Bayern Munich fell to a shock 3-2 defeat towards lowly Bochum on Sunday, struggling a 3rd consecutive defeat for the primary time since 2015.
This left them eight factors behind Bayer Leverkusen within the Bundesliga title race.
The consequence adopted a 3-0 defeat to Leverkusen final weekend and a 1-0 loss to Lazio within the Champions League as coach Thomas Tuchel got here underneath renewed stress.
Tuchel was optimistic after the match, saying: “Right now's loss was not justified. We had been very unfortunate.”
Bayern had been additionally diminished to 10 males with 13 minutes remaining when Dayot Upamecano elbowed Kevin Stoeger within the penalty space, picked up a second yellow, gave away a penalty and noticed crimson for the second recreation in a row.
Stoeger fired the penalty previous Manuel Neuer to offer Bochum a 3–1 lead.
Harry Kane scored with three minutes remaining to get Bayern again into the match and even had an opportunity to equalize late on, however aimed a tame header straight at Bochum goalkeeper Manuel Riemann.
Bayern had crushed Bochum 7-0 in three of the previous 5 conferences and the guests scored early, Jamal Musiala firing in after 14 minutes.
It was the German champion's first purpose in additional than three hours of soccer.
Kane had a chance shortly afterwards when he was one-on-one with Riemann, however skied his shot into the stands.
Tuchel complained about his facet's waste in assault, telling DAZN: “We had greater than sufficient high-quality probabilities that these guys would usually throw away.”
The house facet absorbed waves of Bayern stress earlier than Takuma Asano equalized after 38 minutes, firing a low shot previous Neuer on a counter-attack.
Simply six minutes later, Bayern fell behind, Keven Schlotterbeck heading in a nook.
The guests turned the screws early within the second half, however the match was delayed for 12 minutes as a result of fan protests towards the Bundesliga's funding plan, earlier than Bochum held agency towards the German giants.
With simply over 10 minutes remaining, Upamecano collided with Stoeger who was contesting a nook kick and was despatched off.
Within the pouring rain, Stoeger hit his penalty low and exhausting to the suitable, previous Neuer's outstretched hand.
Bayern's teenage striker Mathys Tel arrange Kane after 87 minutes, bringing Bayern again into the match, however then Kane squandered a golden alternative to seize a last level.
Stoeger stated: “It's an enormous aid. We thought we may get some extent and we obtained three.”
“I feel all of Bochum is happy with the efficiency we now have achieved.”
Bochum coach Thomas Letsch added: “It’s particularly good to beat Bayern as they’re a group full of expertise.”
Freiburg, Frankfurt draw
Earlier on Sunday, Freiburg striker Michael Gregoritsch scored within the last minute to offer his facet a 3-3 draw towards Eintracht Frankfurt.
Two objectives from Ansgar Knauff, each initiated by the spectacular Omar Marmoush, who was additionally on the scoresheet, put Frankfurt heading in the right direction for 3 factors.
Nevertheless, the guests didn’t clear a nook and the 1.93 meter tall Gregoritsch headed previous Kevin Trapp to carry Freiburg degree for the third and last time.
A pissed off Trapp advised DAZN: “We're capturing ourselves within the foot.”
“It went backwards and forwards, which is a disgrace for us. We may have gotten extra out of it.”
Marmoush from Frankfurt scored first, however Ritsu Doan from Freiburg hit again three minutes later, after half an hour.
Marmoush's wonderful cross allowed Knauff to attain on the counter, however by half-time the match was degree once more due to a penalty from Italian midfielder Vincenzo Grifo.
Knauff put Frankfurt forward once more after 72 minutes earlier than Gregoritsch got here to the rescue.
In one other match that was interrupted as a result of followers throwing objects onto the pitch, Knauff saved Frankfurt within the ninth minute of additional time when he cleared a bouncing ball off the road.
The purpose places Frankfurt 4 forward of Werder Bremen in sixth place, the final European spot.
AFP
