Bayern Munich has come a big step closer to the 30th German championship. It’s hard to imagine that the eternal champion will let himself be deprived of the title after the 1-0 win in Dortmund. kicker reporter Thomas Hennecke comments on the league summit in the Signal-Iduna-Park. It was 8:21 pm on Tuesday evening when Hansi Flick raised his arms. The fact that his team won the summit – and not the BVB, which is actually invulnerable in its own stadium – is thanks to a stroke of genius by Joshua Kimmich and the finely balanced strategy of his coach. Flick’s concept of “minimizing the strengths of the other”, as he had previously stated on “Sky”, worked out perfectly.
The Dortmund attacking power, which had already taken the breath away from so many opponents, the outstanding individuality of Borussia, and the confidence to be good for a goal – there was not much of that in Germany’s classic game. The 1-0 win was the result of a well-functioning Munich defence, which offered Borussia little in the way of support and, in those rare moments of its own instability, benefited from the fact that the hosts made the wrong decisions, failed to find the right rooms and therefore gave Manuel Neuer a largely relaxed evening.
