Following last weekend's 3-0 defeat to Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen, Thomas Tuchel led Bayern Munich to a midweek Champions League 1/ In the first leg of the 8 finals, in the case of 10 away players, 0:1 defeat to the Serie A team Lazio, what made Bayern supporters even more embarrassed was that the whole team in the two games combined only had 1 shot on target, the team was as many as 5 points behind Leverkusen in the Bundesliga standings, and the Champions League away to Lazio lost the opportunity to advance, Tuchel, who has led the team to lose two titles this season, still has a chance to redeem himself in Bayern?
Kane's crownless physique and Tuchel's reign of chaos
Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga giant, did not hesitate to break the record of the team's all-time recruitment spending (exceeding the 80 million euros paid by the club for French defender Lucas Hernandez in 2019, about 69 million pounds), and signed the British star Harry Kane, who is over 30 years old, for more than 100 million euros;
For Bayern, after losing Lewandowski, they urgently need a top center forward to fill the void left by the Poles, for the player, 435 appearances for Tottenham Hotspur, contributing 280 goals and 64 assists, becoming the club's all-time top scorer, winning the Premier League Golden Boot three times and Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year twice, these results have not been exchanged for even one trophy, and Kane decided to make an important decision to leave his comfort zone when his career was still at its peak;
But in the first official game wearing the Bayern jersey, the players and the club suffered a slap in the face, the 2023 German Super Cup Leipzig defeated Bayern Munich 3:0, Spanish striker Olmo scored a hat trick, Kane, who had just joined the team, came off the bench in the second half without any achievements, and there is still no championship honor in his personal career, according to statistics, counting the German Super Cup, Kane lost all 5 finals and 5 times in his career, which is not over when the German Cup against the third-division team Saarbrücken, Bayern was beaten by the opponent 2:1 away to stop in the second round, and lost two championships in a row soon after the start of the new season, no wonder the German media ridiculedKane's crownless constitution began to manifest itself on his debut in Germany.
Although Kane continued his scoring form in England after the start of the league, as of last weekend he contributed 28 goals and 8 assists in 28 games in all competitions, including 24 goals and 5 assists in 21 rounds of the Bundesliga, but the league has been silent for a long time this year, the old team Leverkusen, under the tutelage of young coach Alonso, has been ahead of the Bundesliga hegemon by as many as 5 points after defeating Bayern by 3 goals in the last round of the battle of Tianwang Mountain, and the momentum of the league's 11 consecutive championships may be drawn to an end this year;
In the final round of last season, he only relied on his title rival Dort, and he dropped the chain to complete the defense of the title, and Tuchel's Bayern not only made fans and celebrities shout incomprehensible, but also broke a series of shameful records in team history:
1. German Super Cup Bayern 0:3 Leipzig, Bayern suffered the largest defeat in the German Super Cup in team history;
2. Tuchel is the first Bayern coach to lead the team to lose five of its first 13 games since Learby in 1992;
3. Bayern 1:2 Saarbrücken in the second round of the German Cup, after November 2000, Bayern was eliminated by the third division or below for the first time;
4. Bayern 0:0 Copenhagen in the Champions League group stage, and the team was kept clean by the opponent at home for the first time in the Champions League since 2018;
5. Bundesliga Bayern defeated Frankfurt 1:5, and scored 3 goals in 36 minutes by the opponent, which is the first team in the Bundesliga to do this in 2004, and the last time Bayern conceded 5 goals in the first 60 minutes of the Bundesliga was in 1975, and the opponent was also Frankfurt;
6. Bundesliga Bayern 0:1 Bremen, the first time in 4 years that the team failed to score at home in the Bundesliga, Bremen had previously won 32 consecutive games against Bayern, which was the longest record of the same opponent in German football;
7. Bayern 0:1 Lazio in the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, the last time the Italian capital club won the Champions League knockout round, it was back to defeating Valencia in 2000;
8. In the past two games, Bayern has shot 26 times, only 1 on target and 0 goals;
9. Tuchel has lost 10 of his 43 official games, the same as his predecessor Nagelsmann's 84;
10. Bayern lost to an Italian team in the Champions League for the first time in 13 years, and the last time was to lose to Inter in 2011.
