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AWhen Manuel Neuer fell to the ground, it was too late. The ball that Stuttgart’s Philipp Förster had fired into his goal from five meters couldn’t even stop it, which actually stopped everything. When Neuer hit the ground, the ball had slipped away, flat and fast. That doesn’t happen often at this time. And yet Förster was not happy.
On Saturday afternoon, a missed shot decided the Bundesliga match between VfB Stuttgart and FC Bayern. If Philipp Förster had fired the ball a few inches further to the right in the 35th minute, his Stuttgart would have led 2-0. It is not unlikely that everything would have turned out differently then. Even before that, Stuttgart had taken Bayern by surprise with their quick attacks. Thus it fell 1-0 through Tanguy Coulibaly (20th). The 2-0 would have been almost like that. But that’s how it happened as it had to be. In the 38th minute, Kingsley Coman scored the 1-1. In the 45th minute, Robert Lewandowski made it 2-1. Douglas Costa made it 3-1 in the 87th minute. Typical Bavaria.
Obstacles cut through the league
At the Stuttgart stadium a Bundesliga steeplechase has started for Bayern, requiring some clean jumps until the Christmas holidays. He will play Leipzig, Union Berlin, Wolfsburg and Leverkusen one after the other for the next three weeks. A look at the table reveals: These are four of the first six teams. The newcomers from Stuttgart have yet to reach that level, but with coach Matarazzo Pellegrino they have become a rival that even Bayern cannot ignore. “Stuttgart,” Hansi Flick said before the game, “is a very strong team with fast players. They scored the most goals on the counterattack. ” Flick didn’t just say that. In recent weeks, it was these fast players that his defense and system were vulnerable to.
Do you need any proof? Then within the match, minute 20: Förster captured the ball on the right side and played it abruptly on Silas Wamangituka, who caught it roughly in the penalty area. Goalkeeper Neuer slid across the grass face down. A few inches, then he would have had his fingers on the ball at the crucial moment, like so many times in recent weeks. But he didn’t make it, Coulibaly did – 1-0.
Three crucial scenes followed in three minutes: Förster shot from five meters from the door and a few scenes later at Neuer’s foot. Then a counterattack from Bayern. On the left side of the box, Coman landed a hook and sank the ball into the goal. It was 1: 1, not 2: 0. And even 2: 1 for Munich at half-time: Lewandowski, who had already headed the post in the 3rd minute, took the lead from 20 meters. So it is with Bayern.
But that did not intimidate the fast Stuttgart. They attacked bravely in the second half and had some chances again, especially in the last 20 minutes. Bayern scored the goal again. It was substitute Costa who decided a match with a full chip shot in which Bayern jumped high enough.
