Hope for championship after Champions League

Sport likes to write such stories. Heroen of past days play their last big games, perform miraculous deeds and underline their importance before they say goodbye to the very big stage. Although Thomas Müller In the second leg against Inter Milan (2: 2) Some occasions received the series of his merits for FC Bayern Munich, the sport wrote a different story this time. One of a departure without a happy ending. Müllers 163. Champions League game was the last in the FC Bayern jersey. The 36-year-old left open whether more at another club. « I don’t know the planning yet. I also did nothing. It doesn’t matter, » he said after the end of the Champions League quarter-finals.

Müller merged and racked, moved between the lines, prepared degrees, and even had three promising opportunities. But in the autumn of his career, he no longer continues to go online. Sometimes you would have yourself Harry Kane In Müller’s position in front of the gate. The Englishman documented his extraordinary executor qualities in the 1-0 lead, while Müller pushed the ball in goalkeeper Yann Somers arms in added time.

Thomas Müller experiences his greatest champions League moment in the final Dahoam

Müller looked at the bitter end of his royal class era in the Bavaria jersey after the bitter end of his royal class. « I have no sentimental emotions ready today, » he said in the afternoon. Only when the hard core of the Bayern fans in the upper rank of Giuseppe Meazza Stadium did a homage, « the body reacted, » said Müller. « There was a slight approach from goose bumps. I felt an enormous appreciation. » An appreciation that he no longer got in the club. His contract is not extended, with FC Bayern he missed the second final Dahoam. In the first, 2012 against Chelsea FChe had experienced one of his biggest champions League moments. Although he lost Munich The final, but he brought the arena to explosion in the meantime.

Didier Drogba once ended the title dream with his header, this time the former Bayer Benjamin Pavard. Two goals goals after corner kicks, within a few minutes, that reminded of Final 1999 in Barcelona. However, Bavaria was not in the final that came out in the round of the last eight. Sports board member Max Eberl tried to small the damage. The 51-year-old said in the future. He sometimes missed the defensive protection and referred to the first leg against Inter when Bayern according to Müller’s 1: 1 caught the 1: 2 crucial one for the final statement. « These are learning that we made, » said Eberl.

After ending in the Champions League: Joshua Kimmich becomes clear in his criticism

Joshua Kimmich, who once again had to cope with the fact that FC Bayern has not yet won a big title with him in the control center. Kimmich stated: « It is too often the case that we do not leave the pitch as the winner, although we feel that we were the better team. » FC Bayern is rarely converting playful superiority and a increase in opportunities into a successful result.

FC Bayern only won three of the past eight games. Kimmich warned that this trend had to be stopped, otherwise the championship could even be at risk. Bayer Leverkusen has six points behind the Munich. Should this In the relegation threatened 1. FC Heidenheim (Saturday, 3:30 p.m./Sky) Not winning, everything would be questioned on Säbener Straße. Tenor: FC Bayern is no longer convincing in the league – after he was already in the Champions League did not go beyond the self -imposed obligation.

In the defeats against Aston Villa (0: 1), FC Barcelona (1: 4), Feynoord Rotterdam (0: 3) or in the first leg against Inter (1: 2), the problems of Munich opened openly. In the round of 16 against Celtic Glasgow, FC Bayern also changed on the abyss. Internationally, the team of coach Vincent Kompany does not embodate world class defensively or offensive. And after another season without a DFB Cup title, he even misses sovereignty in the league. The next few weeks will show what personnel consequences result in whether Eberl, Kompany or Stars are at the disposition. At FC Bayern, a lot depends on the stories of sport.