M.w ith demonstrative determination, Felix Zwayer stepped into the locker room at the end of a rousing football evening; open umbrellas had to protect him from beer mugs angrily thrown onto the field. The referee had decided a dramatic Bundesliga game with two very controversial decisions, maybe you can even say: ruined.
“It’s a shame that such a scissor-kick decides the game,” said Dortmund’s Emre Can after the painful 2: 3 (1: 2) defeat against FC Bayern. “Now we’re talking about the referee again, that happened a little too often in the past after games against Bayern.” Thomas Müller sounded similar when he said: “I can understand the frustration. In the end, the bitter thing is that this intense game is decided in such a way. ”And the championship threatens to get pretty boring again.
Especially since Dortmund could have gotten a penalty when the score was 2-2, but in this dispute Zwayer had not watched the duel between Lucas Hernandez and Marco Reus on the screen. Shortly thereafter, he made the decision to impose the controversial hand penalty against BVB, which allowed Bayern to score their winning goal. “It’s just a shame that such a game is decided like this,” says Dortmund coach Marco Rose. Because previously, the 15,000 spectators had seen a gorgeous duel between the two largest clubs in the country.
A spectacle in the top game
Already in the first nine minutes they experienced an exciting roller coaster ride. Julian Brandt had scored early on after a clever pass from Jude Bellingham and a nice feint to make it 1-0 (5th minute), whereupon the reduced audience showed how loud it can get. But it wasn’t long before Robert Lewandowski equalized (9th). Mats Hummels had played a terrible bad pass at the center line, which Müller pursued before Lewandowski picked up the free ball and shot into the short corner.
As a result, it became clear what has shaped the game of both teams since the beginning of the season: Once an opponent has bridged midfield, there are always large gaps in front of their own goal. Both allowed a large number of offensive actions, and the spectators caught their breath in a very short frequency. Sometimes because the scream was on their lips, sometimes because they had to freeze in fear that the ball would land in the goal of their own team. Reus reported on the “unbelievably large spaces” that arose on the Munich defense and said: “We always had the feeling that we could win here.”
Again and again the attackers did not make the optimal decision – on both sides. Either Brandt or Lewandowski hesitated too long, or Haaland and Coman did not finish precisely enough from a good position. It was a spectacle, highly intense and exciting, but far from being flawless. Courage and willingness to take risks were the defining elements, which reveals a lot about the basic attitude of the two trainers. “It wasn’t always the best football,” said Rose, “but there was a fire inside.”
This mixture of high intensity and the willingness not to have to control every situation made the game a wild ride through the penalty areas, and the 1: 2 matched that. Shortly before half-time, Raphael Guerreiro failed to clear an attempt in his own penalty area, whereupon the ball from Hummels’ body landed at the feet of Kingsley Coman, who scored the second Munich goal (44th).
That was kind of happy because BVB had a number of situations that could have resulted in a second goal. But Dortmund simply made the clearer mistakes in this first half and still had the right answer ready immediately after the break. Bellingham put forward again, this time Erling Haaland slipped the ball into a tiny gap between the post and Manuel Neuer’s glove (48th). Shortly afterwards, Dortmund could have got their penalty to make it 3-2 (53rd), on the other hand, the fabulous Gregor Kobel fended off a hard shot from Coman (57th), before Haaland’s shot off the line (58th). ) scratched.
This Bundesliga drama finally suffered a break when Julian Brandt and Dayot Upamecano crashed their heads badly near the center line. Brandt had to be carried from the square, but was able to send another photo with a raised thumb later that evening. But somehow the magic was gone now. And the fact that the 2: 3 fell after the controversial intervention of the video assistant drove the festive mood away. Even the Munich fans sang: “You’re ruining our game.”
Hummels had the ball flown to the arm after a corner in his own penalty area, there was definitely no intention, but there was the penalty that Lewandowski converted (77th). Dortmund coach Marco Rose, who had already been warned, complained so violently that he saw the yellow-red card, the collective intoxication of the first hour was over and did not even return in ten-minute stoppage time. Even if the Munich team could of course celebrate a great victory.
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