Bayern Munich regain top spot in Bundesliga with 2-0 win over Hertha Berlin | Football News
Bayern Munich scored twice in the second half to beat bottom club Hertha Berlin 2-0 on Sunday and retake the Bundesliga lead with four matches remaining.
Goals from Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman helped the Bavarians take advantage of Borussia Dortmund’s draw at VfL Bochum on Friday to propel them into top spot on 62 points. Dortmund is in second place at number 61. Union Berlin is third with 56 points, with Freiburg in fourth.
The win also ended Bayern’s four-game winning run in all competitions while offering coach Thomas Tuchel some much-needed respite after his team’s German Cup and Champions League exits in recent weeks.
“I have the feeling at the moment that everyone wants and everyone is aware of the fact that as a team we need to take it up a notch,” said Tuchel, who took over from Julian Nagelsmann at the end of March. needed.”
“A football team has to project a general energy. I’m happy with the way we celebrated, that we didn’t take everything lightly.”
“He was missing a little bit. Sometimes (players) need a little fire, today we needed to be calm because I felt everyone was ready,” he added.
It was one-way traffic from the outset with Bayern trying to find an early goal and Hertha soaking up the pressure and waiting for Dodi Lukebakio to break through.
The Bavarians should have been in front after 45 minutes, but Sadio Mane and Benjamin Pavard both missed the target and Hertha keeper Oliver Christensen pulled off an excellent save to deny Gnabry and Coman from close range.
The hosts finally broke the deadlock in the 69th minute when Joshua Kimmich fired the ball into the path of Gnabry, who beat Christensen with a diving header, much to the relief of the Bayern club owners huddled together in the stands.
10 minutes later another superb pin-point assist from Kimmich found Koman to score Bayern’s second goal.
“It took a little too long to score the first goal,” Tuchel said. “We missed a lot of chances. But we stuck with it, got the first and then the second.”
Hertha are last with 22 points, without a league win in Munich since the 1977/78 season.
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