In view of Tuchel's chaotic situation at Bayern, perhaps the Champions League result will be his last straw for the club, even if the management still spares no effort to express their full support for their own manager, but there is probably not much time left for Tuchel to redeem himself, just before the first leg of the 1/8 knockout round with Lazio, the club posted the team's past brilliant results against Serie A teams and Lazio, and now it seems that this may be too optimistic about the difficulty of the game:
1. In the past two meetings with Lazio, they have won all of them, scoring 6 goals and conceding 2 goals;
2. In the past 13 years, Bayern has never lost to an Italian team in the Champions League;
3. In the past 12 tournaments, Bayern has advanced to the top 8 11 times;
4. In this Champions League, Kane was directly involved in 7 goals (4 goals and 3 assists), the most among all players;
5. Bayern has won all of its last 5 Champions League matches against Italian teams, including the two-legged match against Lazio in the 2020-21 Champions League 1/8 finals;
6. Bayern has never lost the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, with a record of 7 wins and 4 draws;
German star Klose, who has played for both teams, said in an interview, " I'm the kind of person who always prays for the underdogs, and because I've been at Lazio for a year longer than I've been at Bayern Munich, I think it's going to be a much more exciting matchup than the last time, but I also think Bayern will qualify again this time, when [2021] some Lazio players played in the Champions League for the first time and now they can better navigate the big stage, I hope the Olympic Stadium will be full, these fanatical fans can cheer you up, that's my personal experience;"
"Lazio have a lot of interesting players in their squad, such as Immobile, Alberto and Felipe Brown. Anderson, and Lazzari is also very impactful on the wings, I think these players can surprise them, and defensively, they have to come together against players like Kane and Musiala, [the managers of both teams] have a similar philosophy, it's a lot of short passes and possession, Bayern are better individually, but Maurizio Sarri is also doing a good job, you can see his distinctive characteristics in Lazio, and when things are going well, the team will be very watchable. ”
When the whistle blew at the start of the game, the outside world agreed that Bayern's promotion would be a high probability event, and it was soon discovered that the home team's preparations for this game confirmed Muller's remarks after the three-goal defeat to Bayer Leverkusen that "the intensity of training is seriously out of touch with reality", and the injuries and shortcomings of many important players in the team also restricted Tuchel's line-up to a certain extent: Koeman, Gnabry, Alphonso, Laimer, especially left-back Alphonso, could not play, making it difficult for Bayern's attack on the left side to have speed and enough impact;
After the tentative stage at the beginning, Lazio, who had an average league performance this season, quickly figured out Bayern's attacking strength, and the dominance of the game and the balance of victory gradually began to tilt towards the home team;
Muller's starting XI can often play a decisive role in a format such as the knockout stages of the Champions League, and the same can be said for reference 21/ Real Madrid in the 22nd season, led by the three midfielders and veterans such as Benzema, in the process of continuously eliminating teams such as Paris, Liverpool, Manchester City, etc., although they were all in a disadvantageous situation of falling behind in the score, the advantage of the majority of veterans can make the whole team quickly adjust their mentality, gradually incorporate the game into their accustomed rhythm of play, and then give the opponent a fatal blow at a critical moment.
But the problem is that the German veteran raised the "serious disconnect between intensity and reality in training" , It is obvious that the spearhead will be pointed at the lack of coach's training and on-the-spot command ability, which is the first in the two wings of this game, Musiala and Sane are particularly obvious, put Kane such an efficient center forward in the middle, the two German internationals played the whole game like a chicken rib performance like scratching the boots, if Alphonso at left back can play, maybe the problem on this road will not be so serious, and when the veteran Muller gave these two a few demonstrations, they still can't quickly understand the mystery, Bayern's goal in this game can only be set to fight for undefeated。
In the 31st minute, Sane's free kick from outside the penalty area was almost his best moment in the first 45 minutes, and Musiala on the opposite side of the cross and the grasp of the shooting opportunity became an important factor in dragging down the efficiency of the team's attack.
