Thomas Tuchel started his career at the head of the technical management of Bayern Munich, the defending champions, in an ideal way and led him to regain the lead and the tone of victories by defeating his former team and traditional rivals Borussia Dortmund 4-2 on Saturday at the “Allianz Arena” in Munich in the twenty-sixth stage of the championship . Germany Football.
The Bayern quartet, seeking its 11th title in a row, scored Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Koppel (13 fouls in his team's goal) and captain Thomas Muller (18 and 23), raising his yield to six goals this season, and Frenchman Kingsley Coman (51), while Emre Djan scored (72). From the penalty spot) and Dutchman Doniel Mallen (90).
The Bavarian club inflicted the first loss on Borussia Dortmund this year (9 wins and one draw) and the seventh in the league this season, specifically since its fall to its host Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-4 on November 11, so it regained the lead that it gave up in the last stage when it lost to its host. Bayer Leverkusen 1-2 before the international break on March 19.
The loss was one of the reasons that prompted the Bavarian club to dismiss its coach, Julian Nagelsmann, and to contract with the former coach of French Paris Saint-Germain and English Chelsea on the current 24.
Tuchel praised his team's desire to fight for the ball, but said, "We need the desire to improve, because we have to improve," adding, "The result was definitely what we wanted."
The Bavarian club repeated its honor and benefit of its guest, Dortmund, when it was a guest for the last time while it was in the lead in the 2018-2019 season. At that time, Dortmund was taught a lesson in the arts of the game and lost by five clean.
Bayern also consolidated its supremacy over Dortmund in Munich, with a ninth successive victory.
Bayern Munich raised its score to 55 points, compared to 53 for Dortmund.
The Bavarian victory came at the right time, as it awaits a double confrontation with Freiburg on Tuesday in the quarter-finals of the cup competition, and next Saturday in the twenty-eighth stage, before traveling to England to face Manchester City in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
On the other hand, Dortmund's fall came before its expected summit against its host Leipzig on Wednesday in the quarter-finals of the local cup competition.
Tuchel kept Jamal Musiala and Senegalese star Sadio Mane, who Bild newspaper reported was one of the reasons for Nagelsmann's dismissal, and Portuguese Joao Cancelo on the bench.
Cameroonian international striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting returned to the squad after missing the last two matches due to injury.
Dortmund started the match with possession and pressure on the Bavarian club's defense, but the turning point was a fatal mistake by the Swiss international guest goalkeeper Gregor Koppel when he came out of the penalty area to deflect a pass from defender Upamecano from behind the middle of the field to Leroy Sanneh, but he touched it without success in dispersing it and continued its way towards the goal. Empty (13).
Koppel blamed himself and told the German "Sky" channel, "Sometimes there are disappointing days, and today was one of them."
But his coach, Edin Terzic, paid tribute to him, saying, "We cannot forget that this man is the reason we were at the top of the table."
Captain Marco Reus said simply: "No matter what I say, it won't change anything. We lost. It wasn't a good evening for us."
The guests' players were confused and Leon Goritska almost scored the second goal with a header from close range in the hands of goalkeeper Kopel (17).
Mueller succeeded in adding the second goal when he was hit by a header by Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt, following a corner kick by Joshua Kimmich, and it continued on its way to the right of goalkeeper Koble (18).
Mueller strengthened the homeowners' lead with his second and third personal goal for his team, taking advantage of a rebound from goalkeeper Koppel after a strong pass from outside the area to his tongue, so he followed it from close range into the goal (23).
Ivory Coast's Sebastien Haller missed the opportunity to reduce the gap when he received a ball on a platter of gold from Marius Wolf inside the area, carelessly kicking it away from the three woods (50).
Haller paid dearly for his missed opportunity, because Koeman added the fourth when he took advantage of a cross pass creeping from his tongue, so he followed it up with his left to the right of the goalkeeper (51).
Dutch substitute Doniel Mallen tried his luck with a powerful shot from outside the area, which was blocked by Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer in two waves (67).
Bellingham got a penalty kick after he was blocked inside the area by substitute Serge Gnabry, and Emre Djan brought it to her successfully, narrowing the difference (72).
And Maln managed to score the second goal for the guests with a right-handed shot from inside the area (90).
Onion Berlin continued its revival and Leipzig bleeding points, with the first big victory over its guest Stuttgart 3-0, and the second losing against its guest Mainz with the same result.
In the first match, the capital's second pole honored its guest, Stuttgart, with a clean triple, which was scored by Surinamese Sheraldo Becker (51), Kevin Behrens (67), and Japanese Genki Haraguchi (68 fouls in his team's goal).
It is the second victory in a row for Union Berlin and the fifteenth this season, so it strengthened its position in third place with 51 points.
In the second, Mainz surprised its host Leipzig with an early goal, specifically in the ninth minute, scored by Dane Marcus Ingvartsen, before French Ludovic Ajork added the second 12 minutes after the start of the second half (57), then midfielder Dominic Kohr sealed the festival with the third goal (68).
It is the third loss for Leipzig in its last four matches, so its score froze at 45 points in fifth place, while Mainz continued its uprising this year, achieving its fifth victory in seven matches in which it did not taste the taste of loss.
Mainz rose to eighth place with 40 points, on goal difference, behind Bayer Leverkusen, who continued its revival and achieved its fourth successive victory when it defeated its host Schalke 04 by 3-0, which was alternately scored by Dutchman Jeremy Frimpong (50), Florian Wertz (61) and Iranian Sardar Azmoun (90 + 2).
Bayer Leverkusen rose to seventh place with 40 points, taking advantage of Wolfsburg's stumbling in front of its guest Augsburg, with two goals by Luca Waldschmidt (85) and Felix Nmeja (90 + 6) compared to two goals by Maximilian Arnold (2 fouls in his own goal) and Marjem Berisha (32).
Arnold was unlucky in the match, missing a penalty kick in the 21st minute.
Wolfsburg fell to ninth place with 39 points.
Freiburg, who finished fourth and last, qualifies for the Champions League next season, wasted the opportunity to widen the difference between it and Leipzig to four points by falling into a 1-1 draw trap at home to Hertha Berlin.
Freiburg was the first to score through Italian midfielder Vincenzo Grifo (52), raising his score to 13 goals, second on the scorers list, but Hertha Berlin equalized through striker Yesic Ngankam (77).
The stage ends on Sunday with Cologne's meeting with Borussia Monchengladbach, and Werder Bremen with Hoffenheim.