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Bayern wins against Wolfsburg – but the club doesn’t say goodbye to Tuchel
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Four days after the Champions League exit in Madrid, Thomas Tuchel sat on the Bayern bench for the last time in the Munich Arena. With the effortless win against VfL Wolfsburg, FC Bayern once again overtakes VfB Stuttgart and takes second place. But the coach is left empty-handed for the time being.
Goals instead of flowers: Thomas Tuchel was able to celebrate the hoped-for victory at his farewell game as Bayern coach in the Allianz Arena. However, the easy and relaxed 2-0 (2-0) in the Bundesliga against a harmless VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday was only of limited use in dispelling Tuchel and the Munich stars’ Champions League frustration from Madrid.
The 19-year-old starting eleven debutant Lovro Zvonarek (4th minute) and national player Leon Goretzka (13th) scored the goals for the badly depleted Bayern team around captain Manuel Neuer. With this success, the record champions pushed VfB Stuttgart back from second place in the table.
Neuer, the unlucky man who missed the new Wembley final against Borussia Dortmund, spent a largely unoccupied 500th Bundesliga game four days after his momentous mistake in the 2-1 win against Real Madrid. After 73 minutes, the 38-year-old national goalkeeper called it a day – Bundesliga debutant Daniel Peretz replaced him in goal.
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Surprisingly, there was no official farewell to Tuchel before kick-off in the sold-out arena. Reason: It’s still about the runner-up. The Servus to Tuchel should be made up “duly” after the last game of the season at TSG Hoffenheim, as the stadium announcer specifically announced. The 50-year-old Tuchel will be fine. The day before, he had said at a farewell ceremony: “You don’t need to hand over flowers to terminate your contract early without a title.”
Tuchel took over the Munich team in March 2023 as the successor to Julian Nagelsmann and won the German championship as his only title in the summer of last year. This season, Tuchel came away empty-handed with FC Bayern. The contract, which was originally dated until 2025, was terminated early in February at the end of this season. It remains unclear who will be Tuchel’s successor. Recently there was renewed speculation about ex-coach Hansi Flick as a possible successor.
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As expected, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Bouna Sarr are leaving the German record champions after almost four years. The 35-year-old striker Choupo-Moting was unable to come to the stadium because he was ill. He scored 38 goals in 122 games for Munich. There were flowers before kick-off for the 32-year-old Sarr, who played in 33 competitive games for Munich in his almost four years. The Senegalese moved from Olympique Marseille to FC Bayern for around eight million euros. Marketing director Andreas Jung, who is leaving FC Bayern this summer, also said goodbye before kick-off. He worked for the Munich company for 28 years.
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Tuchel, on the other hand, preferred to do his job on the sidelines in a tracksuit – and his players on the pitch. But who was kicking? No Kane, no Musiala, no Sané and no Gnabry, all of whom were missing due to injury or injury. Dier, de Ligt and Laimer also sat fully or partially on the substitutes’ bench. Tuchel moved to Madrid eight times.
Wolfsburg has been waiting for a win in Munich for 27 games
The eternal Thomas Müller led a very young offensive with Mathys Tel, winter signing Bryan Zaragoza and talent Zvonarek from Bavaria’s regional league team. And the young Croatian was immediately cheered by the 75,000 spectators. Müller cleverly passed a pass from Alphonso Davies to Zvonarek. The 19-year-old hit a deliberate and placed shot from 15 meters, the ball bounced off the inside post and into the net.
Against a weak Wolfsburg team, which is still waiting for a win in Munich even after its 27th guest appearance, Bayern continued to have an easy game: Zaragoza’s cross, Zvonarek’s header to Müller, lay-off to Goretzka – goal. Everything like in training. Zaragoza’s third goal was conceded by the video assistant (18′). After that, the one-sided game sputtered along.
And that even after the break. Bayern no longer had to, Wolfsburg couldn’t and didn’t want to. The Lower Saxony team performed as if they were already on their summer break. And Tuchel? A few more days of training and one last game as FC Bayern coach await him. But he would have wanted this in London – and not in Sinsheim.