Bundesliga season ends: There are no storms in the 4th competition, Bayern wins amid controversy

Sports Weekly All-Media Special Reporter Huang Sijun

The finale of the Bundesliga regular season on Saturday afternoon was just a little turbulent, without storm. Dortmund did make a big move, crossing the line with five consecutive wins, "joining" with Frankfurt to squeeze out Freiburg out of the top 4, saving the Champions League qualification. On the other end of the standings, although Bayern beat Hoffenheim 4-0 away with a very sportsmanship, Heidenheim himself was not good at it. He failed to create a miracle of relegation after losing 1-4 to Werder Bremen at home and could only survive through relegation play-offs. His opponent will be Elfsberg, the third place in the Bundesliga. Cologne returned to the Bundesliga as a champion with Hamburg.

Dortmond refused to repeat the same mistakes

The biggest highlight of the last round of the Bundesliga is undoubtedly Frankfurt (57 points, 65-45 goals), Freiburg (55 points, 48-50 goals) and Dortmund (54 points, 68-51 goals) who ranked 3rd to 57 points, 65-45 goals), Freiburg (55 points, 48-50 goals) and Dortmund (54 points, 68-51 goals) who ranked 3rd to 57 points for the last two Champions League tickets. As Freiburg and Frankfurt snipe clam fight, Dortmund actually did his duty well - the net difference between Holsteinkier, who has been relegated, is 2 goals, preferably 3 goals or more, so there is no need to look at others' faces. But Dortmund encountered a similar situation two years ago. At that time, as long as you defeat Mainz 05, which is 4 consecutive defeats at home, Terzici's team could end Bayern's 10 consecutive Bundesliga championships. And the story that followed, the yellow and black fans never want to review again.

This time, Dortmund ushered in a dream start. Less than two minutes into the game, veteran Holtby, who staged a farewell match in Kiel, tripped from the back and inserted into the left side of the penalty area to receive the ball, giving a penalty. Gilasi, who missed a penalty when he was visiting Hoffenheim three weeks ago, stood in front of the penalty spot again as captain Emre Jan sat on the bench. Two years ago, Dortmund No. 9 Allele missed the penalty that could have quickly tied 1-1 in the 19th minute. This time, Gilasi, who took the No. 9 jersey from Alai, refused to repeat the same mistake. Although goalkeeper Dene saved the ball in the right direction, Gilasi's shot was both angled and powerful, and he flew steadily into the left side of the goal, 1-0! At this time, the match between Freiburg and Frankfurt was filled with smoke due to fans' fireworks, and there was no kick-off yet, which also means that Dortmund surpassed Freiburg in the real-time standings and rose to fourth place.

Girasi scored the first penalty kick just 3 minutes into the opening game.

Immediately afterwards, Kiel gave another gift: Carl Johnson, the last defensive player, slipped the tackle and knocked down Adeyemi who broke through quickly, and received a direct red card without any suspense. In just 9 minutes, Dortmund ushered in double leads in scores and numbers. However, Kiel unify his mind because he beat one less person and immediately retreated, making Dortmund more and more uncomfortable. At the same time, Freiburg suddenly broke the deadlock and took advantage of the offensive opportunity of out-of-bounds ball attacking. Japanese winger Anri Dora, who had a rumor to have an affair with Dortmund, opened the first record in the 27th minute. This goal not only allowed Freiburg to temporarily surpass Frankfurt and rise to third place, but also made Dortmund, who was at a disadvantage in goal difference, squeezed back to fifth place by Frankfurt.

In the 39th minute, Kiel suddenly launched an attack from the left. Bernhardson and Holtby made a wonderful second-by-three-stroke and hit the wall to cooperate and then inserted into the lower bottom of the penalty area and passed to the middle. The unguarded Shuto Machino's low shot with his left foot was blocked by Kober who moved in time, which shocked the nearly 80,000 yellow and black fans in Iduna Signal Park were covered in cold sweat! At the end of the first half, Dortmund continued to rank fifth. But at the break, good news suddenly came from Freiburg: Knauf from Dortmund performed a wonderful solo performance. He received Schibbean's header on the edge of the penalty area, and volleyed the ball with his right heel and passed Linhart. The latter hurriedly turned around and cleared the ball. Knauf inserted into the penalty area and stopped the ball with his right foot and then equalized 1-1 with his right foot. At this time, the game time had already reached the fourth minute of stoppage time in the first half. Frankfurt returned to third place in the instant ranking, while Freiburg was surpassed by Dortmund and fell to fifth place.

Frankfurt won third place and UEFA Champions League tickets.

Perhaps inspired by Kenauf's equalization, Dortmund scored a long-range goal less than 2 minutes into the second half. This is a goal that completely untie Dortmund's psychological shackles, and the "Four Battle" staged by the two places at the same time has also entered the final stage ahead of schedule. With Frankfurt scoring two goals in a row after an hour of playing in the game and overturning the score to 3-1, Dortmund is invincible. Felix Nmesha's goal in the 73rd minute helped Dortmund secure the game victory and the UEFA Champions League ticket in advance. In the end, Frankfurt, who reversed Freiburg 3-1, ended his season with third place, Dortmund, who beat Kiel 3-0, won fourth place, and Freiburg ranked fifth, regretfully missed the first European Champions League ticket in team history, but leading the team back to the UEFA Cup was actually a huge success for the "rookie" Yulian Schuster, who only took over the coach's seal from Streich last summer.

