation caused by a spectator disturbing the audience with a whistle in the oval, which was sparsely filled with 3000 spectators, was not enough as an excuse for Berlin’s sleepiness.
No one there: Thomas Müller scores unchallenged to make it 2-0
Source: dpa / Soeren Stache
Müller’s words also suggested that troublemakers had only taken a seat in the stands that evening: “They didn’t really try to defend me. We want to play this ball, but that I’m so free…” Müller wondered and drew a comparison to the sensitive cup loss of the capital city in the derby against Union Berlin.
“It was almost a copy of Robin Knoche’s goal during the week,” Müller recognized and shrugged his shoulders: “I’ll take that with me.”
