“Did he take sleeping pills?”

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The great Oliver Kahn (53) once said it simply about sustained and unsustainable shots: “When it’s my turn, I’ve got to have it.” The man from Karlsruhe was in Bayern’s goal for 14 years and literally ate balls and opponents with his ambition. Now he sits on top of the stands of the Allianz Arena in Munich as CEO.

On Saturday afternoon he is even standing just before the final whistle, his right hand on the back of his chair in the Bayern VIP stand, his left arm on his hip. Before that, he saw how one of his successors had to take a beating. It’s the 71st minute in the game against Hoffenheim when it’s Yann Sommer’s turn – but he doesn’t have it. After a free kick from Sinsheimer Andrej Kramaric, the national goalkeeper flies into the far corner, has his hand on the ball and directs it towards the post. From there the ball bounces into the goal, compensation, Hoffenheim is well served and can dream of a point in Munich.

Maier and Pfaff beat up Sommer

It’s the next summer scene that will be the talk of the town. Even before the goal, the Swiss national goalkeeper has one or two uncertainties. Are you busy with the discussions of the past few days?

Even before the game against Hoffenheim, Bayern goalkeeper legends Jean-Marie Pfaff (69) and Sepp Maier (79) beat him. “Summer is rightly criticized. I didn’t recognize him against Manchester City,” said the Belgian Pfaff at “TZ” and “Münchner Merkur”. “He played bad passes, always sideways instead of forward. I don’t understand why he tried to build the game, it was too risky.”

Pfaff aims below the belt

In his criticism, Pfaff sounds a bit like Sky expert Dietmar Hamann, who shot in the direction of Sommer in the week after the game against Manchester City. The Belgian warns that Sommer does not appeal to people enough for him. “They need to know where to stand. Summer didn’t. He just stood still and waited,” he said. And follows pretty badly: “I don’t know, did he take sleeping pills?”

Meanwhile, it sounds cynical at Maier, who once worked as a goalkeeper coach in Munich. “Please leave poor Yann Sommer alone,” said the four-time German champion. “It’s not his fault that the goalkeeper experts brought him to Bayern.” Sommer is a good but not excellent keeper.

One shot, one goal

The summer discussions between the connoisseurs and those who think they are will hardly erupt in football Germany. National coach Murat Yakin (48) has already put himself behind his number 1 in that regard. “Hard analyzes are part of the business and certainly FC Bayern,” he said ahead of time. “But Hamann’s sharp criticism is incomprehensible to me. In this form, she is disrespectful to Yann. »

Sommer will not get any more chances to rehabilitate against Hoffenheim. Kramaric’s free kick remains the only Hoffenheim finish on the Bayern goal well into the final phase. In the end it became 1-1 and again Bayern could not win under new coach Thomas Tuchel. The only good news: because Dortmund allowed the equalizer in Stuttgart at the last minute, the leaders of the Bundesliga remain in Munich.

Source : Blick