Since 2002, 20 years ago, Bayern Munich had not chained four Bundesliga games without a single win like now, with three draws and the defeat suffered this Saturday in the Bavarian duel against Augsburg, which put pressure on it, appeased it, They surprised and defeated them with a goal from Mergim Berisha at the time of the duel, with several impressive saves by goalkeeper Rafal Gikiewicz, especially Manuel Neuer’s header on the penultimate occasion, and with undoubted merit (1-0).
With the presence of the Ecuadorian international Carlos Gruezo as a starter, the team led by Enrico Maaßen achieved their most important victory of the season this Saturday.
Bayern no longer instills so much fear. Stunned by three consecutive draws, relaunched with their victory against FC Barcelona during the week in the Champions League, they ran into an Augsburg without complexes, who looked in the face of an infinitely superior team from any perspective before the match, but who was he opposed with aggressiveness and an advanced, intense and ungovernable pressure for the one who suffers it. Until he knocked him out.
Julian Nagelsmann’s powerful team is vulnerable, when they stalk it as Augsburg did, in that frenetic agitation with which it was used to not give a single meter to anyone from the midfield forward of Bayern Munich. Not a single margin for imagination, maneuver or counterattack towards their territory, defended in the last instance by the goalkeeper Gikiewicz, accurate when none of that worked in some fearsome section.
Such was the panorama half an hour after the clash that Manuel Neuer, who caught up with Sepp Maier with 437 Bundesliga appearances, had been such a protagonist in the game, when Niederlechner’s left-footed shot solved it with the stretch and forcefulness of one of the best goalkeepers in the world, than his counterpart on the other side, Gikiewicz, who deprived Mané of a goal in an individual duel in which he was more astute and caught a shot from Leroy Sané.
Because Augsburg turned every Bayern ball out into an ambush, including fouls (several disproportionate, some bordering on yellow and red), to introduce one of the best midfielders on the planet, Josuha Kimmich, the only one who He has started each of Bayern’s eleven official competition matches this season, in inhospitable territory, trapped in the web that their opponents have woven.
But not only did he manage to appease a rival of such magnitude, but he also caused a disturbing agitation around his area throughout the first half, of which the strange thing was that there was not a single goal, on one side or the other: Musiala did not hit the mark on two occasions, with Thomas Muller as the difference between the lines, but neither did Bauer before Neuer with a free header, only inside the area, over the crossbar.
The local team had a lot of merit in that unbearable rhythm that they maintained beyond the break, with all the physical demand that it implies for anyone, with all the complexity that it implied for the visiting team, which also lacked precision when the entire system of pressure from his adversary with a burst of speed and counterattacks that many of them came to nothing because, at the decisive moment, the pass that made the difference failed.
And suddenly, when they felt better and closer to goal, the opposite happened for Bayern, whose defense of a midfield free kick was appalling. The ball rained into the area pointed to Sané, who lost the duel with an unbecoming ease of such a level against Iago. The Brazilian assisted Mergim Berisha with his left thigh, first, inside the area, at the penalty spot, who made it 1-0 on the brink of the hour of the match.
A problem for Bayern, in question, with a new chance for Muller and another save for Gikiewicz, who also came across as a savior in front of Sané, again with the same left foot with which he denied the goal on the first occasion to Mané and again formidable to sustain the victory of Augsburg; a team that competes for permanence and that triggered the alarms of the current champion, with a final, desperate header from Neuer, but condemned to their first defeat of the course in the Bundesliga, reduced to three of the last 12 points, away to one victory at the top of the table and pending the day to see if it holds up in the Champions League zone. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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