Bayern Munich suffered their third defeat within the area of eight days on Sunday, dropping 3-2 to Bochum within the Bundesliga.
The defeat to a workforce that Bayern have overwhelmed 7-0 on three events since 2021 adopted up a disastrous 1-0 loss to Lazio within the UEFA Champions League and a doubtlessly title-deciding 3-0 thumping by the hands of Bayer Leverkusen final Saturday.
This is all our takeaways from FC Hollywood’s defeat to Bochum.
Let’s name a spade a spade: Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern Munich have been completely shambolic this season.
Devoid of a tactical id, devoid of unity, devoid of something that makes a soccer workforce ‘good’.
Tuchel has relied on the person high quality of Harry Kane, Leroy Sane and co. to tug him out of a good few holes over the course of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, however the egregious deficiencies that he is triggered his workforce to have lastly reared their ugly head during the last week.
In every week through which he dropped Matthijs de Ligt for Eric Dier, dropped Leroy Sane for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, performed an unfamiliar three-at-the-back formation to unsuccessfully match up with Bayer Leverkusen, Tuchel led Bayern to a few consecutive defeats which have put them getting ready to UEFA Champions League elimination by the hands of Lazio and eight factors adrift of Leverkusen within the title race.
For a workforce like Bayern, who spent £150m on Harry Kane and Kim Min-jae so as to strengthen in the summertime, that merely is not acceptable.
Previous to the sport on Sunday, Tuchel insisted that Kane was “unhappy” with the service being offered to him. And contemplating Kane mustered only one shot on objective in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen, his emotions had been in all probability justified heading into the sport in opposition to Bochum.
After the sport in opposition to Bochum although Kane cannot actually have any complaints. The ex-Tottenham man scored one objective within the sport, but additionally fluffed plenty of guilt-edge possibilities.
Probably the most surprising of stated misses got here early within the first half and late within the second.
Kane was gifted a beautiful probability to make it 2-0 within the 18th minute when Jamal Musiala performed a surprising outside-of-the-foot go by means of the guts of the Bochum defence and into his path. With simply the goalkeeper to beat nevertheless, he ballooned embarrassingly over the crossbar.
Within the 92nd minute the striker spurned a fair higher probability. Kane was discovered utterly unmarked by Mathys Tel on the again publish with a whipped cross, however might solely discover the goalkeeper’s midriff together with his subsequent, painfully tame, headed effort on objective.
Loads of gamers have struggled in a Bayern shirt during the last week, however none have struggled fairly as badly as Dayot Upamecano.
Simply 4 days after being despatched off within the Champions League defeat to Lazio, Upamecano’s errant elbow within the penalty field earned him one other pink card and gifted Bochum their third – game-winning – objective of the sport on Sunday.
Together with the sending off and gifting away a penalty the defender additionally managed to lose all 5 of his defensive duals through the sport.
A nasty day on the workplace all spherical.
You in all probability learn ‘Bayern sport halted on account of fan protest’ and thought: “ah, Bayern followers should be protesting how bloody terrible their workforce are proper now”. However you would be unsuitable.
The protest which stopped play on two separate events on the Vonovia Ruhrstadion was a part of a large-scale fan displeasure on the plan to promote a stake of the Bundesliga’s future income to personal fairness buyers.
To date the fan-led protests – which have concerned throwing tennis balls onto the pitch throughout video games – have led to potential purchaser Blackstone dropping out of talks, however count on the dissension to proceed whereas CVC Capital Companions stay within the acquisition.
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