Although there were enough chances, FC Bayern lost 2-1 to previously winless Frankfurt Eintracht on Sunday. Thomas Müller collected thoughts afterwards, while Julian Nagelsmann was a bit “shitty. “
Highly dominant, successful in terms of play and sure to score: that’s basically how FC Bayern had presented themselves in (almost) all of their competitive matches so far under new coach Julian Nagelsmann, and they hadn’t lost any of those games. And that was exactly how the reigning champions played this Sunday, when Eintracht Frankfurt presented themselves at the Allianz Arena. The only difference: the FCB was not sure of a goal this time.
Apart from the well-deserved 1:0 by Leon Goretzka in the 29th minute, the Munich team either despaired of Kevin Trapp, like Serge Gnabry only hit the post from the best position or simply missed too rashly, while the Frankfurt team scored twice and, after five draws and one defeat on the first six matchdays, scored a highly surprising 2-1 away victory.
“Of course we are disappointed. Or angry, upset – I don’t know what’s the best way to use it. This is a game we definitely don’t need to lose. There was a lack of effectiveness,” offensive player Thomas Müller told DAZN shortly after the final whistle, visibly disappointed and surprised at the way the chances were used. “If we make it 2:1, then it can also end 3:1 or 4:1. Then we stand again and sing ‘Super-Bayern’. And that’s not how it is with ‘Super-Bayern’. Now we’ve also lost at home. It’s an unfamiliar situation, an unfamiliar feeling.”
A feeling that coach Nagelsmann was also uncomfortable with after his first competitive defeat with the record champions and just a few days after the 5-0 gala in the Champions League against Dynamo Kiev. The 34-year-old described the 1:2 against the SGE, which won for the first time, as “avoidable”. But he said it was always better to have had things in your own hands in a defeat: “We had a lot in our own hands, so you can learn a lot of lessons from that.”
“It doesn’t really matter whether we deserved it or not, in the end we lost,” Nagelsmann concluded. He said he would now simply work through the game with the team after the internationals and then look forward to the next encounter – the top game at Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Sunday, 17 October, 3.30 p.m.).
