Berlin: Hit Covid Bayern Munich hit a 2-1 defeat at home for Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday with the Bundesliga leaders who were forced to refer to the emergency team after nine stars tested positive for Coronavirus.
Robert Lewandowski broke out in the league’s 20th goal of the season to give Bayern an initial advantage, but Gladbach responded with two goals in the first four minutes by Florian Neuhaus and Stefan another.
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“Very bitter loss, but we have to swallow defeat.” Mueller refused to blame losing to their drained troops.
“We have a lot of quality in the field and we shouldn’t give so much ownership in the final third of the field,” he said.
“The worst is we don’t put our chances,” Mueller admitted after he was twice as close to reaching the second half equalizer.
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Gladbach climbed three places at the table to 11, but still remained only five points from the bottom of the three bottom.
With so many stars, which was ruled out by Covid, Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann named the squad patcheded with six reserve team players on the bench while Malik Tillman, started his first Bundesliga match.
He was replaced in the second half by Paul Wanner, who at the age of 16, 15 days became the youngest Bayern player to make his German league debut call from the club under 19 clubs.
German star Joshua Kimmich, who missed two months earlier with Covid, played on the back right with another defense midfielder Marcel Sabitzer named to the left of the defense.
Gladbach also missed US defender Joe Scally and Switzerland midfielder Denis Zakaria, both of which also tested Covid’s positive.
Bayern took the lead in the winter condition when Lewandowski hammered unstoppable shots in the post past the goalkeeper Yann Sommer with 18 minutes passed.
Gladbach equalized when visitors did not dismantle the Bayern defense and move the ball to Neuhaus, which fired the Bayern goalkeeper Sven Ulreich.
Manuel Neuer’s first choice was quarantine in the Maldives after testing positive Covid-19 on holidays.
Ulreich was beaten again from the corner immediately after when another other a header with a half an hour played.
Neuhaus and Swiss Breel Embolo striker missed the opportunity to expand Gladbach’s advantage while at the other end Lewandowski cut the position with an amazing shot across the goal.
Bayern dominated the long spell from the second half with Jamal Musial, Mueller and Kimmich everything was close to Lewandowski again crashing into wood, but Gladbach survived.