Such a game needs a punchline, and this game, probably the best of the season so far, had one. Dortmund's youngster Jadon Sancho chipped Bayern's Franck Ribéry from the ball before Borussia Dortmund started the attack at a breathtaking pace, at the end Paco Alcácer scored the 3-2 victory against Bayern.
About Sancho said his teammate Axel Witsel afterwards that this does not like the tasks on the defensive. He did not reveal a secret with it. It was a key point in Bayern's plan to take advantage of Sancho's weakness. David Alaba and Ribéry came over and over again on their left side. Sancho sometimes looked desperate at the whole aftermath. He never gave up.
So in the 73rd minute he again chased Ribéry, who later confirmed to Dortmund coach Lucien Favre: "He was crazy in the ball recapture, so positively crazy." This time, however, it went negatively crazy: Sancho won the ball, which was a few seconds later in the Munich goal.
Bayern lost for the third time this season, despite having twice led. It sounded like a provocation that a medium still wrote of the "best seasonal performance". However, it was the club's own channel.
Mix of modesty and window dressing
With a mixture of new, appropriate modesty and eye-wiping, Munich reacted to a game that CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge "wants to take as a kind of benchmark": Rummenigge, who suffers a beer shower after the third BVB goal in the stands had to let go, added: "It was important that we have set a sign today .. We have seen that Bayern Munich still has a very good team."
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Photo gallery: The best game of the seasonA video supporting this thesis for the match in Dortmund would take more than 45 minutes to complete, but it would not be enough for a feature film length. This confirmed Manuel Neuer, who was much more critical than Rummenigge. "It really burned," said the goalkeeper about many situations in his box where "someone always felt free".
These situations occurred increasingly in the second half, which was much weaker from the perspective of Bayern than the first. "The coach said in the break that they can not keep the pace over two halves, but we already," revealed Dortmund's Manuel Akanji the presumption Favres, which should be confirmed.
Hummels went ill in the game
When the almost three years younger team of BVB attacked on the average after the break, was safer on the ball and thus much more able to pick up speed in the attack third, it had happened to the Bayern. On the punch line that the 18-year-old Sancho the 35-year-old Ribéry takes the ball in front of the crucial goal, would have come to mediocre screenwriter writers.
"I do not think it was a force problem," Mats Hummels objected to the thesis that the slightly older men had overstimped a bit in their first half. He himself was ill, said the center-back with, but did not want to take the game against his former club.
A miserable Hummels, who only came off the field after two serious mistakes in the 66th minute, and Jérôme Boateng, who has been struggling for months with athletic deficits, formed the central defense, the much younger Niklas Süle initially sat only on the bench. From there came after the 3: 2 of BVB Renato Sanche for Serge Gnabry, who was significantly involved in both Munich matches.
Coach Niko Kovac surprised with the formation and a change. James Rodríguez stayed on the bench. The Colombian was there the only player of upscale international format. No punch line.
Borussia Dortmund - Bayern Munich 3: 2 (0: 1)
0: 1 Lewandowski (26)
1: 1 Reus (penalty, 49.)
1: 2 Lewandowski (52.)
2: 2 Reus (67.)
3: 2 Alcácer (73.)
Dortmund: Hitz - Piszczek, Akanji, Zagadou, Hakimi - Weigl (46th Dahoud), Witsel - Sancho, Reus, Bruun Larsen (82nd Delaney) - Gotze (59th Alcácer)
Bayern: New - Kimmich, Boateng, Hummels (65th Süle), Alaba - Martínez, Goretzka - Gnabry (74th Sanches), Müller (82nd Wagner), Ribéry - Lewandowski
Spectators: 81,360 (sold out)
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
Yellow cards: Akanji, Hitz, Weigl / Ribéry, Süle, Wagner