MUNICH: Champions Bayern Munich eased past Hertha Berlin 3-0 on Wednesday to open up a two-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga and inflict the first defeat for their opponents after three straight wins this season.
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Bayern Munich’s Arjen Robben and Jerome Boateng will not be in the starting lineup for Saturday’s league game at strugglers Hamburg SV, the German champions’ coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Friday.
Bayern are the only team with a flawless record in Germany’s top flight. “We need to be prepared for that”, he said.
“I will rotate things tomorrow – I’ll decide on the line-up after training”.
Labbadia’s players largely frustrated Bayern’s much-vaunted forwards before the break, when they were applauded by the appreciative home fans, and goalkeeper Rene Adler produced a string of saves to keep Hamburg level after the interval.
Second-half goals by Anthony Modeste and Simon Zoller for the visitors sealed Cologne’s victory after Japan’s Yuya Osaka’s first half strike had canceled out Klaas-Jan Huntelaar’s early goal for Schalke.
Chicharito claimed his second midway through the second half, and he sealed the win in injury time.
It’s the latest in a string of off-the-ball incidents involving the Frenchman which had earned him a ticking off from Ancelotti at the start of the season.
“When they are both friends, then it’s just a pleasantry, but I’m not sure how well they know each other”, he added tongue-in-cheek. This season the team Bruno Labbadia scored only 1 point, and the three highest game of the championship has lost a total score of 1: 8 and on the right is in the relegation zone at the start of the 2016/17 championship.
Labbadia’s Hamburg certainly put in the work, covering 115km kilometres in the game – nine more than the Bayern team. I won a lot in my career, but I still want to win.
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“The lads are incredibly disappointed, but did a great job”.
