2024-10-03 02:38:32
FC Bayern suffered its first defeat of the season at Aston Villa. Manuel Neuer doesn’t look good when he concedes. How Munich’s captain assesses the scene.
It happened in the seventh competitive game under new coach Vincent Kompany: record champions Bayern Munich suffered their first defeat of the season.
As usual, the ex-national goalkeeper is well in front of his goal when a long ball from Aston Villa is played into Bayern’s half. Neuer stands on the edge of the penalty area and decides to run towards the ball in order to intercept it. When he realizes that he won’t get to the ball before Villa attacker Duran, who is in a running duel with Dayot Upamecano, he stops and wants to rush back into his empty goal. But by then it’s already too late.
Duran recognized Neuer’s positional error and looked for the finish with his first contact. He hits the ball optimally. The ball flies past Neuer, who is stretching in vain, and jumps into the goal. The winning goal for the Premier League team from Birmingham.
“Maybe I can stand two meters further back,” Neuer later admitted on the DAZN microphone, but also said: “He (Duran, editor) hit the ball very well. Anyone who has seen all of our games so far, He knows very well that I played like that in every game, so that’s a bit of our game, especially when in possession of the ball, and also against the ball.” Kompany demands this style of play from him and he doesn’t believe that this will change now, Neuer continued.
This time, however, the risky style of play went wrong and led to the first bankruptcy under Kompany. Neuer said about the team’s performance: “I don’t think we played a bad game, but not our best either. Still, we had our chances, but we didn’t put them in the goal.