Fans and experts shake their heads: Both FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are currently on a roll. There are clear Parallels in the crises of the two flagship clubs.
Thomas Müller (l.) and Sergio Ramos (R) during the Champions League semi-final second leg in Madrid in may
As they had agreed. After a good start to the season has been going on since 22. September, both in German, as well as the Spanish record champion hardly anything. On that Saturday, FC Bayern (2:0 Schalke 04) and Real Madrid (1:0 against Espanyol Barcelona) celebrated their recent victories. Since then, it has continued for the “Royal” Madrid three defeats (0:3 FC Sevilla 0:1 in the Champions League with CSKA Moscow, 0:1 in the case of CD Alaves) and a draw (0:0 against Atletico), for the Bavaria, two draws (1:1 against FC Augsburg and in the Royal class against Ajax Amsterdam) and two lost games (0:2 Hertha BSC and 0:3 against Borussia Mönchengladbach).
This club was achieved for both Most last Saturday was an absolute low point: The Bayern conceded after a dismal performance in their highest home defeat against Gladbach. Real embarrassed when Basque football dwarf Alaves and cashed for the first time since 1931, and again a defeat. In addition, the Merengues remained for the fourth Time in the series, not only victory, but also goalless. The last 33 years ago.
How long Lopetegui and Kovac are still holding?
Real Coach Julen Lopetegui
At the time, Real had to take a coach Amancio Amaro his hat. Also there is now a debate in Spain violently about whether Julen Lopetegui has to go or not. The 52-year-old Basque is only since the summer in Madrid as a successor to the retired French success coach Zinedine Zidane in the office. His secret contract negotiations with Real had cost Lopetegui directly in front of the world Cup in Russia, his Job as the Spanish national coach. A change of coach would be “crazy,” said Real captain Sergio Ramos after the Bankruptcy in Alaves, “but there are other people who make these decisions.”
Bayern Coach Niko Kovac
Ramos’s words could also apply for Niko Kovac. As Lopetegui, the Berlin-born Croat, which is in a week, 47-year-old sits, it is only since the start of the season on the bench. And also him, the Wind blows after the series of four Games without a win in the face. “I know the mechanisms in football, I know that the time at FC Bayern runs differently than elsewhere,” said Kovac after the home defeat from Saturday. Even if club President Uli Hoeness claims “to have not one second of it” meant to send Kovac after only three months at Bayern in the desert, requires the Trainer to stay in the picture – urgently an oasis.
Shoddy Defensive, Storm Lull
The table is not primarily a situation – Bayern has missing tables-Sixth, four points behind Borussia Dortmund, Real as the Fourth only two points on leaders FC Sevilla , but the game of the two flagship clubs, which creates shaking at Fans and experts for head. Here, too, the current Situation is similar. Both the Munich, the Merengues have, as in the last years, a lot of possession, but the Defensive works sloppy, and in the storm series is a slow period.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the face of the Real successes of the last years
Without his to Juventus migrated previous Torgaranten, the Portuguese Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, Real’s the front a little – even if captain Ramos proclaimed defiantly: “With him we also had Torkrisen.” Bayern, with Robert Lewandowski, although his “clippers”, but that he came in the game against Mönchengladbach on just 16 touches of the Ball and two shots on goal, speaks volumes. The Polish striker is rarely served, whether of the form of the weak “Oldies” Arjen Robben (34 years old) and Franck Ribery (35), Thomas Müller or new arrival Leon Goretzka.
Many of the injured, hardly any reinforcements
Real and Bayern is the fact that the list of the injured and the sick, long unites. So key players Isco missing in Madrid after a blind intestinal Operation, probably by the end of October. In Alaves had to be replaced with Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale, two other offensive stars due to injury. The Bayern defender Jerome Boateng was missing against Gladbach in addition to the long-term injured Corentin Tolisso and Kingston Coman due to a cold with a fever, David Alaba had to because of a muscle injury.
For David Alaba (R.) was the end of the game against Mönchengladbach after 55 minutes
Maybe revenge, it is currently the Munich stopped in front of this season in the transfer market, but former players such as Arturo Vidal (FC Barcelona) and Juan Bernat (Paris St. Germain) sold. Here, too, there are Parallels to Real: While goal machine disappeared Ronaldo in the direction of Turin, hired a new Superstar in the “Royal”. In a survey of the sports newspaper “Marca” was rated by 87 per cent of respondents in the squad worse than in the past few years, as a Real, three times in series, the Champions League had won.