Title dreams in the DFB-Pokal
According to the FC Bayern: The eternal Second, third, Fourth, squinting at the pot
Disillusionment on Thursday morning in Munich, after skipping the eighth finals of the DFB Cup. Football’s second-tier Holstein Kiel have succeeded against the record Champions a Sensation. In the penalty shootout defeated shoot the North German the Triple-winner with 6:5. Consequently, the Munich-based left late Wednesday evening, with hanging heads the Kieler place. For the first Time since 1992, Bayern not making it through to the second round. The player’s Jersey for the first Time her newly-translated Retro, based on the game times, 91-93, wore, was rather due to the random and for the Fans rather beside the point. Much worse: your team will not be able to defend the Triple from the previous year, with three trophies in a season. “Yes, after the 1:0 I thought to myself, well this is a sure thing against Kiel. ‘ve been looking forward, got a little on the side looked. But it’s good that it runs out then, so I didn’t expect. Annoys me, of course, DFB-Pokal, that’s a beautiful Cup, where man likes to watch. But, Yes, I would say.” “Although it does not want to admit Bayern really. But I think that in the back of the head of the players the thought was: We are the great FC Bayern, we play against a small keel. And Yes, then you have underestimated the might be a little bit. And also, I think the last games have shown that it goes a little in that direction.” “Nobody I think expected that Bayern is eliminated then really against Kiel. And there is also a difference if Bayern loses a game, or actually from the Cup flies. And in the second round, after I think after 20 years, for the first Time so early. This is, of course, been a bitter blow.” After 120 minutes against bold Kiel, it is 2:2. In the subsequent penalty, the Kiel shoot scored all five shots from the point, Bavaria’s supplementary players Marc Roca failed at the fifth Munich penalty to Kiel’s goalkeeper Ioannis Gelios. A strength-sapping game for Bayern. On Sunday you have to defend, namely, the standings in the Bundesliga with a home game against SC Freiburg. Table second RB Leipzig will have to win in Wolfsburg to Bayern more on the heels.
This is the current situation in German football: If Bayern fails surprisingly, can finally hope to others on a title. So some hope but will probably die in the Cup round again.
For the title-hungry persecutor of the DFB-Cup ignominy of Triple-winners Bayern an opportunity and a warning at the same time. The completely surprising the Munich penalty kick K. o. in the snow at the football second division side Holstein Kiel Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and co. offers a huge opportunity to breast-feed for years, have grown their own longing for a title in this may, finally. However, showed the first second-round Of the Bayern since 2000/2001 also, how fast in the crowded Corona-season a supposed duty to the stumbling block for all of the titles dreams can be.
This Tuesday and Wednesday, the eighth finals are on the program. And while Robert Lewandowski and his colleagues have to do it in front of the TV and, shortly before the Club world Cup for a couple of days the waste have to catch, hatch, Dortmund, Leipzig, and the last in the Bundesliga, multiple Faller Werkself Bayer Leverkusen in their new roles as Cup favorites. “That Bavaria is no longer in power, it is certainly not heavier. But now, many Clubs see their Chance,” said Leipzig’s national team player Lukas Klostermann in MDR: “You can’t afford a slip-up.”
FC Bayern-hunters: Nearly all of them have slight Loose
Together, the Trio in addition to the increased chances of winning the title by Bayern and the supposed luck of the draw, which has given all three Clubs is feasible the second round tasks. The 2020s-Finalist Leverkusen a guest appearance on Tuesday (18.30 clock/Sky) in the last remaining fourth division side Rot-Weiss Essen. Dortmund receives on Tuesday (20.45 clock/ARD and Sky) second-tier SC Paderborn. And also for the second Leipzig the home game against second League team VfL Bochum on Wednesday (18.30 clock/Sky) is a must.
The duration of the winner from Munich, not for the first time since 2009, the Cup semi-finals, enlarges not only the ambitions of the in the League so unsuccessful hunters, but also the presence in the media. Usually because the Bayern game on Free TV is always set, this time, the ARD shows on Tuesday Dortmund against Paderborn (20.45) and on Wednesday, the only Bundesliga game of the round, VfB Stuttgart against Borussia Mönchengladbach (kick-off 2045 CET).
“A top match on Wednesday night, live on TV, in front of the masses, no Pay-TV. This is a super competition. This is our Champions League. We want everything to invest and more to come,” said Stuttgart’s sporting Director Sven Mislintat the Situation.
Also Gladbach sees his opportunity,
The athletic tension in soccer-Germany is likely to do, the new constellation will in any case – especially since Bayern’s run in Bundesliga in the face of seven points ahead of the ninth title in the series. In the Cup there was for the people of Munich under Hansi Flick and predecessor Niko Kovac’s last two titles in the series, prior to that, Eintracht Frankfurt (2018), and Dortmund (2017) were allowed to after all, one of the rare triumphs of cheer. Both Clubs defeated in the season the all-dominant Munich.
This sporty master’s examination has accepted the Topclubs in this season’s second-tier. Also Borussia Mönchengladbach and captain Lars Stindl in the first final since 1995 than in previous years. hope this is the reason why “The dream of Berlin, I would meet me, and just this year, as Bayern are out, there is a Chance. We will do everything possible to take advantage of you,” said Stindl of the “Rheinische Post” in front of a heavy task in Stuttgart. In the final, in 1995, the foal was managed well until today last title win, in 2017, the Borussia had failed in a penalty shootout in the semi-final at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Without the Bayern, there’s no clear favorite
How unusually open the fight for the Cup victory in this season’s shows have a look at the bookmaker. With a title-tip on the FC Bayern, otherwise, not too much money, emerged From the Munich-based, there is no clear favorite. Even for a Cup winner, Dortmund and Leipzig, it returns in the success case, more than three times the use.
