Record Champions FC Bayern wants to shoot himself in the Champions League match against AEK Athens out of the crisis. Coach Niko Kovac, the way smiles at questions about his future. 1899 Hoffenheim have to win.
“We no longer have the ease and self-understanding as at the beginning of the season,” admits defender Joshua Kimmich before the Champions League game of FC Bayern on Wednesday against AEK Athens (21 hrs CET, starting at 20.45 at the DW live Ticker for this). “We need to develop happiness. It does not come by itself.”
Kimmich are also not afraid to talk of a “crisis” of Bavaria. Not from a personal time of suffering. The lean 1:1 last weekend against SC Freiburg, the 23-Year-old, “was my worst game that I have shown in three years at FC Bayern”. Against Athens, the team will now get back their self-confidence, says Kimmich. “And then Dortmund.”
One after the other, also calls for coach Niko Kovac. The game against the outsiders from Greece was important. “In victory, we would have been ten points. Depending on how the other game turns out, we might be then.” Bayern and Ajax Amsterdam are in the table of group E with seven points and a 5:1-gates neck and neck at the front. The Dutch play on Wednesday in Benfica, Lisbon.
Kovac: “the atmosphere in the team is good”
Bayern Coach Niko Kovac
The question of whether his clock would be expired at Bayern after the last disappointing performances soon, way smiles, the Bayern coach. Contrary to the prevailing impression from the outside, Kovac, was the atmosphere in the team. “The fun and the joy are there. We need a game we have to win with three, four goals difference. Then, the node opens. Currently, we are in a Phase in which we need to work hard.”
Because an opponent like AEK comes to Athens with a score of zero table tail light may be just right. “As the result will be, you can’t predict,” says Thomas Müller. “But we want passion to occur, this momentum to Dortmund to take.” In the case of a defeat in the Bundesliga top match on Saturday (18.30 PM, from 18.15 clock in the DW live Ticker for this), Bayern are already seven points behind BVB, who missed his rehearsal with Atletico Madrid.
Hoffenheim to win damn it
While the Bavarians are against Athens, rather, under that pressure, finally have a compelling power to deliver, must deliver to 1899 Hoffenheim, a result. The players of coach Julian nail man are fucking at Olympique Lyon to win, you don’t want to write off the eighth-finals.
“We are aware that we have to win,” said the nail man. “So we go in the game.” After three Bundesliga away wins in a row, there is no shortage of self-confidence. So far, the hope Heimer in group F after three Games is still winless and are in the table with two points behind Manchester City (6) and Lyon (5) on rank three.