After watching the team's performance in the first half, Tuchel, as the manager, should have made tactical changes earlier, but after 15 minutes of the break, Bayern did not show much change in the second half compared to the first, they all seemed to be waiting for the opponent to make a mistake or the end of the final whistle;
At the beginning of the second half, Bayern's two central defenders Yu Parmecano and Kim Min-jae took the initiative to make mistakes before the opposite side, but Isakson's single shot was successfully blocked by Neuer, so that the front attack is like a headless fly, and the defense frequently digs holes and makes mistakes, in fact, it has indicated that Lazio is too far away from breaking the balance of the score on the field, and the only goal in the 66th minute was due to a mistake in Sane's front;
In the 66th minute, Musiala lost the ball in front, Sane's active counter-attack became an "assist" by mistake After getting the ball, Anderson ran to the Bayern penalty area at high speed, the Brazilian on the left side of Immobile, after receiving the former's pass, dribbled the ball and never found a chance to get up, the ball was blocked to the feet of Isaksen, and the referee stepped on the opponent in the penalty area on this side, the referee showed him a red card and awarded a penalty, the Lazio captain then made it overnight, and then Bayern, who played with one less person away, was forced to replace Goretzka with De Ligt, who was not reused by Tuchel, but there was no way to take the home team when the number of people on the field was equal, and how to start scoring goals when there was one less person？
When Tuchel, who couldn't stand the poor offensive performance in the 81st minute, chose to replace Muller and Sane with Choupo-Moting and Tel, but this adjustment that should have been made in half an hour is now belated, and who is it to see? The three central defenders who lost to Bayer Leverkusen returned to the back four in this game, Tuchel's efforts to change the status quo of the team have not been reflected in actual combat, as for the big problem between the training ground and the place of play, which part of Bayern is unknown to the outside world, it is difficult for anyone to give an accurate answer, but one thing is certain, the Bundesliga giants who can create many massacres in the past Champions League have only been reduced to two games with one shot on target, and Tuchel as the coach is hard to blame。
The first leg of the knockout round was lost to Lazio for the first time in 11 seasons and the first time in 13 years that the Bundesliga giants lost the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, and the first time in 13 years that Bayern lost the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals in 11 seasons (0:1 to Basel in 2011/12), and their last loss to an Italian team was back in the 2010/11 Champions League 1/ 8 Lost to Inter Milan in the second leg of the final (Bayern 2:3 Inter), 13 years have passed;
Bayern, who had the advantage of possession in this campaign, created 17 shots on goal but all missed without exception, while Lazio only had 11 shots on target but 4 hits, British star Harry Kane started the game and played the whole game, contributing a game-high 4 shots on goal, but unfortunately none of them were on target, in addition to 2 breakthroughs, 3 tackles and 1 clearance, 3 aerial duels and 2 successes, and 6 ground duels won 4 times of data contribution;
The defeat set a number of embarrassing records for Bayern:
1. After April 2015, Bayern was scored a penalty for the first time in the knockout round of the Champions League;
2. Bayern lost to an Italian team in the Champions League for the first time in 13 years, and the last time was to lose to Inter in 2011;
3. In the past 12 years, Bayern lost the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals for the first time;
4. Bayern had 17 shots on goal but none of them were on target, setting a record in the Champions League since the 03/04 season;
5. The last time Bayern had 0 shots on target in a single game in the Champions League was against Liverpool in 2019.
Since he became Bayern coach at the end of March last year, Tuchel led Bayern to the knockout rounds of the Champions League and the German Cup, only in the first round of this season's German Cup, won the German team Münster Prussia, and the other knockout rounds did not taste victory, including last season's German Cup was eliminated by Freiburg, the Champions League lost 0:3 to Manchester City, and the second round of this season's German Cup lost to the German team Saarbrücken, etc., Tuchel coached Bayern to 10 defeats:
Last season's German Cup quarter-finals: Bayern 1:2 Freiburg (eliminated from the German Cup);
The first leg of the quarter-knockout round of the Champions League last season: Bayern 0:3 Manchester City (eliminated from the Champions League);
Last season's Bundesliga 29th round: Bayern 1:3 Mainz Last season's Bundesliga 33rd round: Bayern 1:3 Leipzig;
German Super Cup: Bayern 0:3 Leipzig (German Super Cup runners-up);
Second round of this season's German Cup: Bayern 1:2 Saarbrücken (eliminated from the German Cup);
Bundesliga round 14 this season: Bayern 1:5 Eintracht Frankfurt;
Bundesliga round 18 this season: Bayern 0:1 Bremen;
Bundesliga 21st round this season: Bayern 0:3 Bayer Leverkusen;
First leg of this season's Champions League quarter-knockout round: Bayern 0:1 Lazio.
