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Bayern footballers had the worst time in the Bundesliga’s biggest game against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday night at the 34th minute. Joshua Kimmich had tried at full speed to prevent Dortmund’s Erling Haaland from counterattacking shortly before the center line. He literally threw himself into his barrel from the side, fouled, but couldn’t stop Haaland and stayed crying on the grass for minutes. When he was substituted, he had to be supported by two sides. The diagnosis threatens to turn bad.
Bayern won the duel between the best teams with the same number of points with the same result as in the September Super Cup with 3: 2 (1: 1) and converted a deficit of 0: 1 through Marco Reus. The Munich team won their fourth competitive match with Dortmund in twelve months with goals from David Alaba, Robert Lewandowski and Leroy Sané. Haaland abbreviated for hosts. In the Bundesliga, BVB last beat Bayern two years ago. As Munich defended the top of the table, Dortmund slipped into third place behind Leipzig.
Lucien Favre was disappointed after the match: “Overall, it was a good game, very good for the television viewers. We had many, many chances to score, even in the first half. But we conceded three goals and lost. It’s difficult. to accept “. Hansi Flick agreed with his colleague when evaluating the quality of the game. “The game was sensationally good, there was enormous quality on the pitch. In the end, we were a little more determined,” said the Bayern manager.
Mats Hummels’ thigh muscles had recovered just in time before the game, allowing him to return to Dortmund’s central defense, as did Axel Witsel to return to midfield. However, both changes did not save Dortmund from an early clash, in which Lewandowski threw the ball from the left corner of the six-yard box into the outside net after 39 seconds.
Bayern, in which Bouna Sarr replaced the injured Benjamin Pavard on the right, pushed very specifically on goal from the start, while Dortmund disguised their advances as relief actions. Schalke (3: 0), Saint Petersburg (2: 0), Bielefeld (2: 0) and Bruges (3: 0) had worn Westfalia with patient ball rotation, but against fast, high-pressure Bayern it was absolutely possible. The Munich crowd stayed so tall that the Dortmund crowd actually only worked long balls from the height of the center line. High attempts contributed little, but a flat 21 minute on Giuseppe Reyna almost started the lead. Reyna served Haaland short and steep, but her diagonal shot from the left corner of the six-yard area passed the goal on the right.
Dortmund’s first Bundesliga goal against Bayern in 5:32 am
The Munich team had better chances in the first half: goalkeeper Roman Bürki saved a header (14) and a long-range shot (28) from Leon Goretzka. In the middle, Dortmund was lucky in the 24th minute that a Lewandowski goal after a two-minute control after a Serge Gnabry cross was only invalid because Lewandowski’s right knee protruded slightly offside.
In fact, the first half was over, Dortmund were happy to return to the dressing room without conceding a goal, when they met in the 45th minute for the first time in a Bundesliga game against Bayern Munich in 5:32 hours. After the then last goal on November 10, 2018, the then Dortmund Paco Alcacer managed to win 3-2, this time Reus sank a low cross by Raphael Guerreiro from five meters under the roof of the Munich goal net.
The first part had to be lengthened because Kimmich was lying for a long time after the violent clash with Haaland that he himself had caused and then had to be substituted. While he had to be escorted from the field limping and crying, referee Manuel Gräfe showed him a yellow card. Even the Dortmund players comforted the desperate Kimmich.
The duel with Erling Haaland, in which Joshua Kimmich was injured.
(Photo: Pool / Martin Meissner – Pool / Getty Ima)
Bayern used the four-minute stoppage time to equalize 1: 1 in the officially appointed 45 + 4. Minute. Alaba converted an indirect free kick from 19 meters on his first goal of the season as Dortmund’s Thomas Meunier was still deflecting the ball. Before kick-off, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had emphasized to Sky that the door was not yet fully closed for Alaba, that a solution could be found for a possible contract extension in which both parties could save face.
It took Bayern almost as long as in first-half injury time to score another goal after the restart: 3:15 minutes. A Lucas Hernández cross from the left in the 49th minute headed Lewandowski from nine meters in the air duel against Hummels for Bürki to make it 2-1 in Dortmund’s goal. The Munich side picked up the pace immediately in the second half and could have headed for victory earlier if a 16-meter shot from Kingsley Coman had missed the post in the 51st minute. Another three minutes later, Bürki dramatically erased a dangerous center of Coman with the hand. Dortmund was to some extent powerless against Munich’s increased pace.
The Munich team withdrew a bit in the last half hour and allowed one or another opportunity through the Dortmund winger Reyna and Reus in the middle. This also led to the counter-opportunities now expected. In the 80th minute a counterattack began from his own penalty area, which Lewandowski designed in the middle and conceded to replace Leroy Sané, who slipped down the right to the left corner to make it 3-1.
A consoling character had a consoling character for Dortmund in the 83rd minute when Guerreiro in midfield shot so well behind Bayern’s last line as Haaland accepted and converted to 2: 3. The hosts prevented with their bet on the bitter End another debate on mindset. In injury time, he was rightly denied the validity of another Lewandowski goal. The victory was deserved.
