Bayern Munich are riding an incredible high into the conclusion of their season and the squad is clicking as best as it has at just the right time. After the March international break, Vincent Kompany’s side had a last minute winner from Lennart Karl at SC Freiburg to secure a come-from-behind win ahead of their Champions League quarterfinals first leg win at Real Madrid. The solid 2-1 performance at the Bernabéu was followed by an emphatic 5-0 win at St. Pauli that saw the German Rekordmeister score
goals number 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105 of the season, breaking a record that had stood since the 1971/72 season, led by the late Gerd Müller.
Bayern are essentially two wins away from clinching another Meisterschale and also have the DFB-Pokal semifinal at Bayer Leverkusen later this month after the small matter of the Champions League quarterfinals second leg vs. Real Madrid. There have been comparisons circulating on social media to Hansi Flick’s Sextuple team from the 2019/20 season with the way this current Bayern team has been performing, but none of that matters for the time being until silverware is secured.
In a recent interview with Kicker (via @iMiaSanMia), former Bayern club president Uli Hoeneß spoke about the trophies Bayern is trying to win this season as crunch time is well and truly upon us. With Borussia Dortmund’s weekend loss to Bayer Leverkusen, it’s really now just a pair of wins that would do the job for Bayern in the Bundesliga, which Hoeneß is more than well aware of. “Now we have the league title in the bag, the most important title of the season is ours for the taking,” he described of Bayern claiming another league title.
As far as the DFB-Pokal is concerned, it’s been far too long since Bayern has made it to the final in Berlin. They haven’t been to the Olympiastadion for the final since the summer of 2020, when they beat Leverkusen 4-0 in the final shortly before winning the Champions League is Lisbon, Portugal. “That’s an important goal, especially for our fans,” Hoeneß bluntly said. Recent season’s blunders against the likes of Leverkusen (Manuel Neuer red card and loss), FC Saarbrücken, SC Freiburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Holstein Kiel have left Bayern frustrated at having not progressed to the final for nearly six years, which needs to change this season.
As for the Champions League, despite how well Bayern played in the first leg against Real Madrid, there’s every reason not to be overzealous or overconfident. The LaLiga giants have a famous history of remarkable comebacks in Europe’s biggest club competition and have overcome far more difficult odds than just a one-goal deficit. Nonetheless, it’s always a goal of Bayern’s to reach Champions League finals, where they haven’t been since winning it vs. Paris Saint-Germain in 2020. In the semifinals, it’s either Liverpool or the Ligue 1 Champions standing in Bayern’s way of a trip to Budapest, Hungary at the Puskas Arena for the final.
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