There is not much time left for Tuchel to redeem himself
Kane said in an interview after the defeat that it was painful to lose two crucial games in a row without scoring a goal, "It's been a very difficult week. We started well in the first half and created clear chances, including one for myself, and in those games it was a big moment. The second half was disappointing, we came out with less energy and confidence, we were punished and once you only have 10 men left, it becomes very difficult;"
'We're going through a tough period, we have to fight, we have to turn things around, we have important games and important goals to fight for, we haven't given up yet, we're never going to give up, we just need to turn things around, a game or a spark can change everything, these are the chances you want, but I tend to go backwards, that's football, it's part of being a striker, sometimes you miss, for me and the team the most important thing is to focus on the next challenge, we're going through difficult times, it's impossible to hide, we haven't given up yet, one flash can change a lot of things, we need to work on what to look for。 "
Bayern captain Manuel Neuer believes the next game against Bochum will try to regain confidence: "It's not an easy game at the moment, we know it's going to be difficult, but I still think we played well in the first half and we had chances to score. And we started the second half in that way, of course it was our mistake and we are responsible for it, we have to look at our losses, we can see the uncertainty and we are still trying to come together. We have to be as good as possible in the next game against Bochum, we need to have positive emotions, we need a win and then maybe things will get better, but of course it's hard for me to find the right words right now and we have a responsibility. The players are the ones who show up on the pitch and we're playing in the Champions League, it's the biggest stage you can play on, so we have to be 100 per cent motivated all the time. ”
Commenting on the team's performance after the game, the veteran Muller said, "From my point of view, our performance in the first half was a reaction to Bayer Leverkusen's defeat, we should have taken the lead in the first half, if we are talking about the reaction, we can't always discuss the result, of course, the result is the final presentation of the reaction, but first we have to talk about our approach;"
'In terms of goals conceded, we didn't make any mistakes, but we also missed good chances, we had three clear chances in the first half, in the Champions League away from home in Roma, there were so many chances at half-time, so you have to convert them into goals, and when you play 30 or 35 minutes with one man less, the 0-1 defeat away is not bad for me, and the second leg. ”
Bayern head coach Thomas Tuchel insisted after the game that he was not worried about being sacked, 'We were frustrated and angry at the defeat, I think we lost the game, I'm not sure it was Lazio who won, I'm not sure why we lost belief in the second half, but we did lose and then fell behind, I can't explain it because we told the team to keep their intensity and go forward more courageously, but it seemed like we lost confidence at the start of the second half;'
'There's something we can build on that, in the first half we created some good chances, some big chances and a huge chance created by Musiala, but in the end we didn't have a shot on target, so obviously you can't win a game like this, but we have the second leg and obviously combined with the result of the last game, the situation is not optimistic, but we will continue to work hard and I am not worried about my future or maybe being sacked. "
Lazio captain Immobile, who scored the only goal of the game, said after the game about his impressions of the game and his thoughts on qualifying: "If someone had told me the result a few months ago, would I have believed it? chances, the team will definitely give it their all, we want to give our fans a good night, I think we succeeded, before and after the goal we had other chances and we should use those opportunities to prepare for the second leg, but it's not bad now, playing games like this gives you a huge professional satisfaction, it's great to share these moments with the team, with the fans, and we have to bring that passion to the league and say hello to Klose? "
Guendouzi, who was officially named the best player in this game, said that he is looking forward to the second leg against Bayern, "We played a game of quality and energy, we achieved our goal, but we must also achieve our last goal, which is to advance to the next round, the trophy of the best player of the match? It's a trophy that I'm going to share with the whole team, we played very well, the second leg is going to be a difficult game in Munich and we have to play our football, but until then we have to focus on Bologna and then we will think about Bayern. ”
Lazio boss Maurizio Sarri commented after the game that his side should have scored more goals and that "it was a victory that was won through hard work and in painful moments. We are satisfied because we beat one of the strongest teams in Europe, but at the same time we are sorry because the score could have been bigger, I like the tightness of the team and the team spirit, we act like a brain and that's important. We knew there would be difficult moments, but there would also be opportunities, and we seized one of those;"
'It's a bit of a shame because in the last 15 minutes we wanted to keep the scoreline and not extend it, we decided to lower the pressing position, sometimes they pressed us even more than we expected, they were used to attacking on a massive scale and given the quality of the opposition we decided to lower the pressing position, Tuchel won a lot more than I have ever done, he knows what he has to do, they are a strong team, I was impressed with some of the players on the bench, they have an impressive squad of players, it was a satisfying victory, but we knew there would be difficulties ahead。 ”
Write at the end
"Since ancient times, the sages have been lonely, only the drinker has his name", last weekend's Bundesliga game, Bayern Munich lost 0:3 to Bayer Leverkusen, and the local media in Germany counted the average points per game of Bayern's last 8 coaches in all competitions (Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, etc.), of which Flick led the team with the highest average points per game, and Tuchel was the lowest:
Since the 2011-12 season, Bayern Munich has averaged points per game in all competitions: 1. Flick (86 games, 70 wins, 8 draws, 8 losses, 2.53 points per game);
2. Heynckes (2017-18, 41 games, 33 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses, 2.49 points per game);
3. Heynckes (2011-13, 109 games, 85 wins, 10 draws, 14 losses, 2.43 points per game);
4. Pep Guardiola (161 games, 124 wins, 16 draws, 21 losses, 2.41 points per game);
5. Nagelsmann (84 games, 60 wins, 14 draws, 10 losses, 2.31 points per game);
6.安切洛蒂（60场，43胜8平9负，场均积分2.28分）；
7. Kovac (65 games, 45 wins, 12 draws, 8 losses, 2.26 points per game);
8. Thomas Tuchel (42 games, 28 wins, 5 draws, 9 defeats, 2.12 points per game).