Advantage Borussia! Shock Bayern defeat to RB Leipzig hands. WHAT OCCURED?In their penultimate match of the season on Saturday, Bayern was a point ahead of Dortmund, and it seemed like business as usual when Serge Gnabry gave the home team the lead after 25 minutes. However, Leipzig came back in the second half, drawing level through Konrad Laimer, before Dominik Szoboszlai and Christopher Nkunku each scored penalties to secure an away victory.
Advantage Borussia! Shock Bayern Munich defeat to RB Leipzig hands
If Dortmund defeats Augsburg on Sunday, they will move two points ahead at the top of the table and be on track to win their first league championship since 2012.
The crucial second goal may have felt like some payback for Nkunku, who was denied a fair chance to thrive under Tuchel while the two were teammates at Paris Saint-Germain. Nkunku ultimately made the decision to depart from the French team and move to Leipzig, where he has developed into a star and scored one of the goals that might have destroyed Tuchel’s prospects of winning the Bundesliga.
The tenure of the German coach at Bayern has not gone as expected.In March, he took over for the fired Julian Nagelsmann, whose squad was still in the running for the Bundesliga, Champions League, and DFB-Pokal. They may possibly miss out on the league title for the first time in ten years because they have now been eliminated from both the domestic and European cups.
WHAT WILL BAYERN DO NEXT? Before playing Koln the following Saturday in the season’s last game, the Bavarian giants will hope that Dortmund makes a mistake on Sunday.