Kovage Saves People and Self

Compared with the fledgling Schuster, Niko Kovac, who has been working in the coaching industry for more than ten years, is undoubtedly a bigger winner. This time, the "fire-fighting" not only saved Dortmund, but also saved himself. After all, his coaching in Wolfsburg was quite bad, and his reputation was average when he was dismissed from Monaco. Even though he led Bayern to win the Bundesliga and German Cup double championships in the 2018/19 season, not many people took the credit on him. So, when Dortmund decided to ask Kovac to "put out the fire", there were not many people optimistic about it.

Now, the "scientist" finally feels proud. Since he took over in early February, Dortmund has scored 28 points in 14 league rounds (9 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses), second only to Bayern (31 points) during the same period, leading Freiburg (25 points), Leverkusen (24 points) and Frankfurt (22 points). Naturally, a group of football critics would not miss this opportunity to criticize Bayern. Even Mainz Sports Director Haider expressed dissatisfaction with this. "Although this will not affect us, I think this decision is debatable - especially after the itinerary was cancelled a week ago. In terms of competition, I don't think this is a good thing."

Kimmich rewrites the score to 2-0.

But it turns out that even after playing for half a week, Bayern can still easily beat Hoffenheim, the fourth from the bottom, and fully carry forward the spirit of fair competition. And the three goalkeepers - Kimmich, Gnabry and Kane, all returned from Ibiza. Kimmich said after the game: "I can't understand it at all. We have three days off, we are all adults, we do whatever we want in our spare time, as long as we do our best in training. We did it, and today proved this. This is a positive signal for our entire team, because we really tried our best this season and we can celebrate together." At the season celebration banquet that night, Uli Heness also criticized the media for making a big deal, "These things are typical of our media, they take boring things such as small trips too seriously. It has nothing to do with football."

However, the negative impact of the trip to Ibiza may not be eliminated by a big victory, at least for Bayern Sports Director Eber. German media disclosed that this incident once again exposed that Eberle was incompetent in managing the team, and the Supervisory Board made some remarks about him. In the next few weeks, it is very likely to decide whether Eber can continue to do it, and the current wind direction is quite unfavorable to him. Among the many troubles, Pamecano and Sane are the first to be renewed. Because Sane suddenly changed his agent, Eber had already negotiated with him and the conditions that he had already been invalidated. As expected, the "greedy piranha" Pini Zahavi proposed higher conditions on behalf of Sane. Although the total price is still around 15 million euros, the basic annual salary is believed to have increased from 10 million to 12 million, and the bonus has dropped from 5 million to 5.5 million to about 3 million.

Sane was in a very relaxed mood as he was about to change Mueller's brand.

Before the match against Hoffenheim, German media reported that Sane did not accept the conditions within the validity period of the original quotation, that is, the negotiations between the two sides had failed in a phased manner, and Bayern had a tough position and would not raise the quotation. After the game, Eber confirmed: "He said today that he did not want to accept our offer in this form. There is no conflict between us, and the offer is there. We have expressed our willingness to (who wants to renew his contract). At least in my opinion, you can feel that Leroy wants to stay. Now, let's see what will happen in the next few days." As for Sane's statement that he is about to leave Bayern, Heness scoffed, "Has he refused? Why do you always guess like this? He didn't tell us he is leaving. You have to understand that we will only talk after the decision is made. No one told us he is leaving. If he leaves, we will say something."

Not only did he encounter obstacles in renewal, Sane also ran to Monaco to attend a charity event held by his friend Krell the day before the game, and attended a party after the event, and did not return to Munich until the morning of the day of the game. So he continued to sit on the bench in Sinsheim. An hour later, Sane and Kane both made their debut, replacing Coman and Muller. Mueller ended his 503rd game and is likely to be the last Bundesliga match. When Kane contributed one pass and one shot after the appearance, he won the first substitute goal since the Bundesliga and finally became the Bundesliga scorer again with 26 goals, Sane wasted a one-on-one opportunity just before the end of the game, making Bayern missed the third time in the Bundesliga 100 goals.

Kane once again became the Bundesliga scorer with 26 goals.

Although Sane is in a state that is hot and cold this season, he still significantly set the Bundesliga career goal record with 11 goals, ranking fourth in the team's scorer list, and his competitive value is higher than that of Koman and Gnabry. Of course, another fact is: Olisse has firmly occupied Sane's favorite right winger position in just one season. In the final match with Hoffenheim, the French star scored a first-time record with a exquisite direct free kick, assisted Kimmich to expand the score, contributing 1 goal and 1 assist in four consecutive rounds. In the final season of the Bundesliga, he scored 12 goals and 15 assists, winning the assisting king and best rookie. If the Champions League and the German Cup are included, his total goals and total assists happen to be the same as his jersey number, both of which are 17. Kimmich praised: "When you see how Michael always arrives at the training ground early, how he prepares before training, how long it takes to practice after training, and how he works in the gym, you know that's the reward for all his hard work."

Olisse was undisputedly elected as the Bundesliga's best rookie of the season.

Of course, Olisse still has a lot of room for improvement, especially in the influence of "high-end games". One of the most important values ​​of Sane is his ability to change the situation in key games. For Bayern, reducing the salary and renewing the contract with Sane is definitely more cost-effective than spending a lot of money to sign up for the match. But if Bayern really spends huge sums of money to introduce Wiltz this summer, then Sane may be leaving the main lineup. Despite this, Kimmich hopes Sane stayed, "I talked to him. Looking at how we performed this season, I'm eager to join this team, both as a player in this team and from other clubs. That's one of the reasons why I decided to renew my contract. It's a great club. We have a great coach, a great team-and we played some impressive football."