This evening you have not forget in Munich, Niko Kovac. The 0:3 against Borussia Mönchengladbach was the highest defeat in the term of office of the Croats as a Trainer of FC Bayern. The home swatter marked at the beginning of October to a low point in the football League. In the table, the German series champion crashed back to sixth place. Now it comes on Saturday (18.30 clock/Sky) in the top match, third against Second in the Borussia-Park for the rematch. And Gladbach should not be for Kovac and the Bayern in the title fight back to the stumbling stone.
Bayern coach Niko Kovac is not a football Visionary
“It’s really now to the Finish. Because everyone wants to achieve his goals. We must see that we are points in Gladbach. We will need the three points to make,“ said Kovac. “Now we have important months ahead of us. I hope that the team and the coach achieve the results we need,” said Board boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who formulated the Munich-based claims: “It would be nice if we are allowed to show at the end of may and again on the town hall balcony, the one or the other silver goods.”
FC Bayern will measure success in trophies. And Kovac, as a coach, not a football Visionary, has prescribed to his all-star ensemble cast a very pragmatic outcome of football: More defensive stability, less offensive spectacle. “We have drawn the right conclusions, both with our heads as well as with the players. And we are back on a good path,“ said Kovac of the changes in comparison to the bitter 0:3-rebuff against Gladbach in the autumn of 2018.
Of the last eleven League Bayern have won playing ten and thus 30 out of 33 possible points taken. The residue on Borussia Dortmund is continuously shrunk. “We did it, but we are not yet where we want to go. We want to get the title, and for that, we need to stretch us,“ said Kovac. Fear opponents Gladbach could catch Bayern in the right Moment. The Borussia falters just lost in their own stadium last twice 0:3, against Hertha, then against Wolfsburg. Nevertheless, Kovac warns: “Any team has in the season, two phases that do not run so well. But Borussia Mönchengladbach is not really good, even if the last results were.“
drop-down list could be Bayern’s undoing
A Handicap, the Munich-based personnel situation is. Leon Goretzka (ankle), David Alaba (tendon irritation) and Franck Ribéry (gastro-intestinal) to expand the drop-down list, on the already Corentin Tolisso, Kingsley Coman and Arjen Robben. After all, national goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was able to take up to the infection on Friday, the journey to the West. “We don’t want to cry. We still have a lot of good players on the bow,” said Kovac: “We need to emergence of stretch in the Bundesliga, no matter with whom we’re up there.”
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0:3-defeat against Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern is the final crisis
The debates to disgruntled professionals in the squad (Müller, Rafinha) may operate the coach with Statements. And the discussion of the limited offensive Shine tries to invalidate Kovac with Numbers. “We have scored 51 goals, two on average per game,” he thought. It is, ultimately, to “a healthy level” between Defensive and Offensive. “This is too little”, had striker Robert Lewandowski after the 1:0 counter-Hertha to the low attack swing. Kovac responded soothingly: “of course the Lewy needs support.” Without Ribéry, Robben and Coman, Thomas Müller could be in Gladbach, once again, a helpful offensive Bayern-answer. (dpa)
