Swiss goalkeepers in the middle of Bundesliga drama: Kobel comforts his girlfriend – Sommer has to let Neuer through

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The phrase comes from Marcel Reif, from the 2001 season finale, when Bayern snatched the championship trophy from FC Schalke in the 94th minute of the final round, crying: “Well, that’s how they are,” said the famous commentator succinctly. To this day there is little to add: Well, they are!

Bayern stumbled and stumbled through the second half of the season. They fired coach Julian Nagelsmann at the wrong time. They have not responded adequately to Robert Lewandowski’s departure. They had a fight because Manuel Neuer was injured on a ski tour. They failed to rhetorically support his deputy Yann Sommer, even if the criticism of the Swiss national team goalkeeper was mostly twofold: irrelevant and unfair. Well, and they messed up at home against Leipzig recently.

And now? Doesn’t matter in the Bundesliga. Are they champions again for the eleventh time in a row and steal the scale of a Ruhr area club again in the final phase of the last round.

Jamal Musiala (20) proves his exceptional class and shoots Bayern in Cologne with a treacherous shot into the bottom corner to make it 2-1. 89 minutes have been played. A draw would have made Dortmund champions. Pure horror reigns in Dortmund. Edin Terzic, the Dortmund coach, who was already an assistant under Lucien Favre, is trying to give his team a boost again. But his facial expressions also betray: the air is out, the faith is gone. The late equalizer does not change Dortmund’s fate: the title is lost.

strong summer

At the same time, Bayern has long been more than content with a championship title – winning the league seemed to have become a boring routine. Also cheers Yann Sommer, the Yann Sommer who had to endure absurd arguments about his skills and his height. He already made excellent saves against Leipzig and in Cologne he bounced a header from Cologne’s Kainz over the crossbar halfway through the second half.

An achievement that would no longer benefit him. Because he knows his status at the latest since the presentation of the trophy. Because the Munich championship trophy is lifted by none other than Manuel Neuer. He, who was not on the field for a minute in the second half of the season. In recent weeks, his own website has praised his return to training. There is no clearer way for Sommer to understand that his time at Bayern is coming to an end. After all: he is only the seventh Swiss who can call himself German champion.

Hasan Salihamidzic, Bayern’s sports director, is also on the pitch – unlike CEO Oliver Kahn, who is officially on sick leave. Five minutes after the end of the game, the news leaks out, which is a bit surprising at least at the moment and in this drastic form: Kahn and Salihamidzic are out of work. Immediately. Not even the eleventh title in a row can save her. Kahn’s former deputy Jan-Christian Dreesen (55) becomes CEO.

The shot Kahn reports via Twitter that he is not ill – but that the club has banned him from traveling to Cologne. And via Sky: “It’s the worst day of my life.” One that has to reverberate for a long time.

100 kilometers north of Cologne the stark contrast: at the moment there is a total depression in Dortmund. After the final whistle, the black and yellow bees lie on the grass like dead bees – hammer instead of honey. Only a win against Mainz would have made BVB champion in any case. Only Gregor Kobel (25) stands up and pats his fellow sufferers on the back.

Tears at Kobel’s girlfriend

Moments later, the Swiss goalkeeper has to comfort his girlfriend, who is crying and staring at his shoulder. He is silent, motionless. Only the coach can find the right words at this point. “It hurts so much – we only missed one goal,” says Edin Terzic, struggling with fate: “I feel a huge emptiness and great disappointment inside me.”

With tears in his eyes, he uses a metaphor to transform suffering into new pleasure. “This match day will hurt us for a long time. We were so close today. But no matter how great the pain is today. This is now part of our rocky path. It will be motivation for tomorrow. We will rise again.”

Source : Blick