Champions League | FC Bayern breathes: finally "Mia San Mia"

The shooting festival against Salzburg ensures FC Bayern Munich for relief. However, the initial ignition is not from Robert Lewandowski and its Hattrick.

• Genial Lewandowski introduces success of FC Bayern
• Bayern DNA at the right time

It would have been easy to sing lobes hymns on Robert Lewandowski al1. And actually, coach Julian Nagelsmann after the spectacular 7: 1 (4: 0) of FC Bayern against RB Salzburg the importance of the Goal Hunter when moving into the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and not only because of its record hat tricks. "Overall, he played very well, teams, good runways, a lot of coaching," he said.

More importantly, Nagelsmann seemed that he "one of the keys", and maybe even the key scene of the game emphasized: a "world-class defense campaign", executed - from an attacker. It was just the third minute ran, since Kingsley Coman hurried to afared defense in full sprint to help, with a uncompromising grasse he waited in the highest distress of the well-safe counterplace of the Salzburg by Nicolas Capaldo.

As "incredibly" called Nagelsmann Coman's commitment, he emphasized, "with which greed, which power power he makes" - and he gave to understand that this action had the character of an initial ignition.

"If you're behind," he said, "you're coming to think a bit." Even the past games including the 1: 1 in Salzburg had shaken the self-image of the unstable Munich.

Genial Lewandowski introduces success of FC Bayern

The two-time scorer Thomas Müller (54./83.) Also gladly admitted that a "certain tension" has prevailed before the game. "This game," he said at "Amazon Prime", "was enormously important." How important? "If we leave," said Müller, "but we have three very sad months ago", because "then would have been turned over from the outside and inside the one or the other stone - and rightly".

But that was followed by Comans Grasse with signal effect a sometimes very nice offensive spectacle, in which Lewandowski had already achieved a Hattrick until the 23rd minute - this was faster, this was no one of the kick-off in the Champions League. The first two hits (12th and 21st) resulted from faulerfäntern, which had provoked the world footballer himself, at the third (23rd) he used a mistake of the Salzburg.

And so 25,000 sometimes amazingly silent spectators developed a game, which the returned captain Manuel new promptly high jazzed: "That was a statement, an exclamation point," he stressed.

Bayern DNA at the right time

At least he and his fellow players seemed, as if they had finally recalled their DNA in the face of this game, at her "Mia San Mia", which was a hollow phrase lavishly.

Yes, emphasized Müller, "this importance was felt, we were gallous, we were there". Also Nagelsmann found: "It is important that we are there when it comes to it," and the game against Salzburg was "again such a moment".

A moment was rounded off by the hits of Serge Gnabry (31.) and Leroy Sané (85th) and in which Bayern played "incredibly good football" after their coach.

And yet: The game against Salzburg remains for the time being only a snapshot - albeit one who makes hope. "If we are so greedy and aggressive," said Nagelsmann, "can also work against the best teams in Europe." Mind you: he said "can", not "will".