This Time, Dortmund were presented against a relegation candidate and the people of Munich had to be against a relegation candidate reloading. So Bayern did a half long, unusually hard, but then a 4:1 victory against VfB Stuttgart jumped out on a Sunday afternoon in a game that will not stay long in the memory.

Bundesliga round DISPLAY

children, children, how time flies – and in football, things sometimes change very quickly. As the VfB began last season on the last round in Munich, he did so with a broad chest after a superb second round and had then taken care of with the 4:1-success at the masters, the farewell to Jupp Heynckes for the noise the Party got.

And now, a little more than eight months later? Many of the illusions that this time it would be something with a very special Bang the resurgence of the people of Munich, was probably not a Schwabe – coach Markus Weinzierl. “A draw would be a victory,” he had said, five of the players exchanged compared with the previous week, for the first time, the 18-year-old Ozan Kabak, a total of eleven million euros more expensive winter access from Galatasaray Istanbul, in the interior defense ordered, and his team, a tactic prescribed, elected by the majority of Bayern’s opponents: “the Back of the compact, and then on the counter-attack lurking.”

Thiago and nothing else

you Can do so, but, above all, much better than the VfB of the initial phase. After a little more than four minutes of compactness was to see, and even Coman is likely to have been surprised at how freely he was allowed to in front of the VfB goalkeeper Rob-Robert Zieler by the Stuttgart penalty area for a walk. A few moments later, Thiago pushed thought the Ball back at all geeilten against players over to the Bayern lead to the goal. This could be the prelude to a very uncomfortable afternoon for the Swabians, when Kimmich border, a little later, his shot from the edge of the box, not just the gate would have failed.

but the fast 1:0 made first of all to the contrary: The simple guide moved the Bavarians, clearly, easily into the night mode and to save forces – just as the clashes in the Champions League ahead of FC Liverpool directly. Until the 19th century. February and the first leg in England, however, remains a little time.

The Bayern of the first half were reminiscent of those of the Munich team, in the fall of important points home playful against Freiburg or Düsseldorf and you had to go even happiness, at least with a draw at the break. First of all, Donis (26. Minute) enough time to lay out undisturbed the Ball right before he shot him from 20 meters untenable for Manuel Neuer under the bar. But the national goalkeeper, after 33 minutes, is crucial in the way, as once again, Donis came to five meters to the shot and Later met.