In front of a packed Allianz Arena FC Bayern easily saw off 1. FSV Mainz 05 to bring yet another Championship-winning season to a close. It had been a tough and at times painful couple of months for Die Roten, but everybody was determined to end things on a high with the presentation of the Meisterschale and the obligatory Bierdusche. Continue reading FCB v 1. FSV Mainz 05
With no more interest in the cup competitions and the Bundesliga title already sewn up, FC Bayern took on relegation-threatened SC Freiburg in their penultimate game of the season. Despite the bright start and the lion’s share of possession Pep Guardiola’s side were handed a stinging blow right at the death, with their desperate opponents grabbing a last-minute winner through former FC Bayern striker Nils Petersen. Continue reading SC Freiburg v FCB
Following their 3-0 defeat at the Camp Nou, Bayern fans had been hoping for a Champions’ League miracle against Barcelona – and while the fires of hope would be stoked early on we all knew it was never going to be. Two away goals for the Catalans would quell any chance of a comeback, and it was left to Pep Guardiola’s side to see out their campaign on a high – duly achieved with a stirring performance to maintain their perfect home record in this year’s competition. Continue reading FCB v FC Barcelona
Having had just a couple of days to lick their wounds after their 3-0 Champions’ League defeat in Barcelona, a deflated FC Bayern returned to Bundesliga action to take on Bavarian rivals FC Augsburg, hungry for points in their mission to secure a place in Europe. With Bayern more focussed on things to come and avoiding further injuries and Augsburg eyeing the prize, it was always going to be a tough encounter for Pep Guardiola’s men. Continue reading FCB v FC Augsburg
Three quarters of the way into their Champions’ League semi-final against Barcelona, FC Bayern looked good to take a decent result back to Bavaria. Pep Guardiola’s side had kept out everything that their opponents could throw at them, and as the clock ticked past the seventy-five minute mark all was well. Then, two crushing blows in the space of three minutes turned the tie on its head, with a crippling – and completely avoidable – third goal coming in injury time. Continue reading FC Barcelona v FCB
This was the game nobody really wanted to play. With the Bundesliga all wrapped up with four games to spare and the Champions’ League semi-final against Barcelona just around the corner, injury-hit FC Bayern presented an unfamiliar lineup with a number of new faces and tried their best, only to fall short against an enterprising Leverkusen outfit chasing a coveted automatic spot in next season’s Champions’ League group phase. Continue reading Bayer 04 Leverkusen v FCB
Sometimes you just have to disappear for a while, clear your head and hope against all hope that it was all just a bad dream. But after rubbing your eyes on more than one occasion and even dunking your head in a basin of freezing cold water, the horrible vision still remains. On the evening of Tuesday 28th March 2015, FC Bayern München had one of those evenings. That’s right. One of those evenings. An evening where not just one or even a couple of marginal decisions went the wrong way, but the sort of evening where everything spun into a confusing and uncontrollable mixture of horror and despair. Continue reading FCB v Borussia Dortmund
One expected a comedown after the midweek Champions’ League quarter-final heroics against FC Porto, and this was clear as FC Bayern took on strugglers Hertha BSC at a packed Allianz Arena. The tight 1-0 win was enough to send Bayern fifteen points clear of second-placed VfL Wolfsburg with four matches remaining, and the Wolves’ defeat by the same score in Mönchengladbach was enough to ensure a record-extending twenty-fourth Bundesliga crown (and twenty-fifth German championship in all) for Die Roten. Continue reading FCB v Hertha BSC
Backs against the wall. Under pressure. Slap bang in the middle of an epic injury crisis, the week after the shock departure of the long established medical team. Staring Champions’ League elimination squarely in the face less than a week after one of the most miserable displays in years. The buildup could not have been any worse for FC Bayern München as they prepared to take on FC Porto in a make or break second leg. Continue reading FCB v FC Porto
This past week has seen things crashing down all over the place at FC Bayern – from the error-riddled defeat at FC Porto through to the internal fallout resulting in and following the sudden resignation of long-time doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt. Skipper Philipp Lahm being ruled out with a bout of gastroenteritis certainly didn’t help matters, and with morale lower than it has been for a long time coach Pep Guardiola was left to pick his starting lineup from an even more depleted squad. Continue reading TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v FCB