After the 1: 3 defeat in Porto: Bayern Munich: Pain and Hope – tagesspiegel

18:51 clock by Elisabeth Schlammerl

FC Bayern advocates for the 1: 3 to courage. Perhaps because of the difficult overall situation renounced club boss Rummenigge aware of it, too much to criticize the team after the failed appearance in Porto.

Pep Guardiola chewed his food listless. The coach had for the second time in his era at Bayern suffered a bitter defeat and visibly to swallow the traditional midnight banquet after Champions League games on it. A year ago in the semi-final against Real Madrid the Spanish were erred in tactics and personnel selection. This time, the 1: 3 in Porto, brought about three dropouts individual players for the debacle

The fact that the turnovers of Xabi Alonso and Dante in the initial phase, which led to the two goals from Ricardo Quaresmo, the whole. team unsettled, is not uncommon, but amazing for this so mentally mature players.

Bavarian club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge then dared to address in the banquet room at the Sheraton Hotel in Porto, whereupon previously a player and sporting director Matthias Sammer had deliberately omitted, namely to bring the consequences of the injury crisis as one of the reasons. He knew from his own experience, the former professional Rummenigge said into the microphone, “that at some point of the day is here, where one is a bit broken, the legs are heavy and the head is missing, the concentration”.

Club boss Rummenigge talked to criticism back

Perhaps it was this evening at Dragon stadium of FC Porto rather on a combination of unfortunate circumstances, for the third cause of an door was Jérôme Boateng a professional who am Saturday had not been to Frankfurt in the squad, so must have been reasonably fresh. “This has nothing to do with pressure situation or other things. These are things that happen, “said goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who was lucky not to see red card after two minutes for a professional foul against Jackson Martinez. Even more passive style of play in the second half can be explained by loss of substance. Bayern no longer managed in accordance with the first goal by Thiago enforce their game. “We have had too few clear chances to achieve even one goal or two more,” said Neuer. In fact, Guardiola has currently vary little opportunity and to set new trigger points, especially on offense. But that would have been urgently needed on Wednesday.

Perhaps because of the difficult overall situation renounced Rummenigge aware of it, too much to criticize the team after the failed appearance in Porto. “I’m doing me a bit heavy with the review of the game,” he admitted. For according to the 1: 3 in the first leg of the quarter-finals is just nothing lost, Munich can go even further next Tuesday in the second game against the Portuguese. Therefore Rummenigge was well aware that it is more important to the team to give courage to put instead of the finger in the wound.

The Bundesliga match on Saturday at the ailing Hoffenheim expect to have stumbled Portugal Traveler come in handy. On the other hand Guardiola must make a small rotation which is given the injury list but currently the largest possible facing the Champions League. It was important to find Sammer, “processing with greater ease but also convinced address”. Can make great defeat as in Porto stronger that Bayern, these players have shown a few times. “If you want to be a great team, you have to be in a position to put away,” says Sammer. A 2: 0 would suffice the Munich in the second leg to still the semi-finals. “It would not be a football miracle,” says Thomas Müller. “But it will not be a walk.”