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Harry Kane’s Injury Time Goal Saves Bayern Munich Against RB Leipzig | Football News

Harry Kane scored two goals in the second-half, including an injury time winner, to snatch Bayern Munich a 2-1 home win over RB Leipzig on Saturday, ending the side's worst run since 2015. Bayern had lost three matches in a row for the first time in nine years before the club announced this week that coach Thomas Tuchel would leave in the summer. Bayern captain Manuel Neuer told Sky "it might seem a bit like the good old Bayern luck, but we deserved to win today." The win reduced the gap to leaders Bayer Leverkusen to eight points with 11 games left.Neuer said Tuchel's exit "cast a bad ...
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Bayern Munich’s Thomas Tuchel Gamble To Face Immediate Test Against RB Leipzig | Football News

Struggling Bayern Munich's shock decision to part ways with coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the season will be put to the test in Saturday's clash with RB Leipzig. On Wednesday, Bayern announced Tuchel would leave the Bavarian capital in the summer, seemingly staking out a middle ground between firing the coach immediately or pledging to stick with him despite poor recent results. The Bayern bosses made the call after Sunday's 3-2 loss to Bochum left them eight points behind Xabi Alonso's unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen, with 12 matches to play this season.  Bayern hopes the announcement wi...
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Thomas Tuchel To Leave Bayern Munich At The End Of The Season: Club | Football News

Bayern Munich said Wednesday they would part ways with manager Thomas Tuchel at the end of the season, as the reigning German champions struggled to stay in the Bundesliga title race. "We came to the mutual decision to end our collaboration in the summer," Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen said in a statement, following talks with Tuchel. The coach, whose contract was set to run through to 2025, would exit the club on June 30 this year. "Until then, my coaching team and I will of course continue to do everything we can to ensure maximum success," Tuchel said in the statement. Bayern woul...
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Title ‘Not So Realistic’ Says Thomas Tuchel After Bayern Munich’s ‘Horror’ Week | Football News

Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel said winning this season's Bundesliga title was "not so realistic right now" after a loss on Sunday which left Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen eight points clear at the top. The 3-2 defeat at lowly Bochum was Bayern's third reverse in a row, after a 3-0 thumping by Alonso's league leaders last weekend and a 1-0 midweek loss at Lazio in the Champions League. The German champions have not lost three matches in a row since 2015, a run which included semi-final defeats to Barcelona in the Champions League and Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup.  Asked if hi...
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Bundesliga: Bayern Munich Suffer Nine-Year Low In Shock Loss vs Bochum, Slip Eight Points Off Title Pace | Football News

Bayern Munich slumped to a shock 3-2 loss at lowly Bochum on Sunday, suffering a third successive defeat for the first time since 2015 and leaving them eight points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga title race. The result followed a 3-0 league defeat to Leverkusen last weekend and a 1-0 loss against Lazio in the Champions League as coach Thomas Tuchel came under renewed pressure. Tuchel was bullish after the match, saying "the loss today wasn't justified. We were extremely unlucky." Bayern were also reduced to 10 men with 13 minutes remaining when Dayot Upamecano elbowed Kevin S...
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‘No Hiding’ For Bayern Munich As Bayer Leverkusen Threaten To Pull Away | Football News

Bayern Munich could be as many as eight points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen when they travel to Bochum on Sunday after one of the club's worst weeks in recent memory. Bayern were outclassed in Saturday's 3-0 loss in Leverkusen, before losing 1-0 to Lazio on Wednesday -- their first defeat in an opening leg in the Champions League last 16 since 2012. Speaking afterwards in Rome on Wednesday, England captain Harry Kane said "we're in a difficult spell, there's no hiding that." A "frustrated and angry" Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel said he was "at a loss" to explain the "huge drop i...
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‘Hungry’ Bayern Munich Turn Focus To Lazio After Bayer Leverkusen Humbling | Football News

Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer insisted on Tuesday there is no leadership problem at the club after a stinging defeat by Bayer Leverkusen put their long reign as German champions under threat. Reeling from a 3-0 humiliation at the hands of Leverkusen, Bayern head to Lazio on Wednesday knowing only a deep run in the Champions League will salvage their season. Bayern have won the Bundesliga each of the past 11 years but now trail Leverkusen by five points, and Neuer said it is not just up to the senior players to turn the situation around.  "We have a lot of leaders in our own ranks,"...
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Bayer Leverkusen Thump Bayern Munich To Seize Control Of Bundesliga Title Race | Football News

Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen took control of the Bundesliga title race on Saturday, thoroughly outclassing Bayern Munich in a 3-0 home win to go five points clear at the top of the table. Munich-born defender Josip Stanisic, on loan from Bayern, scored the opener in the 18th minute and Alex Grimaldo added another early in the second half. Jeremie Frimpong grabbed a third in injury time, scoring on the counter after Manuel Neuer came up for a Bayern corner, with Leverkusen rounding off an emphatic victory in style as they chase the club's first German title. Bayern had few answers agai...