Just when Bayern Munich thought things couldn't get any worse after their 5-0 loss to Monchengladbach, German news outlet Bild released a damming assessment of each player's performance.
Bayern Munich were knocked
out of the DFB-Pokal Cup in the second round on Wednesday night after suffering
a heavy defeat to Monchengladbach at Borussia-Park.
Monchengladbach became the
first team to score three goals in the first 21 minutes against Bayern in a
German Cup game and the first team to have scored five past the Bavarians
since Borussia Dortmund's 5-2 win in the 2012 German Cup final.
As a result, news outlet Bild
ripped into the Bundesliga giants - rating each player's performance out of
six.
Their rating system is on a
one-to-six scale, with one being the top score and six being the worst.
Bild gave six players out of
the 15 players that featured in Wednesday's clash a 6/6 rating - the worst
possible score they could receive.
German super-stars Robert
Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry were among those that received 6/6, while
Thomas Muller was given a 5/6.
Bild also rated Bayern
goalkeeper Manuel Neuer a 4/6 after Kouadio Kone took just 80 seconds to score
Monchengladbach's first goal.
Nevertheless, Bild recognized
that Alphonso Davies' sloppy pass was the cause of the goal and
subsequently rated him 6/6.
Speaking of his performance,
the German news outlet said Davies was defensively 'very bad'.
Lucas Hernandez was another
player who received a 6/6 rating after he took down Breel Embolo in the box to
give away a penalty.
When speaking
about Hernandez, Bild said it was a 'nice day, but not a nice evening'.
When claiming he had a nice
day, they were referring to the fact he had seen a six-month prison sentence
suspended on Wednesday morning.
However, their comment about
the evening was related to the fact that Ramy Bensebaini sent Neuer the
wrong way to put Bayern Munich 3-0 down within the first 21 minutes of the game
after he gave away a penalty.
Bild also ripped into manager
Julian Nagelsmann and his assistant coach Dino Topmoeller for their role in
preparing the team for the occasion.
They also criticized the pair
for allowing Bayern to 'sleep' through the first half.
Nagelsmann - who was
contributing to the Bavarian's performance from home after testing positive for
Covid-19 - has come under fire for Bayern's recent performances despite the
fact his team have scored a record 33 times in their first nine league games.
The German manager is
expected to receive more criticism for Wednesday's performance against
Monchengladbach as it put an end to Bayern Munich's 85-game scoring streak
- the longest run of any team in Europe's top-five leagues during the time.
Bild were not the only ones
to be shocked after the game. Bayern's sports director Hasan Salihamidzic
said: 'I am absolutely shocked. We were just not there. We did not win a
single tackle or challenge in the entire first half.
'Everything that could go
wrong went wrong. Gladbach did it really well. We were absolutely not there. A
blackout, it should not have happened to us in such a way.'
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