If a director had wanted to film the history of FC Bayern in recent years, it would have become a nice comedy, with almost everything that goes with it. With a bit of drama, of course, a few confusions and unexpected twists like the dismissal of coach Julian Nagelsmann a year ago, but always with a happy ending, i.e. at least one title.
But now the Munich-based company is providing the template for a completely different genre. In any case, Leon Goretzka feels “like he’s in a horror film that doesn’t stop.” Or in which the story always starts again from the beginning. But it’s nothing fun like in the Hollywood classic about the marmot who says hello forever, but rather a nightmare. Bayern are the main actors in a thriller in a constant loop because although not one game is the same, they all end in defeat – and in the end probably in the first titleless season in twelve years.
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Tuchel will probably remain coach for the time being
After the 2:3 on Sunday at VfL Bochum, the third lost game in eight days, and now eight points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen, the Munich team is now heading for the climax of the action, which is called “The abyss of horror “ even has the right name. In the almost 20-year-old horror thriller from Great Britain, a group is stuck in a cave. “Everything feels incredibly strange at the moment,” said Leon Goretzka, the only Bayern player who wanted to talk on Sunday.
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FC Bayern have now suffered consecutive defeats
FC Bayern is also trapped, stuck. The team because they lost control in Leverkusen, at Lazio and now also in Bochum. After all, not only two goals were scored on Sunday after two goalless games, and Manuel Riemann in the VfL goal, unlike his colleagues from Leverkusen and Rome, also had to thwart a few good chances, but after Jamal Musiala’s lead and the interruption that has now become normal in the Bundesliga Bayern lost their rhythm because of tennis balls flying onto the field. They only found him again after Dayot Upamecano was sent off and Bochum took a 3-1 lead. But there was nothing more than Harry Kane’s goal.
It seems that coach Thomas Tuchel can no longer be Thomas Tuchel in Munich, because at the moment it is less about the right tactics, perfect positional play or system variants, but more about speaking strongly to the players, i.e. about psychology and empathy. And those responsible are faced with difficult decisions for which there are no good solutions.
Everything feels incredibly strange at the moment.
Leon Goretzkaafter the defeat in Bochum
Club board member Jan-Christian Dreesen tried on Sunday not to further fuel the long-standing public debate about Thomas Tuchel by refraining from making these “monstrous statements of support for the coach”. Because “these oaths of loyalty are already over after a week,” said Dreesen, but assured that a change of coach is “currently not an issue that we are dealing with.” And “of course” Thomas Tuchel will be on the bench in the next game on Saturday against RB Leipzig.
Various scenarios are likely to be discussed behind closed doors. Option one is that Bayern will continue with Tuchel until the end of the season because the chance of winning the championship is no longer realistic, even if they have a winning streak – just as success in the Champions League is no longer realistic, even when viewed through rose-colored fan glasses. In addition, the responsibility for the crisis does not only lie with Tuchel, but also with the players. The change of coach almost a year ago had already shown that nothing had gotten better, on the contrary.
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But it could also be that the Bayern bosses are already looking for an interim solution, a coach who can limit the damage, i.e. at least reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League and secure second place in the Bundesliga. Or those responsible immediately bring in a longer-term solution, a trainer for the new construction, the total renovation. However, this option is the least likely because there are hardly any suitable candidates on the market in the middle of the season. Only one thing can be certain: Thomas Tuchel’s days in Munich are numbered. By May at the latest, when the season is over.