Bundesliga matchday 6 has come and gone, with Bayern Munich only managing a 3-3 draw against a high-flying Eintracht Frankfurt side. Coming off the back of a midweek defeat to Aston Villa in the Champions League and a draw to Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, Bayern has gone three consecutive games without a win. Hoping to bounce out of their recent slump, the Bundesliga record champions approached the match in Frankfurt with an attacking mindset, sending a barrage of quality attempts toward the opposition goal.
After Kim Min-jae's strike hit the back of the net on fifteen minutes, one would be forgiven for thinking that Bayern was on the road to an easy victory. Speaking to DAZN after the match (captured via @iMiaSanMia ), Thomas Müller touched on Bayern’s promise in the early phases of the game, saying, “I thought the first 20 minutes were even better than on Wednesday [against Aston Villa]. In my opinion, we have to win this game.
We would probably win 13 out of 15 such games and I think we showed a good way of playing. It was a pleasure to see how we tied down the opponent because we had a lot of chances to score.” Müller isn’t just coping with the result by sharing these thoughts, as the underlying data corroborates the narrative Müller is pushing.
Bayern maintained possession 74% of the time and created 2.06 expected goals across 24 shots compared to Frankfurt’s 1.24 expected goals from six shots ( FotMob ).
Not one to overlook a good performance, Mü.