Status: 20.12.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
FC Bayern goes into the winter break of the Bundesliga in second place. The game in Wolfsburg brings two insights to light: the record champions have to position themselves more broadly. And coach Tuchel has learned from his bloody nose.
Thomas Tuchel clenched both hands into fists, his professionals were pumped up and celebrated by the fans who had traveled with them. FC Bayern Munich dragged itself into the winter break with the last of its strength. The German champions won 2-1 (2-1) at VfL Wolfsburg on Wednesday evening, even without eight sick or injured professionals, and thus remain close to leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.
“It was very clear that we had to push through today,” said Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund on the pay-TV channel Sky. “Those were really important three points and that feels really good.”
Thanks to goals from Jamal Musiala (33rd minute) and Harry Kane (43rd), Bayern successfully concluded one of the most turbulent years in their club’s history. However, Maximilian Arnold’s 1:2 (45th + 1) spoiled their hope of a calm and relaxed second half. Because the Wolfsburg team pushed the visibly exhausted record champions further and further back.
The fact that the absence of several prominent names such as Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka (both ill), Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman (both injured) meant that coach Thomas Tuchel couldn’t even get an 18-man matchday squad together for the last appearance of the year shows But also: Bayern urgently need to correct the mistakes of the summer in January and strengthen their squad. With such a thin line-up, the championship and Champions League are difficult to win.
“Something can happen,” says Tuchel
And that’s how it will happen, as Freund announced. “We will now look at what we need, what is possible and we will prepare ourselves well for the spring,” he said and when asked whether something will happen: “I think something will happen, yes.”
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This is also how Tuchel sees it, who has become a little more cautious in his demands after getting a bloody nose from his superiors in the fall. He pointed out that the squad was too thin and was too loud and persistent and was then reprimanded.
After the game in Wolfsburg, the coach said: “There are too many free places on the score sheet in every game.” When asked whether something had to happen, he replied diplomatically: “Nothing has to happen, something can happen. But the winter transfer market is not easy.”
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