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Saturday October 17, 2020
You come home from school and teach Arminia Bielefeld a lesson: despite their busy schedule, FC Bayern show no more weaknesses and aim for the top of the Bundesliga table. Munich newcomer Douglas Costa offers an amazing time.
Fabian Klos has many qualities. One previously unknown to Arminia Bielefeld’s forward: speed. Well, Klos, this pretty massive attacker, was lurking and he was rewarded. In the 76th minute he received a fatal pass back from Javi Martínez in the debutant’s Bundesliga match against Bayern. Klos left for Manuel Neuer when Corentin Tolisso ran into the parade, it’s not fair, so the Frenchman saw red. Bielefeld’s team finally got an interesting free kick.
And that made it one of the weirdest scenes of the season. Because behind the wall that Manuel Neuer had built, the newcomer Douglas Costa lay down. He just lay down behind him and stretched out. You haven’t seen anything like it in the Bundesliga either. And apparently the 30-year-old Brazilian irritated his teammates. They became questions. And finally they gave him some advice. It should lie backwards. Costa did not understand correctly. There was laughter and discussion. He finally understood what was (well) wanted. Not with your stomach glued to the ball, but with your back. If hit, it will certainly hurt less and prevent a possible handball.
Where did Costa get this surprising idea? Well, maybe from the Regionalliga West? There, the footballers of Rot-Weiss Essen also (first) decided in the afternoon in the top match against Preußen Münster (1-0) by the variant four men standing and one lying down (according to the live ticker it should have been Jan- Lucas Dorow). By the way, Joshua Holtby, Lewis Holtby’s brother, took the free kick for Münster. You know him from his time at FC Schalke 04, VfL Bochum, FSV Mainz 05, Tottenham Hotspur or from his time at Hamburger SV. He also played for Fulham and is currently under contract with Blackburn Rovers. But it does not matter.
Lewandowski and Müller dominate
Well, in the end, this strange moment was completely unnecessary (as with RWE). Instead of shooting flat (to the Costa block), Marcel Hartel tried a quick move. Vain. The wall (except Costa, of course) jumped and blocked the ball to the corner. Bayern could afford this capricious luxury because the match was already decided despite being outnumbered. Thomas Müller (8th / 51st) and Robert Lewandowski (25th / 45th) had scored twice to make it 4-0 before Ritsu Dōan successfully completed the game for Bielefeld (58th).
“The first half was close to what we expected. But we had about five minutes in which we were too careless,” summarized Bayern coach Hansi Flick. “I didn’t like that very much and we are making life difficult for ourselves. We should have let the ball run better.” But in view of the clear overall success, the coach was also forgiving. “Of course we can defend better, but the fact is that we are currently missing some units. We had a week to prepare for the first game and so far we haven’t had much training as a team.
The game was accompanied by another strange fact: before the main game of this fourth day, the FC Bayern players did not change in the guest cabin of the stadium, but in the nearby Gertrud-Bäumer-Realschule. According to a report in the newspaper “Bild”, the reason for this was the strict rules of the crown that could not be fully implemented in the catacombs of the “Bielefelder Alm”. According to the “Bild” report, the Bavarians “apparently suggested this at their own request”. The high school is only about 50 meters from the sand. The Munich team headed out onto the pitch on a specially designed black mat.
