The Bayern Munich consolidated its leadership in the Bundesliga upon winning 1 to 0 on your visit to Hertha Berlin, this Friday in the match that opened the 20th matchday.
The Bavarian team will therefore travel very calmly to Qatar to play the Club World Cup, where on Monday they will face the Egyptian Al Ahly, the African champion, in the semifinals, in search of a final that would face them on Thursday of next week the Brazilian Palmeiras or the Mexican Tigres, who play the other semifinal on Sunday.
But before heading to Doha, the current champion of Germany and Europe had this visit to the Berlin Olympiastadion.
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The French Kingsley Coman he decided in the 21st minute, with a shot from outside the area following an assist from Thomas Müller.
In the 12th, with the initial draw to zero, the Polish Robert Lewandowski had missed a penalty. The winner of the last FIFA ‘The Best’ could not score in this match and continues with 24 goals in the table of top scorers, so he could not advance this time towards his goal of breaking the record for goals in the same season of the German league, which has the mythical Gerd Müller with 40 from the 1971-1972 campaign.
Coman’s goal was enough for Bayern to distance itself as the leader of the German championship, now adding 48 points, provisionally putting themselves with 10 points more than the second, RB Leipzig, who on Saturday visits bottom Schalke 04.
Bayern’s victory puts pressure not only on Leipzig, but on the teams that come from behind.
For example, Bayer Leverkusen (5º) y Borussia Dortmund (6º), two greats who are not going through their best moment, are now 16 points behind the Munich players, awaiting their respective matches at the weekend, on Saturday against Stuttgart (10th) and Freiburg (9th).
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The Bayern achieves a fifth consecutive victory in the German league.
They have won all their games since their bad week in mid-January, when they lost a Bundesliga defeat at Mönchengladbach with an elimination in the German Cup against Holstein Kiel (2nd division). The Hansi Flick team reacted perfectly to that unexpected slip.
For its part, Hertha Berlin (15th) is in a very delicate position.
If Arminia Bielefeld (16th) scores on Sunday at home against Werder Bremen (11th), the team from the capital would fall to the second to last place, the position that forces them to play a playoff for permanence.