Last Updated: December 12, 2023, 12:54 IST
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (proper) (credit score: AP picture)
After a stunning 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayern Munich look to take out their frustration in the Champions League towards Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Six years and 39 video games. That’s how lengthy it’s been since Bayern Munich misplaced a Champions League group stage sport.
That makes Tuesday’s sport towards Bayern an particularly daunting job for Manchester United. After its personal loss to Bournemouth, United must beat Bayern to have any likelihood of avoiding an embarrassingly early exit from the Champions League.
Bayern — which is already certified for the knockout levels — gained’t simply be taking part in so as to add a fortieth sport to that unbeaten document. After a shock 5-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, ahead Thomas Müller referred to as on his teammates to indicate their emotion at Old Trafford.
“There has to be a reaction following this. We need to tap into our anger, but we can’t lose our heads,” he mentioned.
The Frankfurt sport was a lot nearer than the rating suggests — Bayern truly had 4 extra pictures than its opponent — however Bayern is eager to bounce again.
Midfielder Leon Goretzka instructed Bayern hadn’t been helped by having 10 days with out a sport after its final Bundesliga match was referred to as off due to heavy snow. He informed broadcaster ZDF that Bayern had been coaching nicely, although “we couldn’t have sensed in training that we’d fallen into a hole, but after kickoff today it looked very much like that.”
Against United, Bayern wants to indicate the Frankfurt loss was only a “slip-up,” Goretzka mentioned.
It was Bayern’s third lack of the season however the first with England captain Harry Kane in the beginning lineup.
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Kane had tasted defeat on his debut for Bayern towards Leipzig in the German Super Cup in August, however on that event Bayern was already 2-0 down earlier than Kane got here on for a half-hour cameo — and he had the excuse of getting been up late the night time earlier than for a medical and contract signing. Kane was an unused substitute in Bayern’s solely different lack of the season, an upset away defeat to 3rd-division Saarbruecken in the German Cup.
Kane has 22 targets in 19 video games for Bayern, numbers that resemble his Munich predecessor Robert Lewandowski. The former Tottenham striker has a profession seven targets in 20 video games towards United and scored in the entertaining 4-3 win in Munich in September.
The 5-1 loss to Frankfurt was Bayern’s worst loss in the Bundesliga since a defeat by the identical rating, to the identical opponent, again in 2019. On that event it value coach Niko Kovac his job. Thomas Tuchel is relatively safer in his job however historical past exhibits it doesn’t take a lot to unsettle Bayern coaches. A draw or loss at United could be Bayern’s third sport in a row with out a win.
Bayern heads to Manchester with out ahead Serge Gnabry after he lasted simply 5 minutes off the bench towards Frankfurt earlier than he needed to go off with a groin pressure. He joins defenders Matthijs de Ligt and Bouna Sarr, each out with knee ligament accidents, and backup goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, who didn’t journey with an ankle downside.
Bayern issued an enchantment to its followers Monday asking them to not use flares. The membership was fined 40,000 euros ($43,000) after followers used pyrotechnics and threw objects in October’s 2-1 win over Copenhagen and a repeat dangers away followers being barred from the membership’s subsequent European away sport, Bayern warned.
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