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Needing to triumph to unafraid the Bundesliga title, Bayern Munich traveled to look RB Leipzig astatine the Red Bull Arena connected Saturday. They were, however, successful for a first-half astonishment arsenic the hosts enactment successful a large performance, heading to the interruption with a two-goal vantage done Benjamin Sesko (11′) and Lukas Klostermann (39′). The champions-elect responded furiously successful the 2nd half, with goals from Eric Dier (62′), Michael Olise (63′) and Leroy Sane (83′) turning the crippled around. But different daze came precise late, arsenic Yussuf Poulsen came disconnected the seat to equalize successful the precise past seconds of the four-minute stoppage time.
Teams
Both sides had sizeable squad issues to enactment around.
For Leipzig, caput manager Zsolt Low couldn’t telephone upon goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi, defenders Willi Orban and Benjamin Henrichs, arsenic good arsenic midfielder Xavier Schlager, with assorted wounded problems, portion defender El Chadaille Bitshiabu served a red-card suspension.
Maarten Vandevoordt replaced Gulacsi successful goal. Kosta Nedeljkovic and David Raum flanked centre-backs Klostermann and Castello Lukeba successful defence. Kevin Kampl and Amadou Haidara paired up successful the mediate of the park, with Xavi Simons and Nicolas Seiwald successful much precocious positions. Sesko and Lois Openda formed the attacking duo.
Meanwhile, Bayern brag Vincent Kompany was successful an adjacent worse situation. No little than 7 players – defenders Dayot Upamecano, Kim Min-jae, Alphonso Davies and Hiroki Ito, and midfielders Jamal Musiala, Raphael Guerreiro and Tarek Buchmann – were retired injured, goalkeeper Sven Ulreich missed retired done idiosyncratic reasons, and prima striker Harry Kane served a yellow-card suspension.
Veteran goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was near connected the bench, and with Ulreich unavailable, Jonas Urbig stood betwixt the posts. The antiaircraft situation forced Kompany to displacement fullback Josip Stanisic into the bosom of defence, wherever helium joined Dier, with Konrad Laimer connected the near and Sacha Boey connected the right. Joshua Kimmich and Aleksandar Pavlovic covered the cardinal areas of the pitch, with Sane and Olise attacking from the flanks. Thomas Muller and Serge Gnabry were the players positioned closest to the absorption goal.
Brief recap
Leipzig entered the contention bravely, and they had already wasted 2 bully opportunities earlier Sesko produced a top-class curler to bushed Urbig and interruption the deadlock.
Bayern looked utterly powerless to bash thing upfront. Muller’s efforts, portion admirable, were ineffective – the seasoned had precise small enactment for what helium was trying to bash connected aggregate occasions, with Gnabry, Sane, and peculiarly Olise, failing to drawback immoderate occurrence from his sparks. The deficiency of Kane and Musiala was precise telling.
And things soon got worse for the would-be champions. As the archetypal fractional approached its last minutes, a well-taken free-kick from Raum recovered the caput of Klostermann and Leipzig’s pb was doubled.
A alert connected the partition of the visitors’ dressing country would astir apt person a batch to study astir what Kompany told his players during the break, but immoderate it was, it evidently worked.
The Bavarians afloat re-entered the fray aft the restart, and hardly a infinitesimal passed betwixt Dier expertly diverting Olise’s country to bushed Vandevoordt astatine the adjacent station and Olise finishing a swift counterattack himself, aft Pavlovic took vantage of a escaped Raum walk to triumph possession for his squad successful the absorption half.
Bayern were present wholly connected the beforehand foot, with beardown momentum connected their side, and it was lone a substance of clip earlier they would onslaught again. Laimer missed a glorious chance, sending a header implicit the barroom from a gait oregon two, but Sane kept his chill successful the 83rd minute, and the rubric appeared truthful adjacent astatine that infinitesimal that Kane near the stands to ticker the remainder of the lucifer from the touchline.
But the England skipper and his nine teammates were successful for yet different shock. Their momentum waned; it seemed they were already celebrating successful their heads erstwhile they were harshly reminded of the ruthlessness of the athletics astatine this level. A abrupt deficiency of antiaircraft organization, successful virtually the last seconds of the match, allowed Poulsen to find himself one-on-one with Urbig. The distant fans stopped abbreviated successful their celebrations arsenic the Leipzig substitute striker produced a interaction of people by chipping the Bayern goalkeeper to enactment the shot successful the net.
The last-second setback means small for Bayern rubric pursuit
Bayern were frankincense prevented from clinching the rubric mathematically connected the day, but it won’t truly halt them from winning it successful the end. They present clasp a nine-point vantage implicit second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, and though the defending champions volition person a accidental to chopped it down to six connected Sunday against Freiburg (not precisely a foregone conclusion), conscionable 2 games volition stay for each team. With Bayern boasting a goal-difference than their rivals by 30 astatine the moment, it would instrumentality a succession of immense miracles for them not beryllium regain the Bundesliga throne successful the end.
Bayern volition surely beryllium crowned champions again, whether connected Sunday oregon adjacent week, remains to beryllium seen.
On the different hand, Poulsen’s equalizer whitethorn yet beryllium important for Leipzig, who firmly stay connected the hunt for Champions League qualification. After Saturday’s matches, they beryllium successful sixth spot with 50 points, 4 little than Eintracht Frankfurt successful third, 1 little than Borussia Dortmund successful 4th and Freiburg successful fifth, and 3 much than Mainz 05 successful seventh and Werder Bremen successful eighth. It should, however, beryllium said that on with Freiburg doing conflict with Leverkusen, Mainz big Eintracht connected Sunday.
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