Bayern Munich won its 11th consecutive Bundesliga title. Dortmund’s draw (2-2) made them lose the title in agony.
Despite the title, the Bavarian club fired Oliver Kahn, general manager, and Salihamidžić, sports director.
The cruelty of football is primed with the Borussia Dortmund fan to make it clear that there is no paradise on German soil.
Tuchel’s team wins the Bundesliga title, in extremis. Coman put the Munich team ahead. Ljubicic, from a penalty, had tied the game in the 80th minute.
Musiala, who had come on from the bench four minutes earlier, scored the winning goal (1-2) in the 88th minute and gave him the Bundesliga title, the eleventh in a row. The players of the Munich team had to wait for the end of the Borussia Dortmund game, which had one last chance to win, but could only tie (2-2).
If Gary Lineker said that football is a sport invented by the English, they play 11 against 11 and Germany always wins, after the last day of the German league it could be added that the Bundesliga is a competition played by German teams, but always Bayern win. It does not matter that the people from Munich arrive in crisis in many facets, when the domestic title is at stake they have triumphed, at least, for 11 seasons.
Tuchel’s team arrived in Cologne with the need to win and wait for events in Dortmund and that was noticeable from the first minute of the game. The Bayern players were surprised by the desire and intensity of the locals. The inaccuracies of the Munich team meant that, in minute 2, Kainz had the first shot that went over Sommer’s crossbar. The colonists, without pressure, were looking for their opportunity that Bayern would leave them to look for Sommer’s goal. In the 8th minute, Coman took a right foot from the edge of the area to open the scoring and trigger the euphoria of a fan that he believed in taking the title. Ten minutes later, Müller hit the post with a header. Colonia put the offensive desire, but the effectiveness belonged to Bayern.
Coman’s goal was the first of the three celebrations that the numerous Bayern supporters in the stands of the Rhein Energie in Cologne experienced in the first half. His team had only scored once, but the news from Dortmund made them burst with joy two more times. Before the break, Dortmund lost 0-2 against Mainz and on top of that, Borussia had missed a penalty. And they had a fourth joy, although the VAR was in charge of crushing it. Sané scored at 44′ but, after reviewing it on the screen, the referee annulled it due to a previous hand from Sané himself, . Within 45 minutes, the planets were lining up for Bayern to claim their eleventh Bundesliga title, as night fell in Dortmund.
After going through the locker room, the game barely changed what was seen in the first part. The Colonia players dominated the ball and Bayern seemed to wait for the minutes to pass, without a doubt a dangerous strategy that Tuchel did not like, who on more than one occasion came off the bench to ask for more intensity, but it did not seem that they were listening to him. It seemed that the coach was the only one who appreciated that a Cologne goal left them without the Bundesliga. A chance for Sané in the 57th minute and little else. Colonia demonstrated the reason why they are in the middle zone of the table, a lot of ball handling, but they did not approach the Munich goal or greet him until minute 59. A corner kick from Kainz was headed by Selke and Sommer had to work hard to avoid the equalizing goal. Ten minutes later the team from Colón had it again, but without success.
This action and the news of Dortmund’s goal against Mainz, which was 1-2, activated Bayern, something that their coach had not achieved, who tried to refresh the team with changes. Sané had it again in minute 73 and three minutes later Choupo-Moting fired slightly wide. Nerves began to show in the Munich ranks, especially when the referee whistled for a free kick by Gnabry’s hand. Initially he signaled it outside the area, but after the VAR notice that the foul was inside the area. Ljubicic did not forgive and put the tie on the scoreboard after beating Sommer from eleven meters. It was the 80th minute and the title was slipping away from Bayern and it seemed that the horrible season for the Munich team was going to be complete, but Musiala avoided it. He had barely been on the field for four minutes when he caught a ball up front and sent it close to the left post of the Colonia goalkeeper, just like in Coman’s goal, he couldn’t prevent it from slipping into his goal.
right @FCBayern Munich ist Deutscher Meister 2023 🥇
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