Bayern Munich suffered their third defeat in the house of eight days on Sunday, dropping 3-2 to Bochum in the Bundesliga.
The defeat to a workforce that Bayern have overwhelmed 7-0 on three events since 2021 adopted up a disastrous 1-0 loss to Lazio in the UEFA Champions League and a probably title-deciding 3-0 thumping at the palms of Bayer Leverkusen final Saturday.
Here’s all our takeaways from FC Hollywood’s defeat to Bochum.
Let’s name a spade a spade: Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern Munich have been totally shambolic this season.
Devoid of a tactical id, devoid of unity, devoid of something that makes a soccer workforce ‘good’.
Tuchel has relied on the particular person high quality of Harry Kane, Leroy Sane and co. to tug him out of a good few holes over the course of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, however the egregious deficiencies that he is triggered his workforce to have lastly reared their ugly head over the final week.
In per week wherein he dropped Matthijs de Ligt for Eric Dier, dropped Leroy Sane for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, performed an unfamiliar three-at-the-back formation to unsuccessfully match up with Bayer Leverkusen, Tuchel led Bayern to 3 consecutive defeats which have put them on the brink of UEFA Champions League elimination at the palms of Lazio and eight factors adrift of Leverkusen in the title race.
For a workforce like Bayern, who spent £150m on Harry Kane and Kim Min-jae to be able to strengthen in the summer season, that merely is not acceptable.
Prior to the recreation on Sunday, Tuchel insisted that Kane was “unhappy” with the service being offered to him. And contemplating Kane mustered only one shot on purpose towards Bayer Leverkusen, his emotions have been in all probability justified heading into the recreation towards Bochum.
After the recreation towards Bochum although Kane cannot actually have any complaints. The ex-Tottenham man scored one purpose in the recreation, but additionally fluffed various guilt-edge possibilities.
The most surprising of mentioned misses got here early in the first half and late in the second.
Kane was gifted an exquisite likelihood to make it 2-0 in the 18th minute when Jamal Musiala performed a surprising outside-of-the-foot go by way of the coronary heart of the Bochum defence and into his path. With simply the goalkeeper to beat nevertheless, he ballooned embarrassingly over the crossbar.
In the 92nd minute the striker spurned a good higher likelihood. Kane was discovered fully unmarked by Mathys Tel at the again publish with a whipped cross, however may solely discover the goalkeeper’s midriff along with his subsequent, painfully tame, headed effort on purpose.
Plenty of gamers have struggled in a Bayern shirt over the final week, however none have struggled fairly as badly as Dayot Upamecano.
Just 4 days after being despatched off in the Champions League defeat to Lazio, Upamecano’s errant elbow in the penalty field earned him one other purple card and gifted Bochum their third – game-winning – purpose of the recreation on Sunday.
Along with the sending off and making a gift of a penalty the defender additionally managed to lose all 5 of his defensive duals throughout the recreation.
A foul day at the workplace all spherical.
You in all probability learn ‘Bayern recreation halted as a consequence of fan protest’ and thought: “ah, Bayern fans must be protesting how bloody awful their team are right now”. But you would be unsuitable.
The protest which stopped play on two separate events at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion was a part of a large-scale fan displeasure at the plan to promote a stake of the Bundesliga’s future income to personal fairness traders.
So far the fan-led protests – which have concerned throwing tennis balls onto the pitch throughout video games – have led to potential purchaser Blackstone dropping out of talks, however count on the dissension to proceed whereas CVC Capital Partners stay all for the acquisition.
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